How do I turn off expose?

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How do I turn off expose?

My girlfriend somehow has gotten expose hard-wired into the trackpad of her G4 iBook - whenever she moves the cursor a certain way, expose appears.

How does she turn this off? - she has no use for the function.

(personally I could never figure out what expose is supposed to be for... am sure it's very useful, but I can't imagine what the application would be...)

thanks,

W

powerMac G5 (single processor, darn it!); 4 GB RAM, Mac OS X (10.4.9), World's Largest iTunes library: 850 GB / 172K tracks (on SATA RAID array)

Posted on May 12, 2007 6:32 AM

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Answer 1

May 12, 2007 6:37 AM in response to WillFriedwald2

Have you checked System Preferences > Dashboard & Exposé?

http://www.apple.com/macosx/features/expose/

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Answer 2

msuper69

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May 12, 2007 8:26 AM in response to WillFriedwald2

Exposé is great for finding a particular window when you have lots of applications running with lots of windows open.

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Answer 3

May 20, 2007 11:10 AM in response to WillFriedwald2

Are you kidding me? Exposé is one of the coolest parts of OS X. It's killer for multi-tasking.

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Tom Older

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May 20, 2007 11:30 AM in response to Devin Crutcher

I never saw the point of éxpose either after I moved from OS9, and have it turned off. I use its function keys as shortcut keys for other applications.

To turn éxpose off go to system preferences>dashboard & exposé
There are 12 scroll menus now visible, four under Active Screen Corners, eight under Keyboard and Mouse Shortcuts.
In every single scroll menu, scroll until you get the simple single dash - in the window instead of a key or a corner indicated. Leave each window as just a dash. That means, when you have done this, that all are turned off, since none are linked to hot keys any more.

I don't know if it's really necessary, but I also went to System Preferences>Keyboard & Mouse> Keyboard Shortcuts and removed the tick from the box beside Dock, Exposé and Dashboard.

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