The System Preferences Window

You can open System Preferences in dozens of ways:

  • Choose its name from the menu.

  • Jump directly to a System Preferences pane by pressing Option as you tap keys on the top row of your keyboard: Option- for Mission Control preferences, Option-volume key (, , or ) for Sound prefs, Option-brightness keys ( or ) or Option-keyboard-brightness key ( or ) for the Displays prefs. At that point, you can click Show All () or press ⌘-L to see the full spread.

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