Comments on: Appleworks Dock Icon Annoyance

Question: Appleworks Dock Icon Annoyance

gerls — Mon, 11 Feb 2008 23:04:06 -0800

Why does the AppleWorks icon appear briefly (and then disappear) on my Dock when I start or wake up my iBook? This is making me ridiculously cranky. Help me minimise my raaaage!

By: B(oYo)BIES

B(oYo)BIES — Mon, 11 Feb 2008 23:14:42 -0800

Try deleting this file: /Users/~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.dock.plist (where ~ is the short name of your user account).

This should reset the dock (equivalent of reinstalling it)

If that doesn't work, you might try running OnyX.

By: kimota

kimota — Tue, 12 Feb 2008 04:24:25 -0800

Also, check /Library/StartupItems and /System/Library/StartupItems and also, within System Preferences --> Accounts --> Login Items for possible leads. Good luck!

By: bcwinters

bcwinters — Tue, 12 Feb 2008 05:57:32 -0800

Are you sure it's the AppleWorks icon? Is it possible that it's the generic application icon? (Example here)

I mention it because if you're checking the login/startup items for "AppleWorks", you might not find it. It could be any number of utilities that you installed (or were installed for you by a 'helpful' program), so be thorough.

By: markturner

markturner — Tue, 12 Feb 2008 08:09:55 -0800

This is probably something called pipedaemon.

By: gerls

gerls — Tue, 12 Feb 2008 16:22:08 -0800

oooooh markturner!

You rule.

And thanks to the rest of you too :)