Working with the System Preferences Application

The System Preferences application enables you to configure many aspects of Mac OS X Lion. The application is organized into panes, based on the specific areas you can configure, as shown in Figure 5.2. To configure an area’s preferences, click the icon for that area and use the resulting controls to configure that area. For example, to set the sound preferences for your Mac, click the Sound icon and use the tools on the resulting Sound pane to configure sound-related aspects of Mac OS X Lion.

Figure 5.2. The System Preferences application enables you to configure many aspects of how Mac OS X Lion works and looks.

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