I have a new MacBook Pro. In the Menu Bar is a shaded icon, looks like a blue S with a small face on the bottom. Cannot click on it to open or drag it from the Menu Bar. What is it and how do I either open it or get rid of it?
Do you have any third-party preference panes installed or a third-party utility that enables a menubar item? If so then check in Accounts preferences' Login Items to see if a login item is in the list. If so then select it and delete it. Other possible locations of a third-party enabler are:
I bet you have a Samsung laser printer, don't you?
And if so, it looks like you were dumb enough to put in the included CD! Don't! Those CD's are for the Windows Users!
Look what happened! It now installed the SmartPannel that is very un-fun to remove. Lucky for you, I re-looked up for you how to do it....as when I first got my mac, I too was dumb enough to put in that disk and got frustrated when I couldn't make the icon go away.
so . . . in:
~library/printers/SmartPanel
there is a script called iLaunchSP....Trash it!
Reboot!
It will be gone!
I am having the same issue, and yes I have the samsung printer. However, I do not have a Smartpanel folder in my ~library/printers folder. Nor do i have a "iLaunchSP" script anywhere on my Mac.
To add to Kappy's list, menubar items that don't have their own "preference panes" for dealing with such things sometimes also pop up in "System/Library/CoreServices/ Menu Extras" too. Don't mess with regular Apple ones there, though, of course.