At 11:00 AM -0600 1/28/2009, Michael McMurtrey wrote:
>beige G3 running OS 10.4.11.
>
>i downloaded and installed a Yahoo! widget. It did not work as
>advertised, so I uninstalled it following Yahoo!'s own instructions.
>Now, however, every time I start my computer a Yahoo! Konfabulator
>license announcement appears. Clicking the "Cancel" button makes it
>go away, but I want to permanently remove it. A search for
>Konfabulator on my system turns up nothing, and as I have Verizon
>Yahoo! email, I'm afraid to just start arbitrarily deleting Yahoo!
>files. What do I need to delete to get this stinkin' thing off my
>computer?
First, I want to say I'm impressed. Konfabulator was so cool - it's
what Apple ripped off to create Dashboard. Yahoo bought it up and,
well, Defeat Snatched From The Jaws Of Victory! What a slow
annoying POS this "Yahoo! Widgets Engine" be! Pitiful. The Mac
developers at Yahoo should be ashamed.
That being said... The Widgets main installer directly creates these:
/Applications/Yahoo! Widgets.app
/Library/Internet Plug-Ins/Yahoo! Installer 3.plugin
/Library/Receipts/Install Yahoo! Widgets.pkg
~/Library/Application Support/Yahoo! Widget Engine/
If you have Adobe Flash older than 9.0.124, then it updates you to
.124. This should not be the case if you've installed the latest
Security Update onto Tiger, as it contains version 9.0.151.70500.
(Doncha love them there lame Adobe version numbers?!). You can
verify this by doing a get-info on /Library/Internet Plug-Ins/Flash
Player.plugin.
Any Yahoo! Widgets you download & install should be in here:
~/Documents/Widgets
or
~/Documents/Yahoo! Widgets
In the Yahoo! Widgets preferences, if you checked "Launch Yahoo!
Widgets at startup" then you'll have a Login Items entry on your
account created for you also.
Ok... To uninstall this mess...
1. Go into the Yahoo! Widgets preferences and uncheck the launch
item, then press Save.
2. Open System Preferences, Accounts pane, your account, Login Items
tab. Select the "Yahoo! Widgets" item and press the minus button, to
remove that entry, if it exists. Do this on EACH account on your
computer in which you have used Yahoo! Widgets. Close the System
Preferences.
3. Pull down the Yahoo! Widgets menu (that gear thing) and select
Quit. Confirm it by clicking Yes. WAIT until all of Yahoo! Widgets
quits and that menu goes away. Be patient; this step too almost two
minutes on my 300-MHz Smurf. :\
4. Drag to the trash:
/Applications/Yahoo! Widgets.app
/Library/Internet Plug-Ins/Yahoo! Installer 3.plugin
/Library/Receipts/Install Yahoo! Widgets.pkg
~/Library/Application Support/Yahoo! Widget Engine/
~/Library/Preferences/Yahoo! Widget Engine/
~/Library/Preferences/com.yahoo.widgetengine.plist
~/Documents/Widgets
~/Documents/Yahoo! Widgets
Note that the first three are in system-level directories. The
others are within your user account (hence the ~/). You'll need to
eventually trash those same others from any other user accounts in
which you have used Yahoo! Widgets.
At this point, you should be free of the widgetcooties... No need to
reboot. If you want to double-check then launch Activity Monitor and
look for anything with the Yahoo name in it. If you find any
remnants, don't panic - just tell me what they be and we'll figure it
out.
HTH,
- Dan.
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