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Product Description:
Apple did a superb job with its new Fast User Switching feature in Panther (Mac OS X 10.3), but for users with long names, the associated menu item is a terrible waste of precious Menu Bar real estate.
Wouldn't it be nice if you could access the feature through a compact, icon-sized Menu Bar icon? WinSwitch does exactly that, closely matching the performance and style of the Apple-provided menu, but without all the bulk. In fact, it even corrects some problems with Apple's menu by eliminating certain "daemon" users which shouldn't show up in the list, and by improving the alignment of user icons in the menu. WinSwitch gives you rapid access to the Accounts preference pane, and is completely customizable, allowing you to choose from four different menu bar styles: Standard icon, User picture, Full username or Short username.
Wouldn't it be nice if you could access the feature through a compact, icon-sized Menu Bar icon? WinSwitch does exactly that, closely matching the performance and style of the Apple-provided menu, but without all the bulk. In fact, it even corrects some problems with Apple's menu by eliminating certain "daemon" users which shouldn't show up in the list, and by improving the alignment of user icons in the menu. WinSwitch gives you rapid access to the Accounts preference pane, and is completely customizable, allowing you to choose from four different menu bar styles: Standard icon, User picture, Full username or Short username.
What's new in this version:
- Increased size of the user picture in the menu bar (now 19x19 pixels instead of 16x16).
- Swedish localization by Christoffer Araskog.
- Italian localization by Michele Zangrossi.
- Fixed bug that could prevent "Login window" and other menu items from appearing at the bottom of the menu.
- The same fix corrects the "items listed twice" issue (bug #303).
- Minor cosmetic changes to source code to improve readability.
- Now uses Install version 1.2.1, which includes several bug fixes and other enhancements.
Operating System Requirements:
This product is designed to run on the following operating systems:
- Mac OS X 10.3
Additional Requirements:
- Mac OS X 10.3 or later
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| Ease of Use: | (5.0) |
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Winswitch on Intel - Version: 3.1, 2/17/2006 09:46AM PST
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rimshot4za
Although the developer has said Winswitch is compatible with Intel based Macs under Rosetta, it doesn't work.
Downloaded and installed yesterday on a new 20" 2Ghz Intel iMac. Winswitch failed to activate itself.
Downloaded and installed yesterday on a new 20" 2Ghz Intel iMac. Winswitch failed to activate itself.
WIll not load at startup in Tiger - Version: 3.1, 5/8/2005 01:29PM PST
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ebernet
Although 3.1 works fine if you manually load WinSwitch.menu, it will not persist through restarts and must be loaded each time in Tiger. I hope a fix is soon coming.
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- WIll not load at startup in Tiger
tried to install in leopard 10.5.5 without success. macbook pro.
got this error message:
/Users/Shared/Activate\ WinSwitch.command ; exit;
Deactivating menu extra with identifier "com.apple.menuextra.appleuser" ... Success.
Deactivating menu extra with identifier "net.sourceforge.menucracker" ... Success.
Deactivating menu extra with identifier "com.wincent.WinSwitch" ... Success.
Activating menu extra with bundle path "/Library/Menu Extras/WinSwitch.menu" after item number -1 ... Failure.
Error: fatal error while adding bundle "/Library/Menu Extras/WinSwitch.menu" aborting processing
Activating menu extra with bundle path "/Library/Menu Extras/WinSwitch.menu" after item number -1 ... Failure.
Error: fatal error while adding bundle "/Library/Menu Extras/WinSwitch.menu" aborting processing
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