

This was added to help the user navigate the increasingly larger disks that were starting to appear. Aliases: small files that "pointed to" other files on the system.The line between extensions and control panels was blurred, extensions basically being GUI-less control panels. In a similar fashion, system " extensions" were also improved by placing them in their own folder (rather than the System folder's root), and holding down the Shift key during boot-up would disable them.

The Control Panel became the Control Panel s - they became individual "windows of options" accessible from the Control Panels folder in the Finder, instead of being accessible using the previous Control Panel Desk Accessory in earlier system versions.

Along with various user interface improvements for AppleTalk setup, System 7 also included a basic file sharing server allowing any machine to publish folders to the AppleTalk network. This allowed items to be put in the trash on different volumes, each one having its own Trash.
