Thanks Viggie, it's perfect

You mean those red yellow and greed buttons? Upper left hand corner? Don't think so.

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Yup, those are the ones I was referring to

Here's another one for you: I just installed Firefox. It permanently places a square icon on my desktop, and I can't get rid of it. Is there a way? In addition, in order to open it, it's a 2 step process. With every other app. I have in my Dock, a single click will open it, but with Firefox, you have to single click the icon first, and then you get a pop up window that looks like a Firefox planet with a couple of grayed out iconns next to it. You then need to double click on the planet to actually start the program. Is this how yours operates? If not, tips please .

I don't know what square icon your refering to unless your speaking about the download dmg. Normally the applications are placed in your HD application folder. Anything else on the desktop is left over from the dfownload process and can be placed in the trash.

To place a shortcut in the dock locate the application in the hard drive. (not your home folder) From the application folder you locate the firefox planet icon and drag it to the dock. What you get is an automatic icon on the dock and the application remains in the application folder. But just to make sure send me a picture of the part of the desktop in question.

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"What you hear in a great jazz band is the sound of democracy. “The jazz band works best when participation is shaped by intelligent communication.”
Harmony happens whenever different parts get to form a whole by means of congruity, concord, symetry, consistency, conformity, correspondence, agreement, accord, unity, consonance…….

Thank's Barry! I can't get rid of the square Firefox on the desktop, but I did figure out how to keep a one click button on the dock. After I opened FF, I went down to the icon on the dock, right mouse clicked > keep icon on dock. That worked. I'll just ignore the square icon on the desktop. My only option when I right mouse click on it is "eject FF", when I do that it removes the program.

OH Ok glad it worked out. Your learning. Thats great.

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Hey Super Greg,
Congrats on your laptop purchase!
How is the learning curve going from Windows to Apple O/S?
Thinking about replacing my old laptop which I use everyday.

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It has been a very steep learning curve for me so far, but on the other hand, it is well worth it. The biggest difference is the "lingo", everything on a Mac is called something different than it's counterpart on Windows. I'm starting to get the hang of it though .

Here's that how to for adding system alerts. Like "you've got mail". Take your time with this as it will give you some idea into the inner workings of the OS. http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=106409

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Harmony happens whenever different parts get to form a whole by means of congruity, concord, symetry, consistency, conformity, correspondence, agreement, accord, unity, consonance…….