Control Strip control panel

The Control Strip is gone. However, several of its traditional features survive in the form of menulets—icon/pop-up menus in your menu bar that let you monitor and control dial-up settings, monitor resolution, color depth, sound volume, battery levels, date and time, and so on. You make these menulets appear using checkboxes in the corresponding panes of System Preferences (such as Sound, Energy Saver, and Date & Time), the Internet Connect application, and so on.

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