Sébastien Pennec wrote: >> You played with FruitMenu, didn't you? It really is not good >> for your system. Do you know why they call themselves >> 'Unsanity'? > > I've been using FruitMenu for a long time and I haven't > experienced any problems with it... Be it with PowerMail or > with any other app.
Fair enough. There are some reports that unsanity haxies cause problems though. [admittedly, the volume of such reports are surprisingly low considering the feat they achieve.] It might be a system version or a particular version of a haxie, or another utility program, etc or a certain combination of them that can cause problems. At the least, anyone who are willing to play with them should be aware the potential conflict. > >> Check Process Viewer and see the aped [ape demon] running >> behind your back. > > This is a pretty normal thing when you want to install hacks... > And the Unsanity ape is not the only thing that runs "behind > your back", like you say, in Mac OS X... Lots of deamons run, > too, and are pretty usefull for your system... By 'behind your back', I meant ape is running while you're not aware of it. I tried WindowShadeX only briefly when I switched to Jaguar. I used its installer to un-install it but found later that it left some files and a directory in the system. I *think* I saw aped demon kept running after the uninstallation but I'm not sure. > > >Time for reinstalling the system, I'd say. > Not in my oppinion... IMO, When an application does not do what it is supposed to do, the most reliable way to tell whether the application is to be blamed or not is to reinstall the system and start afresh. In classic [<- I hate the word btw] MacOS, we can examine extensions one at a time, but we cannot do that anymore with OSX. In that sense OSX is more fragile than old MacOS and less manageable as a personal computer. -- "Balance the consistency principle with the inconsistency principle."
