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For as long as anybody can remember, the Mac mouse has had one button and the PC mouse has had two. Why? Apple presumably felt that a one-button mouse was simpler and more efficient, and nearly every other hardware manufacturer thought that more functionality could be crammed into additional mouse buttons.
Battle of the buttons? A standard two-button mouse and the Apple ADB Mouse II.
That is, until Apple released the Magic Mouse - a mouse with four programmable buttons. No exit mac os. This was a major milestone for Apple and Mac users everywhere, but truth be told, the Mac OS supported right-clicking for years before that - even back in the days of Mac OS 9! If you have a Mac, you need to know how to right-click whether you have a two-button mouse or not. We'll show you how.
What Can Right-Clicking Do For Me?If you have a Mac, and you haven't been right-clicking, you've been missing out on a lot of cool functionality. There are loads of options in the 'contextual menus' - menus that appear when you right-click - that you just can't find anywhere else. Here are some examples:
When you're typing an email message in Apple's Mail application and you misspell a word, Mail underlines it in red to indicate that it thinks it's misspelled. But how do you correct it? When you right-click on the misspelled word, Mail provides correct spelling suggestions. Simply select one of the correct spellings to substitute.
If you've found a file on the Internet that you want to save to your Mac, you can right-click on the link to save it.
There are lots of shortcuts hidden in the Desktop contextual menu. For example, if you'd like to change your desktop, all you have to do is right-click on the Desktop and select Change Desktop Background.
How to Do ItBoth display previews of documents on the right side of the Explorer/Finder windows, let you choose which app to open a file with, and let you easily share files with a right click.
Mac OS X launched on March 24, 2001. The 1990s were rough for Apple. Until 1997, when Steve Jobs took the helm again, the company attempted to right itself by creating a plethora of CE products.
Then click a window on the other side of the screen to begin using both windows side by side. If you're using macOS Mojave, High Sierra, Sierra, or El Capitan: Click and hold the full-screen button in the upper-left corner of a window. As you hold the button, the window shrinks and you can drag it to the left or right side of the screen.
The easiest way to right-click is to hold down the ctrl key before you click your mouse button. This works on any Mac!
But holding down the ctrl key gets old, especially when you're an old-hand at right-clicking. If you're serious about right-clicking, you'll need to get a mouse with more than one mouse button. All of Apple's new desktop computers (except the Mac mini) ship with the Mighty Mouse. To configure the right mouse button on the Mighty Mouse, select System Preferences from the Apple menu, and then select Keyboard & Mouse. Select the Mouse tab.
Make sure the right mouse button is set as the Secondary Button, as seen in the screenshot above. If you don't have Apple's Mighty Mouse, you can always pick up an inexpensive, two-button USB mouse at your local electronics store. Kensington's Mouse-in-a-Box comes with a 5 year warranty and costs a mere $8.
For Apple Laptop OwnersIf you own a Macbook or Macbook Pro, you can configure your trackpad for right-clicking. (Some older iBooks and Powerbooks also provide this feature.) Simply open the Trackpad options in System Preferences and make sure the Place two fingers on trackpad and click button for secondary click button is checked.
After checking this box, you'll be able to right-click by placing two fingers on the trackpad and clicking. If you have an older Apple portable which doesn't support this feature, you may want to look into iScroll2, a free application that may add this functionality to your trackpad.
No matter how you decide to right-click, you should definitely start doing it on a regular basis. It'll save you a lot of time!

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Tuning Mac OS X PerformanceThis FAQ provides recommendations for optimizing Mac® OS X performance. Additionally, it provides advice and links to advice for troubleshooting certain Mac OS X performance problems. Comprehensive advice on this topic can be found in the 'Performance' chapter of our book Troubleshooting Mac OS X.
Optimizing Mac OS X performanceRAM, RAM, and more RAMMac OS X loves RAM. Short of buying a new Mac or a processor upgrade, adding RAM is the best way to improve Mac OS X performance. Install the maximum amount of RAM that your Mac will accept and your budget will allow.
