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centauratlas

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Jan 29, 2003
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Hi!
Since I updated to 15.2, this icon pops up occasionally on one Mac, but not the one the kids use or my wife uses. Ordinarily it is obvious what the issue is, but there is nothing obvious here and the menu items are grayed out. It isn't when I am printing from this Mac, I rarely do so. I checked in settings etc and don't see anything obvious there either. Ditto in the printer software. The other computers and this one are all running the exact same OS version.
Thoughts? :) It isn't anything critical, just annoying since the only thing you can do is close it.

Thanks! (Google and ChatGPT weren't helpful either. I didn't try Apple Intelligence lol)

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Couple ideas.

Go to Settings → General → Login Items and Extensions. Scroll down to the "Allow in the background" section, look for anything printer-related that you don't need, and disable it. (Reboot afterwards, to make sure any currently running background task that you disabled is actually dead.)

Alternatively...

Figure out what process is causing this to pop up. Assuming it doesn't leave an icon in the dock (if it does you can just Right-click → Options → Show in Finder), open up Activity Monitor, go to the CPU tab, sort by % CPU descending, and then interact with the box (maybe click the "gear" button a bunch of times quickly) and hopefully you can spot it near the top of the list of tasks in Activity Monitor. Then, select it click the "i" button at the top to get a window which will show you the full path to this app or whatever.

Then, just, delete it and reboot, and see if it doesn't come back...
 
Thanks. I'll give it a try and see. There is only one thing printer related - for the HP printer, maybe disabling that will stop it. And, yes, there is no icon in the dock.

I'll see! Thanks for the thoughts. :)
 
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