Yes, that person icon is the icon for “Fast User Switching”. In order to have it show up in your menu bar, a few conditions need to be met. First is that you have more than one user account, second is that fast user switching is enabled.

Open your System Preferences, click on “Accounts”, and in this window, you will see your list of users on the left. Below that list is a house icon with the words “Login Options”. Click on “Login Options”, click the lock icon and authenticate, and check off the “Show fast user switching menu as: Icon” checkbox.

The reason we have that icon in most of our screen shots is that I use one account for my main day to day use, and have a clean account that I use to take screen shots in for OS X Help posts.

My main account is far too customized and would not match what most users are expecting to see on their systems. In order to help show users examples that are as close to their system as possible, we keep a second account that can be wiped clean and started new at any time we feel we have messed it up too much and made the settings too far from default.

Hope that helps, let us know if that is not the setting you were looking for.

Then Show Processes in there, select the relevant one, and force quit it. This may be simpler than the terminal.

If you know the name (maybe you used Activity Monitor), or even if you don’t, run: Applications->Utilities->Terminal

in Terminal, type:
ps -ax | less

or if you want this in a file:

ps -ax > procs.txt

This should give you a complete list of all processes, _including_the_path_ to the process.

Find the one that represents the process and delete it (at your discretion and own risk).

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I would bet your PGP CMM is only 32 bit, and can not run under Snow in 64, so it is not loading.

According to http://na.store.pgp.com/desktop_home_mac.html there is support up to 10.5, not 10.6.

There page states:

The current version of PGP Desktop Home for Mac OS (9.10) is not supported on Mac OS X 10.6 (Snow Leopard). Support for Mac OS X 10.6 will be available in the next major release of PGP Desktop Home (10.0). If you would like to be notified when the Beta version of PGP Desktop Professional becomes available, please register at http://www.pgp.com/developers/beta/request.html. If you have questions about PGP products and Mac OS X 10.6, please visit our support site https://pgp.custhelp.com/app/.

If you are just looking to securely erase files, you can use Secure Empty Trash.

I have also found, at times, badly written apps can use the format internally within their app, which can cause those apps to have strange behavior.

I have found iStat Menu’s to be invaluable. Not only does it give a super simple way to modify the date and time menu item, it gives you a drop down calendar, network data, CPU usage, and much much more. Of course, you can turn off all but just the date and time features.

Take a look, I find this to be a very valuable tool http://www.islayer.com/apps/istatmenus/

BTW – This is an incredible site. I JUST switched over to Mac yesterday. I couldn’t figure out how to move some picts off of a CD. Today, after going through a bunch of feeds (starting @ #1) I’m feeling like I’ll never open up my other pc notebook again. Thanks!

Do you have anywhere on this site a list of all of the Mac keyboard shortcuts? That would be great.

Finally, look in your Accounts preferences, and there are items listed as Login Items, If you control click on those, you can tell it to “reveal in finder” and locate where it is hiding out at, and perhaps find even more software to delete.

Finally, assuming it is in there, remove it from your login items list as well.

Perhaps if I had a small screen, it may take least precedence and get shoved of.

Make sure you are up to date at this link.