November 2007
Beginner to intermediate
223 pages
4h 34m
English
Content preview from Mac OS X Leopard Pocket Guide
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Chapter 4. System Preferences
Before Mac OS X came along, you’d have to fumble through the Control Panels to set up your Mac, but now, Apple has made all these “panels” self-contained in the System Preferences application. When you want to set up your Mac just for you, System Preferences is the application you’re looking for. To launch the System Preferences application, simply click on its icon in the Dock (it’s the one that looks like a silver window with three gears inside), and the window shown in Figure 4-1 appears.
Figure 4-1. The System Preferences window
System Preferences is home to a series of preference panels you use for configuring your Mac. For example, if you wanted to select Mac OS X Leopard’s new Word of the Day screensaver, you would launch System Preferences by clicking its icon in the Dock, and then click Desktop & Screen Saver. This opens the preference panel shown in Figure 4-2. It has two tabbed “panes,” aptly named Desktop and Screen Saver. To change the settings for your screensaver, click the tab for the Screen Saver pane, then select a screensaver from the list on the lefthand side of the window.
Figure 4-2. The Desktop & Screen Saver preference panel
As you may have noticed in Figure 4-1, the System Preferences are separated into four categories: Personal, Hardware, ...
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