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Remove Classic cleanly
Authored by: mbogosian on Feb 20, '06 01:31:42PM

Unfortunately, having Classic.prefPane around still impacts the system, even if OS9 is not present. For example, in a fresh install of Tiger without OS9, every time a volume is mounted, several "Classic" things happen for that volume:

  • the (hidden and useless-for-OS-X) files Desktop\ D* are created at the root level
  • /System/Library/PreferencePanes/Classic.prefPane/Contents/Resources/ClassicPrefHWTest is run (which can be very time consuming and disk-intensive for large file systems)

As far as I know, there is no way to turn off that behavior without either removing /System/Library/PreferencePanes/Classic.prefPane or renaming it (e.g., to Classic.prefPane.off). That is unless I am missing something.

Can someone speak more intelligently on this?



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