Adding Items to the Apple Menu
The Apple Menu is a quick way to access your applications.
Step 1. Open the Apple Menu Folder. The path is Macintosh HD
(or whatever your Startup disk is named)>System Folder> Apple
Menu Items.
Step 2. Add an item to the Apple Menu. To add an item, make
an Alias of that item and then drag the Alias to the Apple Menu
Items folder. (To make an alias of an item, select it and then
holding down the Control Key, click on the item and choose Make
Alias from the pop up window. This will create another version
of the item but the title will be in italics will have the word
"alias" at the end of it. You can rename this if you like.
Step 3. Access your alias from the Apple Menu. Go up to the
Apple in the top left corner and click on it. Your item will be
listed in the drop down menu.
Step 4. Create a New Floored the Apple Menu. To create a
folder in the Apple menu, simply click inside the Apple Menu
Items Window (Macintosh HD>System Folder>Apple Menu Items) and
then go up to File>New Folder or click Command-N. Give the
folder a name that relates to the contents you'll be adding. To
rename the folder, click once on the text of the folder and when
the text selection comes up, type in a new name. Click Return.
Let's create a new folder called Test Folder. The folder
doesn't have any contents so it won't have the black arrow
indicating there are submenus. Simply drop some items into the
folder to add submenus to the Test Folder.
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