22. Customizing Your Mac

Who Should Read This Chapter:

If you want to learn how to get your Mac to look and behave differently than the default settings, this is the chapter for you. You may discover that there are plenty of things that you can easily change to personalize your Mac and get it to work the way you want it to.

It is time to start learning things about your Mac and have your Mac start learning things about you. You can make a variety of choices about how you want your Mac to look, act, and react to your commands.

Let’s examine how to customize your account and set up new ones, how to change the way the desktop and Finder look, and how to customize OS X for your location. We’ll also look at third-party utilities to customize ...

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