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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