Is there a way to lock icons in the Mac OS X Dock?
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September 7th, 2009
Many timesI have accidentally dragged applications off my Dock, and I was wondering if there was a way to lock the icons to prevent such a thing from happening again.
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@johnpowell that doesn’t lock items in and prevent them from being dragged off.
@nashish You can but you have to enable Parental Controls under Accounts in system preferences. I think you’ll need to make another admin account and login under that to change your accounts parental controls.
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I’ve never really found it that easy to drag apps off my Dock.
@nashish Many timesI have accidentally dragged applications off my Dock,
I know just what you mean.
I once accidentally dated, courted and married the wrong woman.
(Thankfully I was able to amend that error. My current wife is fantastic and has been for more than twenty-five years.)
@justn I’ve read about using the parental controls to make the Dock unmodifiable, but I don’t think it’s serious enough for me to create a whole other account.
Anyway, I was just curious if there was a way to do that. I don’t drag icons accidentally off the Dock very often, but it’s annoying when I do, and I often don’t know what it was.
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