Access System Preferences Menu in Mac OS X Yosemite

You're watching VisiHow. In this tutorial, we're going to show you how to access the System Preferences menu on your Mac running OS X Yosemite by using the dock.

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   In order to do this, we're going to scroll down on our Mac to the very bottom of the screen

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   This will open up the dock for us. On the dock, there will be an option for "System Preferences". It looks like a giant gear inside of a silver-gray box, and it is also labelled "System Preferences".

   

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   When we find "System Preferences", we're going to give it one click

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   One click will launch or open the "System Preferences" menu

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   On "System Preferences", we will see a series of four rows of icons with an optional fifth row. The fifth row is anything installed or added that is not part of Mac OS X Yosemite, or from Mac. In this case, Flash Player is an example. We may have net downloaders or other things that will also appear here.

   

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   Now that we have accessed the "System Preferences" menu, we will be able to click or change any of the options here

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   We do have a separate tutorial on how to do that, and would encourage changing any of the options that we like, such as "Language & Region", or "Security & Privacy".

   

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   When we're finished, we're going to simply go over to the red "x", and give that a single click

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   This red "x" is on the top left corner of the "System Preferences" window.

   

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   Once we've done that, our "System Preferences" menu will be closed, and we will be back on the desktop

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   This concludes our tutorial on how to access the System Preferences menu on a Mac using OS X Yosemite and the dock

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You're watching VisiHow. In this tutorial, we're going to show you how to access the System Preferences menu from the main Apple menu on your Mac running OS X Yosemite.

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   To do this, we're going to need to locate the bar that runs across the top of every Mac desktop screen

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   In this case, it is a gray bar. Others may be a different color depending on system settings, or any personal preferences or adjustments that have been made.

   

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   We now need to look to the far left side of this menu where we will see the traditional Apple icon with a bite taken out of it

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   When we find that icon, let's give it a single click or tap on the touchpad.

   

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   Once we've done this, we will have a menu open up

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   The second option available to us is "System Preferences". When we find "System Preferences", give it a single click of the mouse, or a single tap on the touchpad.

   

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   This will open the "System Preferences" menu

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   The "System Preferences" menu is a series of different adjustable options and details that we can change for our Mac OS X Yosemite install. Additionally, other things, such as the "Flash Player" or third party applications or options we may have installed, will be also be available. We can change them in the bottom row, or fifth row of this menu. If we would like to change something, we can click it, or find our tutorials on how to change those options.

   

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   Otherwise, navigate up to the top left corner of the "System Preferences" window, and click on the red circle with the black "x", and this will close it

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   This concludes our tutorial on how to access the System Preferences menu from the Apple, or main menu, of your Mac running OS X Yosemite

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