Under OS X, you remove (uninstall?) menu items by CMD-dragging them off of the menu! I did not now that until just now. I love OS X.
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haha, yes I too learned that a few months ago.
Bigger question – how do you get things back in the list when your parents somehow manage to get rid of things without knowing what they’re doing? :)
Which menu items can you do this with? I knew about things like the clock or volume control, but it doesn’t work for everything.
I just did it for Plazes, which I otherwise wasn’t sure how I could remove.
in finder type cmd+shift+g and paste /System/Library/CoreServices/Menu Extras/ into it. there are all the stock menu extras. give a double click and you have them again. no system preference hunting required.
Michael,
What menu items are you talking about?
Do you mean buttons on toolbars? Or, literally, do you mean items in drop-down menus?
I’m confused.
The menu is the top bar with all the menu items on it; the icons on the right; like volume or wifi signal strength. Those. :)
Yeah, one of the things I love about the Mac is that things just make sense. This is a classic example.
Oh. We hardcore Mac Geeks refer to that as the “Menu Bar” and the pull-down thingies as “Menus.” I understand now.
Not only can you remove the items in your Menu Bar with cmd-drag; you can re-arrange them, too. This might be obvious, or not. There are, however, some Menu Bar Items you can not remove or move, like the clock and the SpotLight icon in Tiger.
Seth, the clock is moveable for me in Tiger. As far as I know, only the Apple menu and the Spotlight menu are static across the whole OS and everything else varies by application or preferences.
I don’t use the standard clock anymore; I use CalendarClock. And as it turns out, it doesn’t move either :(
Yeah, I use CalendarClock too. And it won’t move. But, since it replaces the system clock, I thought that the clock wouldn’t move.
So, Mike, we’re both right. :)
Not uninstall, just remove. But I guess you know that by now…
And if you go to /System/Library/CoreServices/Menu Extras/ you can ctrl click on a Menu Extras and view the content. That way you can change the appearance of them. Inside Contents/Resources/ you’ll find the images that are displayed in the menu bar.