Maintain ample free space on your startup diskMac OS X makes extensive use of Virtual Memory (VM), which requires free disk space on your startup disk, aka your boot volume. If you startup disk is nearly full, your Mac's performance will degrade considerably.
See our 'Problems from insufficient RAM and free hard disk space' FAQ to determine if you have sufficient RAM and free disk space to get the best performance from Mac OS X. 
For advice on increasing the available space on your hard drive, see our 'Freeing space on your Mac OS X startup disk' FAQ.
Turn off the eye candyWhile I imagine everyone is impressed the first time they see a window minimized to the Dock with the Genie effect, this entertainment has a performance cost. You can gain some speed by avoiding the eye candy.
Make the Dock less entertainingOpen System Preferences > Dock.
Select Scale Effect in the Minimize Using field.
Deselect the Animate Opening Applications option.
Disable window effects
Tools such as Cocktail and TinkerTool provide options to disable effects, such as zoom and rectangle, that appear when windows and files are opened and closed. The actual settings these utilities change are already available in Mac OS X but are 'hidden' as there is currently no provision for changing them in System Preferences.
Avoid using an animated desktop background
While entertaining, an animated desktop background steals cycles from other processes on your Mac. It is better to have a static picture as your desktop background if performance is important.
Skip the iTunes® Visuals
Running iTunes Visuals in the background consumes valuable processor cycles, especially when you are performing other computing tasks. It is not so much displaying the visuals as the computational effort needed to synchronize them with the music in real time that makes them so processor-intensive.
Close nonessential Dashboard Widgets
While Dashboard widgets do not use the CPU unless Dashboard is open, they consume both Real and Virtual Memory (VM) at all times after you open Dashboard.
Under Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger®, you can the resources consumed by individual widgets in Activity Monitor. Activity Monitor is located in the Macintosh HD > Applications > Utilities folder. 
Under Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard® and later, individual widgets do not appear in Activity Monitor: the DashboardClient process is the only indication that Dashboard is running. 
You can reclaim these resources by closing nonessential widgets. To close a widget:Open Dashboard.
Press and hold the Option key.
Move the mouse pointer over a widget you wish to close. The widget's Close button (X) appears in the upper-left corner of the widget.
Click the widget's Close button.
Repeat steps 3-4 for other widgets you wish to close. 
Repair Permissions after installing new software

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Tuning Mac OS X PerformanceThis FAQ provides recommendations for optimizing Mac® OS X performance. Additionally, it provides advice and links to advice for troubleshooting certain Mac OS X performance problems. Comprehensive advice on this topic can be found in the 'Performance' chapter of our book Troubleshooting Mac OS X.
Optimizing Mac OS X performanceRAM, RAM, and more RAMMac OS X loves RAM. Short of buying a new Mac or a processor upgrade, adding RAM is the best way to improve Mac OS X performance. Install the maximum amount of RAM that your Mac will accept and your budget will allow.
Maintain ample free space on your startup diskMac OS X makes extensive use of Virtual Memory (VM), which requires free disk space on your startup disk, aka your boot volume. If you startup disk is nearly full, your Mac's performance will degrade considerably.
See our 'Problems from insufficient RAM and free hard disk space' FAQ to determine if you have sufficient RAM and free disk space to get the best performance from Mac OS X. 
For advice on increasing the available space on your hard drive, see our 'Freeing space on your Mac OS X startup disk' FAQ.
Turn off the eye candyWhile I imagine everyone is impressed the first time they see a window minimized to the Dock with the Genie effect, this entertainment has a performance cost. You can gain some speed by avoiding the eye candy.
Make the Dock less entertainingOpen System Preferences > Dock.
Select Scale Effect in the Minimize Using field.
Deselect the Animate Opening Applications option.
Disable window effects
Tools such as Cocktail and TinkerTool provide options to disable effects, such as zoom and rectangle, that appear when windows and files are opened and closed. The actual settings these utilities change are already available in Mac OS X but are 'hidden' as there is currently no provision for changing them in System Preferences.
