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10.5: Disable Spotlight LaunchAgent, too
Spotlight uses a LaunchAgent to try to continually relaunch itself when it terminates. While it's not really that big of a deal, you can also set the permissions of the launchagent to 0 to keep it from being readable... which will keep launchd from trying to restart spotlight every 10 seconds. After changing the permissions of the spotlight.app, if you look in the console log, you'll probably see a bunch of entries saying that it tried to relaunch and then failed.
To disable the spotlight launch agent:
To put things back the way they were:
Why there's no system preference for disabling the spotlight menu, I'll never understand. Way to go apple, thanks for telling me how to use my computer.
10.5: Disable Spotlight LaunchAgent, too
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