The menu bar of Mac is a tool which is very useful, all the little extra icons that are displayed on the menu bar provides you with the necessary information about the status of your Mac. You also have the benefit if gaining the necessary access to a few settings with the help of the quick access menu. Right from your WI FI to even switching your login account, everything can be done easily. If you want to work with the various keyboard layouts, you can do so by just changing the icon of the input methods.

Apart from the OS X, you can also see a few third party apps that will be displayed also offers you a few features which are very similar. This would include access to functions which are oft used and even other kinds of status information. While all this may be really helpful, however it does add on to the clutter In order to reduce that, there are various things that can be done, they are as follows

· Remove the extra menus that are not needed, this would be really helpful as this way you have access to only the ones that are very important.

· Change the positions of the menus, you can go ahead and organize them based n the system items and the third party icons

· Add extras to the menu bar by going ahead and selecting the ones that you need.

· Organize them on the basis of how often you use them, this would be really helpful and beneficial for you to access it as and when you need.

By taking the control over the menu bar, you are actually helping yourself as this way you can save time and also be more efficient. At the end of the day, the whole idea of the menu bar is to make life a little easy for you.