How do I quit a program on a macbook pro laptop?

Question

I have two little black triangles under my dashboard and my finder, so they are running I tink. How do I quit both programs?

Answer 1

Both Dashboard and Finder are always open, no matter what you do, so the triangles never disappear.

Answer 2

The Dashboard and the Finder can't be quit, and forcing them to quit could crash your system (especially the Finder).

But you can remove them from the Dock by clicking on their icons and dragging them away from the Dock, then releasing them. That way, even though they are running, they won't show up there with the little black triangles under them.

Cheers!

Answer 3

You don't quit them, they're supposed to run at all times. The Finder is the application that pretty much controls everything you see on the Macintosh. It's the desktop. The Dashboard is a system service, not just an application that you can close. If you don't want to see it's icon all of the time, just drag it from the Dock.

Answer 4

You are right. There are dozens of ways of doing this, so I will just give you the one I think is by far easiest.

If you have a two button mouse, right click on the icon on the dock. Select quit. If you have a one button mouse, do the same thing, but click and hold instead of right clicking.

If the program is freezing up, you can force quit it by doing the same thing, but holding the option key.


EDIT: Ah, Nicky is right, that may be what you are referring to. However, you can (kind of) quit dashboard. It does not actually load until the first time you start it at login, so it is not *really* running even if it says it is. If you want to kill it during your session, open terminal and type "killall dock". If that does not work (permission denied error or something), use "sudo killall dock".

Answer 5

specific, stress quitting like that could reason severe issues. The stress cease option is meant for use for courses that are putting and unresponsive. employing it ability that the courses at the instant can not save documents and close open procedures right. this could bring about corruption and could over the years make the computing device unbootable in case you do it in many situations adequate and be in a position to realize this whilst something severe isn't able to save documents right.

Answer 6

You just right click on it and there'll be a "quit" or "force quit" choice. If you have a one button mouse, choose "force quit" under the apple in the upper left corner of the screen.

Answer 7

Click and hold down that program until a little option thing appears from it, and click force quit. I hope this help

Answer 8

the apple button+Q

or.. if that doesn work, clikc the blue apple on the upper left hand corner of the screen and say force quit. then force quit those two applications

Answer 9

Command Q

Answer 10

Nicky is right, they are always on. Just leave them on, they do no harm, and are needed.