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PART IV:PART IV
System Preferences
Before Mac OS X came along, you’d have to fumble through
the Control Panels to set up your Mac, but with Mac OS X,
Apple has made all these “panels” self-contained in the Sys-
tem Preferences application. When you want to set up your
Mac just for you, System Preferences is the application you’re
looking for. To launch the System Preferences application,
simply click on the light-switch icon in the Dock, and the
window shown in Figure 33 appears.
Figure 33. The System Preferences window
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Part IV: System Preferences
System Preferences is home to a series of preference panels
you use for configuring your Mac. For example, if you
wanted to select Mac OS X Tiger’s new Apple News screen-
saver, you would launch System Preferences by clicking its
icon in the Dock, and then click Desktop & Screen Saver.
This opens the preference panel, shown in Figure 34. It has
two tabbed “panes,” aptly named Desktop and Screen Saver.
To change the settings for your screensaver, click the tab for
the Screen Saver pane, then select a screensaver from the list
on the lefthand side of the window.
As you may have noticed in Figure 33, the System Prefer-
ences are separated into four categories: Personal, Hard-
ware, Internet & Network, and System. When you click one
of the icons, the window changes to reflect that particular
panel’s settings. To go back to the main view, click the Show
All button (View
➝ Show All Preferences, or use the key-
board shortcut,
c-L). You can also select View ➝ Organize
Figure 34. The Desktop & Screen Saver preference panel
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