I?m happy to share here TidyMenus (a.k.a. NoLabel 2.0), a simple
little Control Panel for System 7 and 8 that can:
\- Hide/Show the Help menu in all applications
\- Re-show the Help menu across all applications at any time, just by
opening the Control Panel and unchecking the box, without restarting
(this was the hard part ? to my knowledge no other INIT/cdev offers
this feature)
\- Hide/show the Label menu in the finder under System 7. The hidden
Label menu appears and operates as a hierarchical submenu under the
?File? menu ? as in System 8. You can pop it back to the menubar or
return it to a submenu with no restart required.
\- Works correctly for non-English systems, unlike the original
NoLabel
\- You can hide the Label menu ?out of the box? just by opening the
cdev and checking the box without installing anything or restarting
(though of course you?ll want to install this if you want to keep the
Label menu hidden permanently)
This is an update to the original NoLabel
<
https://macintoshgarden.org/apps/nolabel> , which I wrote in 2020.
NoLabel simply allowed hiding the Label menu in the Finder under
System 7 ? something I always found pretty useless, especially on
black-and-white compact Macs. I also like that without the Label menu,
the menu bar just reads ?File Edit View Special?, as it was meant to
do dating back to 1984. ?
Pro tip: the ?L? or ?H?/??? keys in the control panel are shortcuts
for the ?Hide Label menu? and ?Hide Help menu? checkboxes,
respectively.
By the way, I also patched Helium in 2020 to remove the nagware
screen, see <
https://macintoshgarden.org/apps/helium-211> .
Discussion here at 68kmla:
<
https://68kmla.org/bb/index.php?threads/presenting-tidymenus.45619/>
Compatibility
Architecture: 68k
Systems 7 and 8
