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Switching to Mac
Part Five of Ten:
System Preferences
Today, in part 5 of our 10 part series on switching from the PC to the Mac, we’ll look at System Preferences.
Now the System Preferences on the Mac are equivalent to the Control Panel on the PC. And here I have a Windows XP Virtual Machine loaded and I have Control Panel open so you can see all the different options that are available there.
On the Mac, you can access System Preferences form the Apple Menu and go into System Preferences or you can also click an icon at the back. Now here’s the full System Preferences menu and it’s divided into sections like Personal options, Hardware, Internet and Network System and other.
Some of the things that might use most often will probably be on Desktop and Screensaver. And here the Screensaver tab is highlighted and you can see the different Screensavers and pick the one that’s of interest to you. You can click Desktop and pick from a wide range of Desktops that come with your Mac.
Now when you’re ready to go to something else, this Show All Buttons is very handy because you click it and it takes you back to the full display of System Preferences. So that way you're in something like Dock, you can focus on those options and when you're ready go back and fix something else, you can click Show All and you see the whole thing. Here’s Speech, which you can toggle on Setting Speech Commands to control your Mac, click Show All and go back to the full menu. Time Machine for backing up your Mac, here’s Date and Time, accounts for having different users access your Mac, Bluetooth, for managing the wireless devices and lot some more.
So you can see, these System Preferences that you control every aspect of your Mac and that concludes Part 5.
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