When Apple announced iTunes 10 they made a few major and minor changes. One of those changes was making the minimize, close and maximize buttons vertical in the iTunes application. This may get annoying because the rest of the applications on the Mac OS have horizontal buttons. In this tutorial we will show you how to change your buttons back to the original horizontal alignment.

Changing The Buttons To A Horizontal Alignment

1.  Make sure that you quit out of iTunes by clicking on “File”and then clicking “Quit”.

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2. Once you have exited iTunes, open Terminal. You can do this by searching for it in Spotlight or by launching it from your dock.

Launching Terminal

3. When you are in Terminal, copy and paste this code into your Terminal window. This code will change the iTunes buttons from the vertical alignment to the older horizontal alignment. Code: defaults write com.apple.iTunes full-window -1

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Changing The Buttons Back To A Vertical Alignment

1. Quit out of iTunes, do this the same way as we have shown you before.

2. Once you have quit out of iTunes, launch Terminal. Once Terminal has fully opened copy and paste this code into Terminal: defaults write com.apple.iTunes full-window -int -0

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Thanks for reading, we hope this little hack helped you. Check back soon for more Mac related posts.