Hide/Remove "App Store..." from Apple Menu

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Hide/Remove "App Store..." from Apple Menu

Hello, does anyone know how to hide/remove the "App Store..." from the Apple menu? The picture below shows excatly what I'm talking about:

Thank you.

Mac OS X (10.7.2)

Posted on Jul 10, 2012 5:21 AM

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softwater

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Jul 10, 2012 5:27 AM in response to Morgan R

You can't take it out of the menu.

You can drag it off the dock, and you can hide the App in your Applications folder with a bit of Terminal magic, but removing it from the menu....no way, I'm afraid!

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Morgan R Author

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Jul 10, 2012 5:30 AM in response to softwater

Yeah I've hidden the App Store.app in the application folder but even with it hidden, the App Store.app still opens when the menu option above is selected.

Thanks for your response.

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softwater

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Jul 10, 2012 5:42 AM in response to Morgan R

Morgan R wrote:

but even with it hidden, the App Store.app still opens when the menu option above is selected.

Yes, of course. That's programmed right into the core of the system. No way round it.

If you're worried about other users on your mac, you can set up a separate account and enable parental controls and disable the App store, but that's about it.

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Morgan R Author

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Jul 10, 2012 5:45 AM in response to softwater

Thanks for the suggestion but the Macs are bound to Active Directory (AD) and users login using their AD credentials. So even if I could, I don't want to go down the Parental Controls route.

Morgan

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Shootist007

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Jul 10, 2012 5:48 AM in response to Morgan R

Just why do you feel you need to make this change? Are the other users Admins of there accounts? If so why not restrick them and give them User accounts instead od Admin.

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Morgan R Author

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Jul 10, 2012 6:18 AM in response to softwater

Actually, hiding the application in the Finder DOES stop the application from launching.

I swear it didn't do this last week! I just tried it because of Shootist007 comment. So yeah, simply hiding the application using the command below "disables" App Store... menu item.

sudo mv /Applications/App\ Store.app /Applications/.App\ Store.app

I wrote on article on why this works here.

Morgan

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softwater

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Jul 10, 2012 6:45 AM in response to Morgan R

So this whole thread was just a patsy to promote your webpage which you wrote a month ago?

Please have some respect and don't waste our time.

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Morgan R Author

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Jul 10, 2012 6:48 AM in response to softwater

No.

I tried to remove the hyperlink but it won't let me. If it's possible to delete this topic, please instruct me on how to.

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Jun 4, 2015 7:56 PM in response to Morgan R

I ran into this problem in 10.10.3.

You need to edit this file:

/System/Library/Frameworks/Carbon.framework/Versions/A/Frameworks/HIToolbox.fram ework/Versions/A/Resources/English.lproj/StandardMenus.nib/objects.xib

Look for a block similar to this (On 10.10.3, it is called 'App Store...'):

<string name="title">Mac OS X Software...</string>

</object>

You used to be able to add '<boolean name="hidden">TRUE</boolean>' after the '<string name="title">Mac OS X Software...</string>' line. That would hide it in the menu, but this no longer works in 10.10.3 for some strange reason.

Instead, note the IBCarbonMenuItem id number. In the above example it is 221. It's the same id number in 10.10.3 as well. Now instead, look for a reference tag containing this id. It should look like '<reference idRef="221"/>'. There will be a whole list of reference tags and they act like indices for menu items. You can delete this line or comment it out with xml comment syntax. Ex: '' . That will remove it from the menu.

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