Mac OS X Snow Leopard on Demand

Chapter 5. Setting System Preferences

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• Understand System Preferences

• View System Preferences

• Lock and Unlock Preference Settings

• Change Appearance Options

• Set Up the Desktop

• Set Up Screen Savers

• Set the Date and Time

• Change Language Options

• Change Text Substitution Options

• Save Energy and Manage Power

• Select a Startup Disk

• Change the Way a CD & DVD Starts

• Control Sound

• Recognize Your Speech

• Let Mac Do the Talking

• Set Universal Access Options

• Explore and Use VoiceOver

• Set Ink Preferences

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Introduction

System Preferences allows you to customize various parts of Mac OS X, such as the appearance of your desktop, your computers date and time, the way CDs and DVDs start up when you insert them, or use speech recognition ...