diff --git a/examples/CoolingRates/README b/examples/CoolingRates/README
index 3611a96bd6660bc33102767d0282463efee72df2..429554ef0e4b6dd61c528ea35f62bd888e738656 100644
--- a/examples/CoolingRates/README
+++ b/examples/CoolingRates/README
@@ -15,4 +15,4 @@ is the base 10 logarithm of the hydrogen number density. Different
 metallicities may be specified in testCooling.yml
 
 Running with -z 3 -d -4 should reproduce the Fig.4 of Wiersma+09 with
-the added Compton cooling contribution.
\ No newline at end of file
+the added Compton cooling contribution.
diff --git a/examples/CoolingRates/cooling_rates.yml b/examples/CoolingRates/cooling_rates.yml
index dff84c59640ff87bebb3c26d3509e825835eb6b1..bb6c9f4b5304ee35eecf69ced4b197014453c204 100644
--- a/examples/CoolingRates/cooling_rates.yml
+++ b/examples/CoolingRates/cooling_rates.yml
@@ -15,48 +15,6 @@ Cosmology:
   Omega_lambda:   0.693         # Dark-energy density parameter
   Omega_b:        0.0455        # Baryon density parameter
 
-# Parameters governing the time integration
-TimeIntegration:
-  time_begin: 0.    # The starting time of the simulation (in internal units).
-  time_end:   1e-2  # The end time of the simulation (in internal units).
-  dt_min:     1e-10 # The minimal time-step size of the simulation (in internal units).
-  dt_max:     1e-4  # The maximal time-step size of the simulation (in internal units).
-  
-Scheduler:
-  max_top_level_cells:    15
-  
-# Parameters governing the snapshots
-Snapshots:
-  basename:            eagle # Common part of the name of output files
-  scale_factor_first:  0.92  # Scale-factor of the first snaphot (cosmological run)
-  time_first:          0.01  # Time of the first output (non-cosmological run) (in internal units)
-  delta_time:          1.10  # Time difference between consecutive outputs (in internal units)
-  compression:         1
-
-# Parameters governing the conserved quantities statistics
-Statistics:
-  scale_factor_first:  0.92 # Scale-factor of the first stat dump (cosmological run)
-  time_first:          0.01 # Time of the first stat dump (non-cosmological run) (in internal units)
-  delta_time:          1.05 # Time between statistics output
-
-# Parameters for the self-gravity scheme
-Gravity:
-  eta:                    0.025     # Constant dimensionless multiplier for time integration.
-  theta:                  0.85      # Opening angle (Multipole acceptance criterion)
-  comoving_softening:     0.0026994 # Comoving softening length (in internal units).
-  max_physical_softening: 0.0007    # Physical softening length (in internal units).
-  
-# Parameters for the hydrodynamics scheme
-SPH:
-  resolution_eta:        1.2348   # Target smoothing length in units of the mean inter-particle separation (1.2348 == 48Ngbs with the cubic spline kernel).
-  CFL_condition:         0.1      # Courant-Friedrich-Levy condition for time integration.
-  minimal_temperature:   100      # (internal units)
-
-# Parameters related to the initial conditions
-InitialConditions:
-  file_name:  ./EAGLE_ICs_12.hdf5     # The file to read
-  cleanup_h_factors: 1               # Remove the h-factors inherited from Gadget
-
 EAGLEChemistry:
   InitMetallicity:         0.014
   InitAbundance_Hydrogen:  0.70649785