Dave (David Elmo ) raved ,
OK, I can see folk are hungry for PCI mail. So I share a phenomena that happened to me yesterday. Some extensions in Mac OS 9 and maybe < 9 take effect without needing to restart the machine.
Yes , especially posts that don't beat the same dead horse. : - D
I decided that, yes, I did - after all - need to tear off the application menu so I could more conveniently switch between programs on my screen hoping no one from this list would hear about it considering I opened my big fat mouth once to declare that why would anyone want such a thing blah blah blah and could the app menu be in a better position than where it is by Apple design blah blah blah and why have useless ext turned on slowing loading time blah blah blah. Well, now, you do hear about it because I am opening my big fat mouth again. Where was I? O yeah, the app switcher ext.
LOL ! same here. I thought " who needs the desk cluttering thing anyway." Turned out I do !
OK... so I get the ext manager up (I am really fast at doing this bit. In Taxi Driver, de Niro practised drawing various guns from his person, some on home made rails and so on in front of a mirror. Well, with me, it's items from the apple menu control panel...) Hell, I've lost my thought again. O yeah, the app switcher ext. OK. So I tick it back on and decide not to restart because there was no urgency to do this, it would be there for me next time. But I try to tear the app menu off anyway (why did I try? why try something you know won't work? An irrational and irresistible urge to place in a more prominent position the huge list of apps able to be opened with 900 MB RAM? Of all the gobsmacking... It came off. It tore off without restart.
Now, what can be said of such a thing? One thing: is it REALLY an extension? Perhaps it is not a full blooded one. It pretends to be an extension. Sure, it roams about between the ext folder and the disabled ext folder and can be ticked and unticked in the ext manager ... but this is just a convincing front... had me fooled for years... Have I unearthed a joke by Apple? Is it like the pedestrian traffic lights in Sydney which are centrally timed and do not really respond to button pressing?
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I make all kinds of fantasy plans for making umpteen extension sets for every need I can think of but just live with my extension clogged set day to day. I don't have the time or inclination to infinitely tweak my OS. Wish there were a Wizard Utility to do it for me ( Hear me now all you SW developers out there.! ) It takes two minutes for my machine to boot so I leave it on mostly. And I get tired of reconnecting the network connection. And don't find the password keychain system too friendly and trustworthy so I don't use it.
By the time I learn ( and USE ) everything about OS 9 Apple will have named OS X for the last feline on the phylogenetic scale ! 8^}
-- Adrian
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