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Disable the translucent menubar in Leopard, disable menu items for security, disable icon caches, set history limits, erase recently used files, prevent your dock from being modified, turn off all system animations, increase the speed at which windows resize, change which format screenshots are taken in, set a default name and location for screenshots, disable a secondary processor, disable the startup chime, and even change the login window picture!
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MacPilot Features:
1. Finder
Show icons on the Desktop
Show hidden files and folders
Enable the "Cut" menu item
Disable custom icons on removable and remote volumes
Prevent .DS_Store creation on a network
Toggle window state restoration on restart
Disable Finder alternating row colors
Turn off interface sound effects
Add a "Quit Finder" menu item
Toggle Finder visual effects
Hide & disable Finder menu items
Show POSIX path in window titles
Change the Finder Label Line Count
Disable Desktop Icons
Increase icon grid padding
Modify max. characters shown in file names
Restrict access to certain Finder operations
2. Dock
Disable launch animation
Prevent bounce notifications
Enable single application mode
Spring load all items
Toggle feature to turn icons for hidden applications transparent
Automatically hide/show the Dock
Limit the Dock to only open applications
Disable Leopard's 3D Dock appearance
Toggle the Dock shadow
Toggle the Dock magnification
Highlight stack items on mouse-over
Include a "Recent Items" stack
Lock the size, position, orientation, contents, magnification, and effect of the dock
Change the orientation, pinning, and effect
3. Safari
Show the Debug menu
Disable native PDF support
Buffer text drawing
Disable RSS support
Enable background printing by default
Print headers and footers by default
Verbose logging
Always check for world leaks
Enable the tab bar
Forget that Netscape, Mozilla or IE bookmarks were imported
Show the Safari build number in the window title
Enable tool-tip mouse overs for links
Log JavaScript exceptions
Reduce timed delay before rendering a page and scrolling
Disable and delete the cache
Turn off site icons or change their storage location
Change cache & history limits and options
4. Mail
Enable bundle plugins
Enable Java & JavaScript
Disable auto check for new mail on launch
Show invisible control characters in message source
Use Plain Text message content by default instead of HTML
Allow JavaScript popup windows
Automatically add invitations to iCal
Change bundle compatibility version
Enable numerous logging options
Increase the debugging log level
5. Disks
Automatically mount disks without user login
Skip disk image checksum verification
Show every partition in Disk Utility
Include the Disk Utility debug menu
Show advanced disk image options in Disk Utility
Add Eject menu to the menubar
Change UPS and Battery disk spindown time
Toggle the sudden motion sensor for drives
View detailed disk information such as partition type, free space, boot flags, and more.
Verify disk permissions
Repair disk permissions
Enable or disable journaling
Verify and repair disks
Repair Mac OS 9 permissions
6. Network
View detailed network statistics and setting information for each device
Change over 50 advanced network settings manually
Optimize for broadband (cable modem, DSL, PPPoE, Satellite, and more!)
