Do you want to stop programs from running at startup? There’s an easy way to remove programs from startup and get your Mac to load faster on launch. The fastest way to turn off startup items on Mac is an app like CleanMyMa? Download CleanMyMac for free. Launch the app. Open Optimization tab. Click on Login items. Applications like AppDelete, AppZapper, AppCleaner, and Hazel all automate the removal of an application and its supporting files, no matter where they reside on your Mac’s drive. To uninstall Office for Mac 2011 move the applications to the Trash. Once you've removed everything, empty the Trash and restart your Mac to complete the process. Before you remove Office for Mac 2011, quit all Office applications and make sure there's nothing in Trash that you want to keep.
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Mac users add and remove programs many times over the course of a Mac's lifespan. However, just deleting an application's icon doesn't remove all the program's files, libraries, and information.
As multiple programs are installed and deleted, over time, unnecessary and orphaned files and data collect on a Mac and clutter the system. To ensure optimal disk capacity and performance, Mac users should use a reliable application uninstaller to ensure programs and applications are properly and thoroughly removed when they're no longer needed.
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Some third-party utilities, such as MacPaw's CleanMyMac 3 and CCleaner Professional for Mac, include an application uninstaller. But system maintenance programs typically include additional other system cleaning and, sometimes, health and monitoring components not all users require. And, these more elaborate programs typically cost more, too. CleanMyMac 3 costs $39.95 for a single license, while CCleaner Professional runs $24.95. Pocket Bits'App Uninstaller is solely an application uninstaller and costs only $5.99. (Note: $5.99 is the app's sale price for a limited time—the price is usually $9.99.)
How to use App Uninstaller on your Mac
After purchasing and downloading the 2.6MB App Uninstaller file from Apple's App Store, and upon opening the program for the first time, App Uninstaller requests you confirm the Home and Applications directories (Figure A). Click the Confirm Home Directory and Confirm Applications Directory buttons, and confirm the destination directories by clicking the subsequent Allow Access buttons that appear, to proceed.
Figure A
Next, the program requests you perform a scan of the Applications directory (Figure B). Click the Scan button.
Figure B
The scan operation on my test late 2013 MacBook Pro with an Intel Core i5 CPU and 8 GB RAM took less than 10 seconds to complete.
Upon completing the initial scan, App Uninstaller lists the hard disk's free space, used space, and installed applications. The program also displays the amount of disk space each detected program occupies (Figure C).
Figure C
To remove an application, and all of its corresponding libraries, directories, and information, check the provided circles and click the Remove button (Figure D). To save time, the program permits selecting multiple applications for removal simultaneously.
Figure D
After clicking Remove, the App Uninstaller displays a confirmation screen listing the applications selected for removal, highlighting the corresponding components, and specifying the amount of disk space that will be freed. The App Uninstaller then presents a preliminary screen. Clicking Proceed prompts App Uninstaller to remove the programs.
When finished (in my tests the removal of almost 300MB of files required less than two seconds), the program displays a confirmation window listing the uninstallation results (Figure E). Clicking the supplied Finish button ends the procedure, and the Mac is now free of unneeded and unnecessary applications, libraries and files.
Figure E
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Removing a program from your programs menu won't actually get rid of it. When you install a program, it leaves files all around your system. To get rid of them fully, you have to go through an uninstallation process.
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On Windows, sometimes you can find an uninstaller next to the program in the Start Menu. However, if you can't, all you need to do is:
- Head to Start Menu > Control Panel.
- Click on 'Uninstall a Program' under the 'Programs' section.
- From there, find the program you want to uninstall and click on it. You should see an 'Uninstall' button show up at the top of the pane. Click on that, and it'll open up that program's uninstaller. Hit next, and when it finishes, the program will be completely removed from your system.
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On a Mac, you can just drag a file to the trash and it will delete that program from your machine. It will leave the preference files behind, though, which can be a good thing. If you ever decide to install that program again, it'll keep all your settings from when you first installed it so you don't have to set it up again. If you want to remove all the system files as well, though, apps like AppCleaner will do it for you:
How To Completely Uninstall A Program Mac
- After downloading AppCleaner, start it up and hit the Applications tab. You should see a list of all your installed applications.
- Check the applications you want to remove and hit the Search button. It should come up with a list containing those applications and related system files.
- Hit the delete button to remove all those files from your system. When you're done, just close AppCleaner and empty the trash.
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That's it! You should now be free of those programs, freeing up a bit of hard drive space and a bit of clutter from your programs menu.
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