Hello readers, this time thecybergal will share tips to Hide the Spotlight icon in Mac OS X Lion. These tips just hide, do not disable Spotlight so you can still use your regular search capabilities found in the Finder or other applications that depend on the Spotlight metadata.

To hide the Spotlight menu in Mac OS X Lion, follow the steps below:

1. Open the Terminal (Application -> Utilities) and run the command below:
   

   sudo chmod 600 /System/Library/CoreServices/Search.bundle/Contents/MacOS/Search

2. You have to refresh the menubar. Do it by kill SystemUIServer process:
   

   killall SystemUIServer

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