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<blockquote data-quote="sickink2" data-source="post: 373092" data-attributes="member: 29666"><p>Hey everyone, first post here. I just got my first Mac two weeks ago (an iMac 24-inch), and so far it's been great. But I've now encountered my first problem, although I'm not really sure if it's a problem or not. Let me explain.</p><p></p><p>I install the newest drivers for my old HP printer, and a thing called HP Director automatically appears on my dock. OK, I just remove it, right? I drag it off and it goes away. But next time I log on, it's back in my dock. I remove it again, but it keeps coming back. So I Googled it, and apparently the stupid HP drivers sneak an "auto-docking" program in for their software.</p><p></p><p>I kept reading and found that I could get rid of it for good by editing a file called loginwindow.plist. I just had to edit out a <dict> entry for the HP auto-docking application. I did that, but it didn't work. So I went back to to the loginwindow.plist file to change it back the way it was (I just commented the entry out), and the file is completely different now. Before, it was an XML file, with a doctype declaration and a few different <dict> entries. Now it's just one line of text with a bunch of strings that I don't recognize.</p><p></p><p>This is the file that was in the Preferences folder for my user account. There is another file of the same name in the Preferences folder in Macintosh HD > Library, and this file looks the same as the other one used to. But I don't think this is the file I initially edited, because it's set to read-only.</p><p></p><p>Can I just copy that file over the old one to repair any damage I may have done? Did I even do any damage at all? Sorry to sound paranoid, but I just got this computer and am kind of nervous about screwing it up right away.</p><p></p><p>Thanks in advance for any help!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="sickink2, post: 373092, member: 29666"] Hey everyone, first post here. I just got my first Mac two weeks ago (an iMac 24-inch), and so far it's been great. But I've now encountered my first problem, although I'm not really sure if it's a problem or not. Let me explain. I install the newest drivers for my old HP printer, and a thing called HP Director automatically appears on my dock. OK, I just remove it, right? I drag it off and it goes away. But next time I log on, it's back in my dock. I remove it again, but it keeps coming back. So I Googled it, and apparently the stupid HP drivers sneak an "auto-docking" program in for their software. I kept reading and found that I could get rid of it for good by editing a file called loginwindow.plist. I just had to edit out a <dict> entry for the HP auto-docking application. I did that, but it didn't work. So I went back to to the loginwindow.plist file to change it back the way it was (I just commented the entry out), and the file is completely different now. Before, it was an XML file, with a doctype declaration and a few different <dict> entries. Now it's just one line of text with a bunch of strings that I don't recognize. This is the file that was in the Preferences folder for my user account. There is another file of the same name in the Preferences folder in Macintosh HD > Library, and this file looks the same as the other one used to. But I don't think this is the file I initially edited, because it's set to read-only. Can I just copy that file over the old one to repair any damage I may have done? Did I even do any damage at all? Sorry to sound paranoid, but I just got this computer and am kind of nervous about screwing it up right away. Thanks in advance for any help! [/QUOTE]
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