MATC Mac System Preferences Defined:
Below are all of the standard settings that your MATC Macintosh system preferences should be set for. If they differ by name or appearance, it may be due to versions of the operating system. The following illustrations are based on Macintosh OS X 10.4.7. In addition, these screens are taken from my personal Macintosh therefore, the names will reflect my personal settings, but your names could reflect your personal settings in much the same manner. Please look carefully to notice the best setting for your Mac.
I will be highlighting the area of concern in some system preferences.
Personal Settings:
Appearance system preference
MATC Macintosh Standard System Preferences
Dashboard and Expose
Desktop and Screen Saver
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Dock
International
See edit list on the next page.
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Edit list for the language list. Please keep English checked and active.
Formats
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Input Menu. This is where the keyboard viewer is located.
Security-No Master Password!
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Spotlight
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Hardware Settings
Bluetooth Settings
Bluetooth Devices
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Bluetooth Sharing
CD’s and DVD’s
Displays
Show displays in menu bar for easy access to changing the display resolutions.
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Energy Saver. Set the computer to never sleep everywhere!
Energy Saver-Laptop Battery Settings
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Keyboard and Mouse
Trackpad-for Laptop users
Notice the new feature for new Macintosh Laptop Users!
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Mouse-Mighty Mouse users
Bluetooth Settings
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Keyboard Shortcuts
Print and Fax Main
The printers will be personalized for each person and each Mac. Your Macintosh should have and will have different printers listed.
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Print and Fax-Fax
Print and Fax-Sharing
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Sound-Sound Effects
Sound-Output
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Sound Input
Attention Macintosh Laptop users, your internal microphone maybe in the speaker area! Check Apple’s website for more information on where your Macintosh microphone maybe located.
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Internet and Network
.Mac Account settings
.Mac Sync settings
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.Mac iDisk
.Mac Advanced
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Network-Main Window
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Ethernet Built In
AppleTalk Window-Off by default
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Ethernet
Airport Settings
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Airport-Preferred Networks
QuickTime Register
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QuickTime Browser
QuickTime Update
QuickTime Streaming
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QuickTime Advanced
Sharing-Services
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Sharing-Firewall
Sharing-Internet Sharing
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System Settings
Accounts
Login Options
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Account Picture
Account Login Items
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Account Parental Controls
Date and Time
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Time Zone
Clock
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Software Update
Speech Recognition
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Text to Speech
Startup Disk
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Universal Access-Seeing
Universal Access-Hearing
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Universal Access-Keyboard
Universal Access-Mouse and Trackpad
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Flip4Mac-Windows Media Player for Macintosh
Flip4Mac-Movie
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Flip4Mac-Audio
Flip4Mac-Update
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Flip4Mac-Upgrade
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