System Preferences

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System Preferences is an application bundled with OS X that allows you to change settings on your Mac. It is similar to the Control Panel in Windows and supersedes the Control Panel that was part of Mac OS Classic.
The System Preferences window displays several different options called preferences panes (instead of control panels). It lists the default preference panes included with OS X, as well as any third party preference panes that have been installed. While the default options have changed since the first version of OS X was released in 2001, many of them are the same. In OS X 10.10 (Yosemite), the System Preferences application includes the 30 preference panes listed below.
When you click an preference pane icon in System Preferences, it displays controls that allow you to modify certain settings. For example, you can use the Desktop