Cleaning old kext

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Cleaning old kext

Hello, I experience a lot of crashes and kernel panics lately and I was wondering, shoul I consider to clean up my extention folder?
I'm sure I got outdated useless 3rd party kext by now. For example I got a "Xerox USB Printing.kext" but I don't have a xerox printer so is it really useful?
I don't use bluetooth so do I need the bluetooth kext? Etc.

Getting rid of those seems a good idea, but in another hand we are not really supposed to go into that area since osX and of course I don't want to mess up my system.

Posted on Jul 15, 2006 6:19 AM

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Answer 1

Jul 15, 2006 7:35 AM in response to Ra_

"shoul I consider to clean up my extention folder?"

Absolutely not. Do not mess with anything in the System folder unless you are seasoned Unix guru who knows what they're doing.

If you're not using a device that calls upon a kernel extension, the extension is not in use, and therfore uses no system resources.

If anything, just download Tiger Cache Cleaer and do a deep cleaning of all cache files.

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Jul 15, 2006 8:48 AM in response to Templeton Peck

If you're not using a device that calls upon a kernel
extension, the extension is not in use, and therfore
uses no system resources.

Ah ok then. Thanks.

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