Can't delete istat menus 3 icon from my menu bar

I thought I had removed it by dragging, or highlighting it and clicking on DELETE, or something else. Anyway, it disappeared, and cannot be found with SPOTLIGHT. The problem is that its icon (sometimes three and sometimes six of them) is on my menu bar and i can't remove them. When I click on one of these icons, I get a dropdown menu entitled, "Demo Expired". Under that is BUY, REGISTER, and UNINSTALL. Needless to say, clicking on the UNINSTALL button doesn't help. My first object is to remove those icons, but I'd also like to do something to the people responsible for this. In searching for a remedy to this problem, I found many others who have, or had, the same problem. It just seems to me that the creators of this trap should be made accountable, "be brought to justice," as it were. I'll settle for fixing the icon problem, but it would be a great bonus to be able to make good citizens of them.


One suggested fix was to reinstall their program and then uninstall it with their UNINSTALL feature. Being desperate, I tried that, but got no further than the point where I was asked for my password. Give my password to such @#$%#@$$%#? Never.

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Posted on Sep 22, 2012 9:25 AM

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Posted on Sep 22, 2012 10:18 AM

Open Finder to your Macintosh HD. Then look in Library > LauchAgents > delete com.bjango.istatlocal.plist

Also delete Library > LaunchDaemons > com.bjango.istatlocaldaemon.plist


Edit: You can also find the uninstaller in Macintosh HD > Library > Application Support > iStat local > Uninstaller.app

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Sep 22, 2012 10:18 AM in response to Niku

Open Finder to your Macintosh HD. Then look in Library > LauchAgents > delete com.bjango.istatlocal.plist

Also delete Library > LaunchDaemons > com.bjango.istatlocaldaemon.plist


Edit: You can also find the uninstaller in Macintosh HD > Library > Application Support > iStat local > Uninstaller.app

Sep 22, 2012 10:55 AM in response to captfred

captfred wrote:


Open Finder to your Macintosh HD. Then look in Library > LauchAgents > delete com.bjango.istatlocal.plist

Also delete Library > LaunchDaemons > com.bjango.istatlocaldaemon.plist


Edit: You can also find the uninstaller in Macintosh HD > Library > Application Support > iStat local > Uninstaller.app


--This is weird. Using your instructions, I got to a place where there were four istat icons. I was going to tell you that I tried "highlight-delete", dragging them to my desktop, and trashing them, but that nothng worked. Then, I remembered that I hadn't tried "right click-delete," so I went back to try that before contacting you again. Well, I couldn't find "library" this time, and I learned that Mountain Lion makes it difficult (I was just lucky the first time). Anyway, can you tell me how to find my library? Oh, and will "right click-delete" work on my istaat files?

Sep 22, 2012 12:24 PM in response to captfred

Okay, I learned from YouTube how to find "Library" in Snow Leopard. They also showed how to include it wih the other items in Finder, so I won't have that problem again. It wasn't for naught. I found those four istat files again, and using the right-click/delete ploy, I removed them forever. Then, after restarting my computer, there were no more istat icons in my menu bar. Thanks for your help. Thanks for sticking with me.

Sep 29, 2016 8:30 AM in response to JoMoSi

You might want to consider starting a new discussion. Since this one is marked solved and is a couple of years old, less people are likely to look at it. A new post would be much more visible. You can link to this one. In a new post, try running this program in your normal account , then copy and paste the output in a reply. The program was created by Etresoft, a frequent contributor. Please use copy and paste as screen shots can be hard to read. On the screen with Options, please open Options and check the bottom 2 boxes before running. Click “Share Report” button in the toolbar, select “Copy to Clipboard” and then paste into a reply. This will show what is running on your computer. No personal information is shown.

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