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Posted: Sat Feb 20, 2010 9:50 am |
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Thankfully I just learned how to organize aliases in the Apple Menu, which is extremely helpful when you have alot of apps. I'm also wondering if it's possible to add the 'Shut Down' or 'Restart' functions to the Apple Menu? Thanks for any help!
David
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Posted: Sat Feb 20, 2010 11:48 am |
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Shut Down and Restart are available from the "Special" menu in the Finder, which makes them pretty convenient. Pressing the power button on the keyboard, will bring up a dialog box, which provides options to shutdown and restart.
I seem to recall that a shut down application was included with some version of the OS, or was included as part of the software for some machine (laptops?).
Also of course one could create a simple AppleScript and put it in the Apple Menu. There might even be such an Apple Script included as part of the Speech recognition package. (You do not need to use Speech Recognition to use the scripts included with the package.)
bill
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Posted: Mon Feb 22, 2010 3:54 pm |
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Thanks for the info Bill. Anybody where I could find a simple shut down/restart script to add to the Apple Menu? This would really help.
David
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Posted: Tue Feb 23, 2010 1:49 pm |
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Since shutdown is a menu item in the finder, the complete AppleScript for shutting down your computer is:
tell application "Finder" to shut down
Similarly "tell application "Finder" to sleep" is the AppleScript for having the computer go to sleep.
To have some fun you could:
tell application "Finder" to say "I am going to shut down now."
tell application "Finder" to shut down
The above 2 line script when invoked will have the computer say "I am going to shut down now" using the default voice and then turn off.
You can enter this into the AppleScript editor and simply do a save as Application and place the item in your Apple Menu Items folder inside the System Folder.
bill
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Posted: Tue Feb 23, 2010 2:11 pm |
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One more thing:
Friends don't put the Shut Down script in friends Start Up folder 
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Posted: Tue Feb 23, 2010 6:57 pm |
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Thanks for the responses guys, but I decided to do a Google search for 'shutdown script' and actually found two. One that brings up a ShutDown/Cancel dialog box and the other adds a Restart option, which works perfectly under the Apple Menu.
David
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