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PMA and ECRP Background Items Added on Mac: How to Fix

In this guide, we will show you the steps to remove the PMA and ECRP Background Items Added to your Mac. Ever since updating to the thirteenth iteration of the OS, there have seen numerous instances wherein users have reported that a particular app tends to get added to the OS’s background items section. These apps tend to constantly run in the background and end up taking a considerable amount of system resources and only drain the battery on their MacBook.

The case that we are currently dealing with is all the more frightening. Not only does it comes with all the aforementioned drawbacks, but both these files/software are literally unknown as well and their original quite is hard to find. Therefore it is all the more important that you remove the “PMA and ECRP Background Items Added” from your Mac. And in this guide, we will show you how to do just that. Follow along.

Remove PMA and ECRP Background Items Added on Mac

PMA and ECRP Background Items Added

The reason why are facing this issue is due to the fact that these apps/files have made their way over to the LaunchAgents or Daemons folder. While these could be removed via a third-party app, but let’s not get in that direction and instead carry out the task manually using Mac’s very own Finder.

  1. Open Finder, click on Go at the top menu bar, and select Go to Folder.
  2. Then paste the below location and hit Enter.
    ~/Library/LaunchAgents

    PMA and ECRP Background Items Added

  3. Now delete the plist files corresponding to the apps that you wish to remove from the login items screen.
  4. Once that is done, go to the below location and delete the required plist files.
    /Library/LaunchAgents

    PMA and ECRP Background Items Added

  5. Finally, go to the following location and delete the required plist files:
    /Library/LaunchDaemons

    PMA and ECRP Background Items Added

That’s it. These were the steps to remove the PMA and ECRP Background Items Added to your Mac. If you have any queries concerning the aforementioned steps, do let us know in the comments. We will get back to you with a solution at the earliest.


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