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MPG Table of Contents   Page 1: Sizing and Setting Up Your Mac Boot Drive Page 2: Installing a Just-Right Mac System Page 3: Separate Data from System and Applications Page 4: High Performance Mac Configuration Page 5: Testing Mac Memory and Drives Page 6: Choosing the Right Mouse Page 7: Boot With the 64-bit Kernel Page 8: Set Finder Preferences Page 9: System Preferences (General) Page 10: How to Unhide your Library Folder on OS X Page 11: Set a Two-button Mouse Page 12: Keyboard Shortcuts Page 13: Disable the Caps Lock key Page 14: Declutter the Dock Page 15: Turn Off iTunesHelper Page 16: Exclude Items from Spotlight Page 17: Apple Mail Unread Mailbox Setup Page 18: Time Machine for Always-on Backup Page 19: Relocating the Home Directory Off the Boot Drive Page 20: Relocating Mail Off the Boot Drive Page 21: Relocating Documents Folder Off the Boot Drive Page 22: Relocating iTunes and iPhoto Libraries

System Preferences (General)

There are numerous system preferences, as well as Finder preferences.

Access System Preferences from the Apple menu.

The pages that follow discuss some of the settings that are best changed to other values.