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Say Goodbye to Bonjour with Au Revoir, Bonjour

By Adam Myers ⋅ February 27, 2009 ⋅ Tags: Annoyances, Apple

We all like clean and well maintained systems right? One of the most annoying tendencies of all software vendors is the installation of additional programs and system services that are not core to the main application. Two such vendors are Apple and Adobe. If you’ve installed iTunes, or other Apple software for the PC, you may notice a strange process named mDNSResponder.exe running in Windows Task Manager. Not to be overshadowed by Apple, Adobe exhibits the installation of the same rogue process.

In all actuality, mDNSResponder is the Bonjour service that is responsible for the auto discovery of network services and devices across your local network. In other words, it helps finding things like network file shares or network printers. Does that sound useful to you? No – me either! Worse, the uninstallation of the initial software will leave the Bonjour service installed and running. If you are interested in recouping precious system resources, Bonjour can be removed safely and still leave the main applications – like iTunes – functioning fully and correctly.

Au Revoir, Bonjour is a small freeware application for Windows that locates and eradicates the Bonjour service from your system. At 88KB, the single executable does it’s thing with great efficiency. Upon successful removal of Bonjour, a reboot will be required to complete the process.

Say Au Revoir, Bonjour!