The minimalist guide to Mac System Preferences

Mac users need to make time to get intimate with System Preferences, but you can use that time more effectively with these simple tips – they should help you navigate through the preferences with ease.

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When you launch System Preferences from the Dock you’ll be presented with a hopefully familiar window showing all the different categories you can choose to explore – but if you know which Preference you are looking for, you can get to the relevant one much more quickly with this tip: Just right-click and hold the System Preferences in the Dock and a pop-up menu appears listing all the preferences, just choose the one you need to open it fast. There’s a nifty keyboard shortcut, too: Alt and F2, which opens up the Display system pane, then type Command-L. Another quick way to get there is to use Command-Space to open Spotlight where you type sys, select System Preferences and hit Return.

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