The LogMeIn Hamachi MenuBar item is not quittable. There is an item 'Quit,' but however you try, or even if you stop the process in Activity Monitor, it won't quit. I tested this on 10.6 and 10.7, so problem on both. But enabling quitting is really easy.
The problem is that Hamachi is implemented as a launch agent in Mac OS X. So every time it quits itself or gets quit through Activity Monitor, OS X automatically relaunches it due to how launch agents work. They automatically restart when quit. So the solution is:
Also note, that after this hint, it is NOT needed that you run the menubar app before opening Hamachi. Hamachi works absoluetly fine wihtout the menu extra.
[crarko adds: Logmein provides an uninstaller, which removes the menu item as well as the application. As a recall a restart was required after that, although I can't absolutely swear to that.]
The problem is that Hamachi is implemented as a launch agent in Mac OS X. So every time it quits itself or gets quit through Activity Monitor, OS X automatically relaunches it due to how launch agents work. They automatically restart when quit. So the solution is:
- Go to /Library/LaunchAgents. Note: Not your user's library, but the system wide library.
- Find the ...hamachi.plist. There will be some leading qualifiers (hence the ...) but there shouldn't be more than one Hamachi plist in there.
- Save/copy it to a safe place, in case you want to re-enable it later.
- Delete it from the Library.
- Restart the Mac.
Also note, that after this hint, it is NOT needed that you run the menubar app before opening Hamachi. Hamachi works absoluetly fine wihtout the menu extra.
[crarko adds: Logmein provides an uninstaller, which removes the menu item as well as the application. As a recall a restart was required after that, although I can't absolutely swear to that.]
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