Disable Front Row Plugins

While Front Row has some problems, it is very nice for hooking up your Mac to your TV. One of my problems with Front Row is that it has a lot of extra options I don't want. Fortunately, I recently read of way to remove different sections from the Front Row interface. It's actually quite simple, although, you'll need to be using an administrator's account.

Step 1: Open Finder and go to Macintosh HD/System/Library/CoreServices/Front Row.app.

Step 2: Right click on Front Row.app and select "Show Package Contents".

Step 3: Go to the Contents folder.

Step 4: You'll probably want to create a backup folder for the plugins you don't want. So open up Terminal.app and run this command and enter your admin password:

sudo mkdir /System/Library/CoreServices/Front\ Row.app/Contents/Disabled_PlugIns

This will create a folder called "Disabled_Plugins" in the Contents folder.

Step 5: Go back to Finder and move plugins from the Plugins folder to the Disabled_Plugins folder. You should be able to use drag and drop. When moving the items, you'll have to enter in your admin password.

If you haven't launched Front Row since you last logged in, you should now be able to launch Front Row and the plugins you removed will be gone. If you haven't, use the following command to quit Front Row:

killall 'Front Row'