- Taking Advantage of Custom Settings
- Moving the Dock Around
- Changing the Dock's Size
- Customizing the Dock's Behavior
- Changing the Way the Finder Works
- Changing Your Desktop Picture
- Changing Your Screen Saver
- Changing Your Login Icon
- Changing Your Mac's Language
- Adding Login Items
- Increasing Your Mac's Security
- Adding New Dashboard Widgets
- Making Your Own Widgets
- Creating Custom Network Locations
This chapter is from the book
This chapter is from the book
This chapter is from the book
Increasing Your Mac’s Security
Whether these settings are important to you depends on how vulnerable your Mac is to snoopy intruders. If your computer is in a dorm room or an open office, or if it’s a laptop, you’ll probably want to put at least some of these measures in place to ensure that unauthorized people can’t use it.
Choose Apple menu, System Preferences.
Click the Security & Privacy button to see your choices.
Click the General button, and then click the Require password check box to make sure that only you can wake up the computer when it’s sleeping.
Click the check boxes next to the other options to turn them on or off.
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Note: Learning to Live Together
To learn about ways to get along when you share your Mac with other users, turn to Chapter 11, “Sharing Your Mac with Multiple Users.”
Note: The GateKeeper
A new group of settings in the Security & Privacy preferences enables you to control where your applications come from. You can choose to allow only programs from the Mac App Store, those from the App Store and from Apple’s certified developers, or any program at all. This way you don’t have to worry about damage caused by incompatible or malicious programs.