Sunday 28 June 2015

Uninstall GeekTool for Mac OS X

Uninstall GeekTool Application in Mac OS X – GeekTool removal steps from Mac OS X

Want to uninstall GeekTool apps? Not able to find a way to uninstall GeekTool completely from your Mac Machine? Is your Mac machine giving error after manually uninstalling GeekTool application?

Uninstalling GeekTool in mac is just a different approach than in Windows OS. Windows OS provides a option to uninstall application or application manufactures provides uninstaller with the application. But in Mac OS X there is nothing like uninstall utility. To uninstall the GeekTool you simply need to drag & drop the GeekTool application bundles to trash, that's it. STOP this is not the end there is more to properly uninstalling the GeekTool from your machine.

GeekTool Bundles – The Application Bundle

Drag & Drop leaves the associated files of GeekTool application. Normally, it is thought that all the associated files of a application is saved in the one folder but it is not so. GeekTool supported files & preference files are saved in other location than the GeekTool Package folder. So you need to get all these files deleted manually. Deleting all the left overs of GeekTool is not that easy, you need to find all the location where GeekTool has saved the files. Some of the location where GeekTool would have saved the files are ~/Library/Preferences/[] ~/Library/Application Support/[]
Recommendation You should always use the Award winning tool to Uninstall GeekTool completely from your Mac machine.

Using Finder the remove the GeekTool Application Bundles & Additional Files

To Manually uninstall GeekTool & all associated files
  • Start the Activity monitor to look for the processes running, if you find the GeekTool application process running then quit it, make sure that GeekTool processes is not running.
  • Start finder to look for the GeekTool name.
  • Searching "GeekTool" vs "Contents"
  • Delete all files and folders related to the GeekTool app.
  • A reboot might be necessary to completely remove some apps.

See how Award Winning GeekTool Utility helps you to completely uninstall the application.

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Follow these steps to remove GeekTool app from your Mac:

  1. Download a fully-functional trial version of MacKeeper.
  2. Open the Smart Uninstaller tool and select the application you wish to remove. main-screen
  3. Click Remove to completely uninstall the selected app. icon_1_10
So download now to get rid of GeekTool app from you Mac.


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