How do I turn Spaces and Expose off?

You've not visited the 'Expose and Spaces' pane of system prefs then?

In the Exposè preference pane, set al the pull-down menus to -. In the Spaces tab click Enable Spaces and then remove all the applications in the window below by selecting the application and clicking on the minus ➖ button below the window. Uncheck the Enable Spaces box and it should stop any behavior of both.

Nicholas Baker wrote:
Can anybody tell me how I can turn off Spaces and/or Expose?

Spaces is easily turned off by going to System Preferences and clicking on the Exposè and Spaces section:

Click on the Spaces tab and uncheck the box next to "Enable Spaces."

Click on the Exposè tab and next to "All windows," "Application windows" and "Show Desktop," choose the dash "-" in each dropdown menu.

I find them intrusive and unnecessary to my style of using Mac and I'm getting a bit frustrated when it "swoops" into view every time I take a little pressure off my mouse.

It sounds like you might have some unusual settings selected in those preferences panes? The defaults for the Exposè features are function keys (e.g. F9, F10, F11, etc.), not anything involving pressure on your mouse.

If you want to use Exposè but don't want it to be so easily invoked, choose options in those dropdown menus that aren't easily clicked by mistake. 🙂

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