August 2009
Beginner
512 pages
11h 9m
English
If you know you're going to be away from your Macintosh, you can wait for your Macintosh to go to sleep automatically or you can make it go to sleep right away.
If you have a laptop, the fastest way to make it go to sleep is to close the screen.
Of course, you can't close up a desktop like a laptop, but you can define a hot corner on your desktop or laptop to tell your Macintosh to sleep when you move your mouse to that corner. Here's how to define a hot corner to put your Macintosh to sleep:
Click the Apple menu and choose System Preferences. A System Preferences window appears.
Click the Desktop & Screen Saver icon that appears under the Personal category. A Desktop & Screen Saver window appears.
Click the Screen Saver ...