Q: AGAdminService / Citrix is running 100% cpu, but I never installed it!

Came to this late after my MBA appeared to be working as a noisy heater and having about one hour battery life. Thanks for the solution which has worked a treat. Now I just have to find the guys who wrote the Citrix plugin and congratulate them on creating code that generated an 8 page problem thread. Well done!

Thanks´s a lot !

since updating my MBook 13" Mid 2009 first to Lion and later on to Mountain Lion i used it for computing AND heating my coffee. Battery time was getting smaller and smaller, and i didnt know why my MBook served as a heating device (thought it was propably a new hidden Apple feature for users in cold regions of the world :-)  ).

Until today: when I used Activity Monitor just for fun: 98% CPU usage from "Agadminservice" ?? Googled that and needless to say:

The fix worked ! My MBook is cold as ice as it used to be, it´s calm, and, that´s the clue, citrix is working fine via Webinterface/Desktop Viewer and Safari , without this heating bomb agadminservice loading again!

I´m happy. Thankk you again !

The only thing about is: why th* f*** these Citrix Guys don´t know that????

Would you mind giving me step by step instructions and how you still use Citrix?  This thing is driving me crazy but I still need Citrix for work.  But if I can't have the best of both I want my laptop back to cool not a toaster

I still did not wonderstood what exactly you did... can you be more especif of where I need to go?

Basically i did exactly what was posted at the beginning of this thread:

Opened Terminal, an then used the command

sudo launchctl unload -w /Library/LaunchDaemons/com.citrix.agadminservice.plist

That removed the "adminservice.plist" from my memory.

To use the "sudo" command in OSX Mountain Lion you probably must enable the "root" user of your Mac; per default root  in MLion is deactivated:

http://support.apple.com/kb/ht1528

I did that, than used the sudo command (see above), and afterwards deactivated the root account again for safety reasons.

That´s it.

citrix still works on my Macbook, even without this agadamsinverice.plist. I´m not an computer or Mac expert so i can´t tell you exactly how Citrix continues to work without; as far as i understood, agadminservice.plist is a relict from a previous installation/version of citrix  an is found only on Macbooks which are updated from snow Leopard or Lion (mine comes from Snow Leopard to Lion to Mountain Lion).

If you removed this agadaminservice.plist succesfully from your Mac and have problems using Citirx afterward i suggest removing Citrix and do a "fresh" reinstallation

Exceelnet solution,

after buying anew battery as mine was dying I posed the qustion applied this  fix and hey my MB is running coll, and battery no longer needs replacing.

I also used the ask dave taylor site:

http://www.askdavetaylor.com/why_is_apple_macbook_pro_suddenly_running_hot.html

and then used the terminal command to kill the process:

sudo launchctl unload -w /Library/LaunchDaemons/com.citrix.agadminservice.plist

my MB now runs cool as cucumber and my battery keeps a decent charge

thank you all

Yes I concur this did the trick however any reason why it was causing the problem? If any of the apple engineers are on here do you have an explanation for this?

nice, worked great thanks. should I run this every time I restart?

Yes - where is the official Apple line on this... what a cockup from a software update... less is more next time

BTW Thanks to geniuses who showed me coding - that's the first time I've ever gone that far into my macbook's gubbings

thanx! (but well, i wanted to install citrix client, but it failed.)

Hoots Roger OSX, solved a problem that has saved my wife's MBA from a merciless eBay death!

I have read though all these replies, and I'm more lost then I started. I was trying to see if there is  a solution if we actually use Citrix, does anyone know of a solution for this?

I do not want to run this Unlaunch if it means i can't work from home. Anyone???