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how to remove a shared computer

A friend came over with his PC laptop and I got him on the LAN to access his PC. Now he's taken his PC away I cannot remove the icon from the shared section in the Finder window. How is this done?

MP 2.8/8 cores, MBP 2.8, 16GB RAM,, Mac OS X (10.6.3), ATI 3850

Posted on Feb 26, 2011 12:48 AM

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Oct 19, 2016 10:58 AM in response to Diego Jobs

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EDIT: Sorry, now fixed it. Please ignore this post... I'd delete it if I knew how!

Mar 22, 2017 6:04 PM in response to SeamusUK

Try this: and then at the end physically turn computer off then on..

Mar 20, 2016 8:05 AM Re: how to remove a shared computerin response to wstoneburner

I've been working on removing an old HP computer and making only a little headway when I came across your suggestion and tried it. I was multi-tasking on my Macbook Pro and using my Mac and didn't want to meddle with the router physically until the Macbook Pro was finished with what I had it doing, so I decided to go ahead and try your suggestion.


The problem was this: I had an old HP computer visible on the Finder list at the left side of the window and wanted to remove it.


In a previous post, I came across the check/uncheck Bonjour computers suggestion in the Finder Preferences under the Sidebar menu and it would indeed 'hide' the HP but there was a new item which appeared with the word 'All' in it that came on in place of the HP item and I didn't want to see either.


As soon as I re-checked the Bonjour computers checkbox, the HP came back so I knew it was still present, just hidden and since I no longer use that computer, I wanted it gone for good.


Next, I saw the thread about toggling the File Share off then back on and voila! My HP is now gone off the Shared list in Finder and I can toggle Bonour computers on and off and HP is still gone. Yay! Thanks for the help wstoneburner and a few others who posted before yours which led me to your suggestion.

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