Working with the System Preferences Utility

The System Preferences utility enables you to set preferences for many areas of Mac OS X. If you read through the previous chapters, you already have some experience with this application. However, because you will use the System Preferences utility so frequently, it is worthy of a more detailed look.

You can open the System Preferences utility in various ways, including the following:

  • Choose Apple, System Preferences.
  • Click the System Preferences utility icon on the Dock.
  • Open the Applications directory and then open System Preferences using its icon.

NOTE

Because the System Preferences utility is so frequently used, Apple should have provided a keyboard shortcut to open it, but didn't. If you ...

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