How can Stop the Help Window Being on Top on OS X

Does your Mac computer always displays the help window? Is it annoying or irritating for you? And have you ever thought about stopping it from the computer? Don’t worry, you will be able to stop it appearing on the PC after reading this post.

OS X Help window is a built-in feature serves the user to use different functions and services on the computer more effectively and smoothly. By default, it will keep appearing on all of windows on the desktop, including those which are not currently active, and showcase the built-in manuals and troubleshooting guides to help you perform the associated operation on the computer. It might be useful for those people who just start to use the OS X, but it also can be frustrating when the people has been very familiar with the computer system. If you don’t want the window is always displaying on the screen to annoy you, you can choose to stop it from being on top on the windows.

Stop the OS X Help Window from Staying on Top

• Close all of Help windows displaying on the computer
• Launch Terminal on the Dock; if you cannot find it, please click on Go >>> Applications >>> Utilities
• Enter the following command in the Terminal and hit Return key

“defaults write com.apple.helpviewer DevMode -bool TRUE”

After that, you will see that Help Viewer will no longer appear on top. If you want to return back to the previous situation, you only need to conduct the same command, but you should use “false” instead of “true” at the end of the command.

“defaults write com.apple.helpviewer DevMode -bool FALSE”