Avoid using an animated desktop background
While entertaining, an animated desktop background steals cycles from other processes on your Mac. It is better to have a static picture as your desktop background if performance is important.
Skip the iTunes® Visuals
Running iTunes Visuals in the background consumes valuable processor cycles, especially when you are performing other computing tasks. It is not so much displaying the visuals as the computational effort needed to synchronize them with the music in real time that makes them so processor-intensive.
Close nonessential Dashboard Widgets
While Dashboard widgets do not use the CPU unless Dashboard is open, they consume both Real and Virtual Memory (VM) at all times after you open Dashboard.
Under Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger®, you can the resources consumed by individual widgets in Activity Monitor. Activity Monitor is located in the Macintosh HD > Applications > Utilities folder. 
Under Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard® and later, individual widgets do not appear in Activity Monitor: the DashboardClient process is the only indication that Dashboard is running. 
You can reclaim these resources by closing nonessential widgets. To close a widget:Open Dashboard.
Press and hold the Option key.
Move the mouse pointer over a widget you wish to close. The widget's Close button (X) appears in the upper-left corner of the widget.
Click the widget's Close button.
Repeat steps 3-4 for other widgets you wish to close. 
Repair Permissions after installing new softwareRun the Repair Disk Permissions function of Disk Utility after installing any third-party application that employs its own installed. This is to avoid the possibility that a rouge installer may have reset permissions on system-related files or folders. Repairing permissions after installing a third-party application via drag-and-drop is unnecessary. For additional details, see our 'The Repair functions of Disk Utility: what's it all about?' FAQ.
Disable the automatic protection features of utilitiesUtilities that constantly monitor your system for performance, automated data recovery, or viruses also use processor cycles. There is an obvious trade-off between these functions and Mac OS X performance. If performance is critical, disable the automatic protection features of such utilities, usually via their Preferences.
Disable or remove unnecessary fontsLoading hundreds or thousands of fonts by default can significantly degrade Mac OS X performance. This is especially true if you use Font Book to install fonts and have not adjusted its preferences: by default, Font Book automatically enables newly-installed fonts.
If you have hundreds or more fonts to manage, consider using Font Book or a third-party font-management application to create, enable, or disable font collections when required. Game1 (jpk1234) mac os.
Perform regular maintenanceWhile Mac OS X is relatively maintenance-free, by regularly performing the tasks outline in our 'Maintaining Mac OS X' FAQ, you will help assure the best performance from your system. At a minimum, run the Mac OS X maintenance scripts regularly.
Check the processor performance settingSome Macintosh computers can decrease the processors speed to conserve energy. To adjust the processor speed, click Options in System Preferences > Energy Saver and make the appropriate adjustments in the Processor Performance menu. Note that:
If Options is unavailable in Energy Saver preferences, your Mac does not have this capability.
If you are using a laptop on battery power, increasing the processor performance will shorten the amount of time you can use the computer before connecting it to its charger.
Troubleshooting performance problemsActivity Monitor is the place to start when troubleshooting performance problems. See our 'Troubleshooting with Activity Monitor' FAQ for details on troubleshooting with Activity Monitor. 
Resolving common performance problemsSystemUIServer: high CPU usage and menu extrasThe Right Side Of Town Mac Os UpdateIf Activity Monitor (Leopard, Tiger, Panther) or Process Viewer (Jaguar) indicates that the process SystemUIServer is consuming an inordinate amount of CPU, the problem is very likely related to a third-party menu extras. Menu extras are the icons on the right side of the Apple menu bar other than the Spotlight icon (Leopard, Tiger).
Third-party menu extras that use an active Internet connection can result in very high CPU usage if the network connection becomes busy or blocked. The chances of this increase if you are simultaneously using streaming media and a menu extra that requires an Internet connection.
The Right Side Of Town Mac Os XQuitting your third-party menu extras should resolve the problem. For additional information, see our 'Troubleshooting Startup and Login Items' FAQ.
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