How Can I UNISTALL Quick Draw GX
David R. Anderson
How can I completely, effectively uninstall Quck Draw GX printing? The
only thing I can find is a reference to disabling the Extension with an
Extension manager. Isn't there a way I can just wipe it out and go back to
regular printing for the time being? Or, am I just being a dumbass and
overlooking something really obvious?
Thanks
David
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Thomas L. Ferrell
David, You have to go into your extensions folder and drag everything to the trash that contains the word "desktop" or the letters "=
GX". Then reboot and trash any desktop printer icons.
tom
LisaLynx
First, there should be an option in the Apple menu to temporarily turn off
Desktop Printing.
Another overlooked option, and probably the best, is to use the original
installer program provided by Apple that installed the system software.
When you get to the screen where you see "Easy Install," there is a
pop-up menu that lets you choose "Custom Uninstall" or "Custom Remove" (I
forget the exact wording). With this, the Installer will remove all parts
of whatever you choose for you, including all those invisible 'scri' files
that you can't see, though I don't know if there are any for QDGX.
Remember to boot with all extensions off by holding down the shift key
before you run the installer, though.
Personally, except for the memory drain, I think QuickDraw GX is a vast
improvement over the normal printing process. Are you having a specific
problem with it tha I can help you with?
Lisa
If the road to Hell really is paved with good intentions, then I am
building my own private onramp.
Steve Calvin
>How can I completely, effectively uninstall Quck Draw GX printing? The
>only thing I can find is a reference to disabling the Extension with an
>Extension manager. Isn't there a way I can just wipe it out and go back
to
>regular printing for the time being? Or, am I just being a dumbass and
>overlooking something really obvious?
>
>Thanks
>
>David
>
David, I just did this the other day, when I decided to give gx another
try. Didn't work. So I opened the installer, (which is on the 7.5 update 2
disk) and selected custom remove. It removed all of it except the
"about..." file in the root HD folder.
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Jane
I also have problems because on a powerpc GX takes up too much memory
when one has only 16MB. ALso, before I could choose "ColorSync™" in the
printing dialog box, and now it's missing, and to tell you truthfully,
the black print is not as black and the colors not as true. Without GX
the pictures were an exact match to what was on the screen, and
everything worked faster. I am debating whether to take off GX or just
wait until I upgrade memory, which I plan to do soon. If I uninstall GX
using the installer, what about the GX fax icon I also have on my
screen? Do I need to uninstall the printer driver as well? (Since I'm
using an HP855cxi for which I had to obtain a GX driver apart from disks
that came with it.)
Emily Sieger
Steve Calvin wrote:
>
> >How can I completely, effectively uninstall Quck Draw GX printing? The
> >only thing I can find is a reference to disabling the Extension with an
> >Extension manager. Isn't there a way I can just wipe it out and go back
> to
> >regular printing for the time being? Or, am I just being a dumbass and
> >overlooking something really obvious?
> >
> >Thanks
> >
how about doing a FIND search, then dragging the GX files to the
trash...
John Kenneth Mayberry
> Steve Calvin wrote:
> >
> > >How can I completely, effectively uninstall Quck Draw GX printing? The
> > >only thing I can find is a reference to disabling the Extension with an
> > >Extension manager. Isn't there a way I can just wipe it out and go back
> > to
> > >regular printing for the time being? Or, am I just being a dumbass and
> > >overlooking something really obvious?
> > >
> > >Thanks
> > >
Your OS system installer under the custom install menu allows for
de-installing software. My cd of 7.5.3L gives me the option to take Quick
Draw off.
Hope this helps.
jkm
Andre-John Mas
The simplest solution is to disable the following two extensions:
QuickDraw GX
QuickDraw GX Helper
after that it does not matter if you leave the GX printer drivers and
other GX extensions in, since the other GX utilities won't be loaded.
I use the extension manager to do this, simply selecting and deselecting
as appropriate and then restarting. Though you could just as easily as
use the finder's find command (File menu:Find...) and locating those two
files and then dragging them to the desktop.
BTW having both old and new printer drivers together in the system
folder doesn't hurt the older QD ignores the QDGX drivers and vice
versa.
I don't use QDGX for printing because there is no GX driver for my
printer :(, though I use it to print out a QD GX PDD file that I can
then convert to a PDF file using a free utility called Tumbler. This
way I don't have to fork out a fortune on Adobe's solution ;)
Hope this helps.
Andre-John
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