7. Sharing (Server)
List the server on AppleTalk and/or Bonjour
Allow guest and/or root login
Create home folders if they do not exist
Enforce home folder quotas
Grant admin users root access
Allow admins to masquerade as other users
Force Mac OS X and Mac OS 9 admins to only see shares instead of all disks
Auto-restart the file server on crash
Enable bit locking
Change the server name
Enable the server greeting, and choose to only send once
Enact a different server permissions model
Change the TCP Message Quantum
Increase the maximum server connections
Change the TTL of the Server Token Key
Increase the TTL of the Reconnect Token
Modify the maximum thread limit
Specify a maximum number of guests
Tinker with the tickle time
Change the AFP Server port
Determine which encoding to use with Mac OS 9 clients
Modify the authentication mode
Set the reconnect flag
Notify connecting users if the server is full
Enable SSH Tunneling
Enable idle disconnect for admins, guests, active users, and registered users
Allow clients to sleep, and for how long
Set the idle disconnect time
Create an idle disconnect message
Enable logging of file creations, deletions and opens, folder creations, logins, and logouts
Change the activity and error log size and retention
8. System
Disable a secondary processor
Mute the startup chime
Show kernel panics on screen
Use Power Button as NMI
Limit the amount of system RAM
Show active screen corners
Change the startup mode to Normal, Verbose, Safe or Single User
Specify custom boot arguements
Change the default umask for file permissions
Modify the default behavior of the crash reporter
9. Sharing (Client)
Show the authentication type
Allow clear text passwords
Show warning for clear text passwords
Display login greeting
Immutable directories
Soft auto-mount directories
Display SSH warning
Allow, Force, and/or Require SSH
Force Kerberos
Soft-mount volumes
Use default username
Use short username
Log debugging information
Allow reconnects
Allow Add to Keychain option
Search Keychain for username and password
Change the debug level
Specify a new reconnect interval, max retries, and timeout
Choose an idle and active timeout
Modify the WAN Threshold and Quantum
Change the TTL of the file and directory caches
Enable new mount flags
Force a new default username
10. Power
Reduce the processor speed
Wake on modem ring
Toggle the option to wake when the laptop lid is opened
Determine if the laptop should wake when the power source is changed
Dynamically reduce processor speed based on load
Sleep when power button pushed
Display sleep dims screen, not turns it off
Wake for ethernet activity
Change hibernation mode
Move the hibernation file
Schedule power events to wake, sleep, shutdown, or startup the computer
11. Login Window
Disable >console access
Hide admin, local, network, and other users
Enable Kiosk mode
Remove the restart, shutdown or sleep buttons
Use text fields instead of icons
Show input menu
Show admin host info (ip, date/time, OS version, etc.)
Change desktop picture
Modify the retries until password hint
Set welcome text
Enable a startup delay
12. Tools
Lock or unlock files or folders
Visify or invisify files or folders
Delete files or folders securely with root permissions
Verify preference file integrity
Erase unused preference files
Wipe Access Control List Data (ACL)
Erase icon cache
Clear recent files list
Clear user cache
Erase .DS_Store files from a given folder
Force empty trash
Create symbolic link
Slim binaries to PPC or Intel only
Search and rebuild the locate database
View, search, and print UNIX manuals
Run periodic system maintenance scripts
Rebuild Help Viewer database
Rebuild Launch Services Database
Install Archives preferences pane
Update or rebuild prebinding
Launch UNIX CUPS Printing System configuration manager
Flush System DNS Cache
Show the system screensaver on the desktop
Reset the printing system
Remove unwanted language files
Hide, disable, delete, and clean login items
View detailed Spotlight information for volumes
Delete Spotlight index
Toggle Spotlight on desired volumes
13. Other
Specify new default system fonts for applications, messages, labels, tool tips, palettes, title bars, and more
Set a new text smoothing limit
View, empty, delete, print system logs
Show Debug Menu in Address Book, iCal, or Apple Remote Desktop 3
Show QuickTime info window at launch
Option-click moves cursor to Terminal
Terminal window focus follows mouse
iPhoto asks for launch after hot plug
Use expanded print dialog as default
Dashboard developer mode
Point iTunes Music Store links to Library
Disable the Terminal scrollbar
Play high definitiion Front Row trailers
Disable dashboard
Show Expos¨¦ blob
Disable internet DMG functionality
Enable picture-in-picture Expos¨¦ mode
Change the default screenshot format, name, and destination
Decrease window resize speed
Modify the drag and drop delay
Enable Quartz interface scaling
Disable menubar transparency in Leopard
Change the scrollbar arrow orientation
Modify the recent items limit
View a complete system profile
Display a character map for any font, including ASCII, Hex, Octal, Binary codes and Mac and PC Key combos
Show the syetm Keyboard Viewer
View a complete list of system key combinations
Study the list of registered internet ports
Search a complete database of Mac Error Codes with descriptions |