Uninstalling Growl
Growl is a neat application that allows you to notifications of different events happening in your computer in real time. You can hook up several items within your system to notify you as they happen, application like Mail, Safari, can be easily hook up to Growl as well as several third party apps.
I had Adium, Cyberduck, and Mozy hooked up, notifying me of anything happening on my computer like the start of a back up, new email messages, new chat messages, etc. The application is very unobtrusive and very reliable, it doesn’t take many CPU cycles and almost never crashes.
To uninstall Growl, visit the system preferences pane, select Growl from the menu. Deselect the status items (if you even have this option,) deselect the option to start Growl at login, and stop the application from running. After this click show all to show your entire system preferences pane, right click on the Growl icon and click on Uninstall Growl. You can also visit growl removal on the Growl.info website.
You should be asking yourself by now, why would you uninstall it then? Simple answer, I have a 1.83MHz Intel Core2Duo Mac mini with 1GB of ram and no money to upgrade it at this time. Leaving me with a not too powerful system that needs all it CPU cycles to work appropriately.
Even when Growl is not processor intensive, if you have several services hook up to it, this may slow things
up a bit. Also, it may have your computer going into Swap memory to keep moving other things faster. I am cleaning out all possibilities of background application to have my Mac mini run as smoothly as possible as Growl had to go.
Another reason for me to uninstall Growl is because I was not using it as much as I though. I don’t chat as much as I used to do and the only application that was really using it was Mail.app. If you have a newer Macintosh computer, and you think Growl can help you, visit Growl.info to download the latest version of their software.
Rest assure that Growl will not harm your computer and it’s as easy to install, as it is to uninstall. If you have used Growl or you are using it right now, share your experience with other by leaving a comment on this post, and thanks for reading.
