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Fully uninstall applications on a Mac

Fully uninstall applications on a Mac

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Fully uninstall applications on a Mac

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- [Instructor] If you switch from a Windows computer to a Mac computer, you may have noticed that there's no option to uninstall applications on a Mac. So in this week's Monday Productivity Pointers, I want to explain why that is, and also show a few useful tools that you can use to completely remove an application from a Mac. So here on my Mac, I want to go into Finder, I'll just click on the Finder icon on the dock. And I'll use the shortcut over here on the left to go to my Applications folder. On a Mac, all of the applications that you install will be here in this folder. For example, let's look at Google Chrome, that did not come with my computer, I installed it later. On Windows, if you want to remove an application, you would uninstall it. On a Mac, the entire application is contained here in this one file. So generally speaking, if you want to remove an application from your Mac, all you need to do is delete the…

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