Subdividing the Launcher

If you like to use the Launcher to easily access applications or documents, you can create your own Launcher categories. To do so, open the Launcher Items folder, which you'll find in your System Folder. Any folder whose name starts with a bullet character is a category. To make your own category, press [command]N to create a new folder, then press [option]8 to create the bullet character, and name your folder whatever you want the category to be called. Now, just drag into that folder an alias to any application or document you want to appear in that category. Although the Launcher control panel began life only on Performas, it proved to be so handy that it became a standard part of the Mac OS starting with System 7.5. To open the Launcher, choose Launcher from the Control Panel's submenu of your Apple menu. Or you can set it to open every time you start up your Mac. To do so, open your General Controls control panel and check the Show Launcher At System Startup option.

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