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To reorder them at any time, just hold down
COMMAND
and click and drag
them. Ensure the other menulets slide out of the way to make space before
releasing the mouse button, and be careful not to drag the icon off the menu
bar before releasing the mouse button because that will remove the menulet.
Note that it's impossible to move the Spotlight and Notification Center icons,
which always remain in the top-right corner of the screen, and several icons
that belong to third-party apps might also be immutable.
You should be able to restore any missing icon by opening Finder, hitting
SHIFT
+
COMMAND
+
G
, typing
/SYSTEM/LIBRARY/CORESERVICES/MENU EXTRAS
, and then double-
clicking the
.MENU
file corresponding to the missing menulet.
Tip 337
Wake Troublesome Macs
If you open the lid of your Mac and find that it's having trouble waking
up—perhaps it refuses to let you type your password or perhaps the screen
backlighting illuminates but the screen itself remains black—then simply
close the lid for a minute or so and reopen it. Often things will work properly
the second time around.
If after this the computer still refuses to wake, you'll need to forcibly reboot
your computer, which you can do by holding down the power button for five
seconds. Once the computer has powered down, press the button again nor-
mally to boot.
If the wake-from-sleep problems continue, try resetting the PRAM—see
Tip
Tip 338
View the True Size of an Image
You can change a setting within Preview that, when you opt to view a photo-
graph at its actual size (View→Actual Size), what you see will mirror the
physical dimensions of the image when printed at native resolution. Putting
