[Aramas]

Has 10.3.7 disabled quitting Finder? I've tried shutting it down in Activity Monitor and also used Tinkertools to enable 'Q' quitting, but it just reloads itself after a few seconds.

The reason I ask is that it hogs ram and cpu resources that I want for a game I'm playing (World of Warcraft), and apparently shutting down Finder gives a good performance boost.

Any ideas?

[cpac]

afaik the Finder has always re-launched itself after being force-quit - so I don't think that's new with 10.3.7

[chris v]

On a reasonably fast machine, an idle Finder shouldn't be using more than 0.5% CPU on average. You'll see the occasional spike, but most of the time, it's not hitting the CPU at all, unless something's wrong.

Also, I have enabled "quit finder" with Tinker Tool, and it works here just fine. Quit it last night, and re-launched it this AM no problems. Was curious to see how much it would speed up RC5, and the answer was not much.

[Anubis IV]

I can't speak to your problem, but quitting it with TinkerTool works fine here. It doesn't relaunch until I tell it to. Quitting via Force Quit or the Activity Monitor will lead to an immediate relaunch, but the TinkerTool method seems to work fine for me...just did it a few times in the last couple of days (mostly by accident, actually), so I think your problem lies elsewhere.