Programs Mac uninstall - how to do this?

To remove Software that you have not downloaded from the Mac App Store, proceed as follows:

1. Open the "Finder" and select in the left menu provide the name of your Macs or MacBooks.
2. Click on the internal hard drive of the computer. By default, this is named as "Macintosh HD".
3. Select the sub-folder "programs". There you will see all the installed programs.
4. Drag the program or the program folder by Drag and Drop in the trash in the Dock. The program is uninstalled.
5. Then, you click with two fingers on the recycle bin and select empty the "recycle bin" to the memory place final release.

Apps from the Mac App Store, you remove similar to iOS on the launch pad. This is how it works:

1. You can open the Launchpad with the key "F4".
2. Press and hold "alt". It is a small cross in the upper left corner of each App and the Icons will appear will begin to jiggle.
3. Click with the mouse on the cross, and confirm with a click on "Delete" to remove the App.

Programs leave traces on your Mac, even if you have deleted them. To remove a program completely, you would have to manually search all the auxiliary files and delete them. Easier to track the removal by uninstall the program. A free solution is "AppCleaner".

1. Install "AppCleaner" and run the program.
2. Go to the Tab "programs" and put in front of each to-be-deleted program a hook. Then click "Search".
3. "AppCleaner" to find all related files and displays them in a list. Click on "Delete" to remove the program with all the files.

The more programs you use on your MacBook or iMac, the slower your computer is. But that must not be The most current Mac generations offer plenty of space for thousands of Apps and plenty of RAM for smooth Multitasking.

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The manual refers to a MacBook Air 13-inch, Mid 2012 with Mac OS X 10.8.3.