Application Wizard lets you now choose what types of volumes (hard disks, external disks, removable media, connected servers, inactive disks) appear in the Special menu and allows you to eject disks, partitions, and servers and mount ejected disks.
To specify what volumes appear in the Special menu, open the Configure Special Menu dialog, double-click Volumes in the Special Menu list, and select the desired types. To quickly eject a disk with more than one partition, hold down the Option key and select any of its partitions in the Special menu. To eject a single partition, hold down the Control key and select it in the Special menu. To mount a disk or partition that has been ejected, make sure you are showing inactive disks and select the ejected disk or partition in the Special menu.
On macOS 10.5 or later, the Recent Documents and Recent Servers items can now be added to the Special menu so that you can quickly open recently used files and connect to recently used servers.
The Activity Monitor command has been added to the System Memory submenu so that you can quickly open Activity Monitor and learn more about the processes running on your computer and their memory usage.
The Aperture Library submenu now fully supports Aperture 3.
The iPhoto Library submenu solves some incompatibilities with iPhoto ’09, fixes some bugs, and lets you see how your published albums appear online.
The opening of aliases from the Special menu has been enhanced. In addition to that, you can now resolve aliases in the Special menu by selecting the ”Resolve aliases” checkbox in the Configure Special Menu dialog.
Application Wizard lets you now disable previews for files located on shared computers and file servers. To disable previews on shared computers and servers, select the ”Do not preview files on connected servers” checkbox in the Previews panel.
The Switch to Previous command has been added to the Switch menu.
Single application mode allows you now to temporarily show multiple applications so that you can use them together. To link applications so that they are visible together, highlight them in the Switch menu and press the Command key.
Application Wizard lets you now define keyboard shortcuts to quickly accomplish frequent tasks. To work with keyboard shortcuts, open the Keyboard Shortcuts pane of the Application Wizard preferences.
If you use hot keys to display the Open, Quit, Switch, and Special menus, you can now choose where menus appear on the screen. Besides the pointer position, you can now display menus in a screen corner or centered on the screen. To edit menu positions, open the General pane of the Application Wizard preferences, click a menu position button, and select the desired position.
A bug, introduced in version 2.4, causing the Open and Special menus not to show the Classic Applications Folder item and the Start/Stop/Restart Classic commands when Classic is installed has been fixed.
A bug, introduced in version 2.4, causing the Applications panel not to list non-bundled applications has been fixed.
Several other minor bugs have been fixed and several minor improvements have been introduced.