Special menu (Mac OS)

The Special menu was a feature of Apple's Mac OS from its inception until the last release of "Classic" Mac OS, Mac OS 9.2.2. This menu was responsible for managing the hardware and other system functions. It was always the rightmost menu on the menu bar in the Finder. In prerelease version of Classic Mac OS, the Special menu had its name changed to other terms beginning with the letter S, such as Snowman or SneezeSeason as a way of determining the development version from a screenshot.

System 6

In System 6 the Special menu allowed the user to choose an alternate startup program to be run instead of the Finder at boot time. This feature was replaced in System 7 by the Startup Items folder in the System Folder.

Mac OS

Applications	Calculator Chooser Drive Setup DVD Player Finder Graphing Calculator Keychain Access PictureViewer PowerTalk QuickTime Player Network Browser Scrapbook Sherlock Software Update Stickies System Information SimpleText

Developer	MacsBug Macintosh Programmer's Workshop ResEdit

Technology	Alias Apple menu Balloon help Bomb Error Command (⌘) Control Panel Control Strip Creator code Hierarchical File System HFS Plus Keychain Labels Macintosh File System Option (⌥) OSType PICT QuickDraw QuickTime Resource fork Special menu Startup Screen System folder System suitcase Type code WorldScript

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