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Authored by: AHunter3 on Jan 24, '02 10:20:49PM

My method of replacing the Dock: move it from Core Services to some custom-created folder elsewhere and reboot. The OS doesn't care if it has a Dock or not, it just insists on using it if it can find it.

OK, I suppose you want to be able to launch applications and switch between open apps...surely you know of third-party utilities that will do that, right? (If not, I recommend X-Assist, but your taste and mileage may vary). Trash can on Desktop? Boot in a classic version of MacOS X; make the file MacOSXBootVol:Users:Yourname:.Trash, which is an invisible file), visible with your favorite invisible-file management utility (I still use DeskZap, thank you Bruce Tomlin circa 1991); make an alias to it. Put the alias in the MacOSXBootVol:Users:Yourname:Desktop folder. Set the .Trash file back to invisible.



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