Uninstall VirtualHostX Application in Mac OS X – VirtualHostX removal steps from Mac OS X

Want to uninstall VirtualHostX apps? Not able to find a way to uninstall VirtualHostX completely from your Mac Machine? Is your Mac machine giving error after manually uninstalling VirtualHostX application?

Uninstalling VirtualHostX in mac is just a different approach than in Windows OS. Windows OS provides a option to uninstall application or application manufactures provides uninstaller with the application. But in Mac OS X there is nothing like uninstall utility. To uninstall the VirtualHostX you simply need to drag & drop the VirtualHostX application bundles to trash, that's it. STOP this is not the end there is more to properly uninstalling the VirtualHostX from your machine.

VirtualHostX Bundles – The Application Bundle

Drag & Drop leaves the associated files of VirtualHostX application. Normally, it is thought that all the associated files of a application is saved in the one folder but it is not so. VirtualHostX supported files & preference files are saved in other location than the VirtualHostX Package folder. So you need to get all these files deleted manually. Deleting all the left overs of VirtualHostX is not that easy, you need to find all the location where VirtualHostX has saved the files. Some of the location where VirtualHostX would have saved the files are ~/Library/Preferences/[] ~/Library/Application Support/[]

Recommendation You should always use the Award winning tool to Uninstall VirtualHostX completely from your Mac machine.

Using Finder the remove the VirtualHostX Application Bundles & Additional Files

To Manually uninstall VirtualHostX & all associated files

Start the Activity monitor to look for the processes running, if you find the VirtualHostX application process running then quit it, make sure that VirtualHostX processes is not running.
Start finder to look for the VirtualHostX name.
Searching "VirtualHostX" vs "Contents"
Delete all files and folders related to the VirtualHostX app.
A reboot might be necessary to completely remove some apps.