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Appearance |
System wide esthetic options under OS 8 and above. Window accent color, text highlight color, font, WindowShade, Background texture or picture, & sound effects option. |
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Apple Menu Options |
Allows hierarchical sub-menus of folders that are under the Apple Menu. |
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AppleTalk |
Allows your Mac to communicate to other Macs or Mac compatible printers. It is the staple of how Macs network. (Network in older systems) |
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AppleCD Speed Switch |
Installed with System 7.1, allowing your Mac to utilize "standard" or "faster" settings for your CD-Rom drive. |
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AppleTalk Options |
suppresses unwanted router-related alerts and cures line dropping when inactive. |
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At Ease Setup |
Configures your Mac to start up with a simple finder, using the Launcher, for beginners or to keep others from getting deep into your system. |
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ATM |
(Adobe Type Manager) Caches fonts, smooths on screen and improves the printing of fonts system wide. |
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Auto Power On/Off |
This allows you to set your Mac to shut down after a specified time of inactivity or at a specific time & turn on at a certain time. This control panel works with machines that start up and shut down from the power key, without flipping or pushing a rocker arm switch or button. |
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AutoRemounter |
remounts volumes and network after waking up a powerbook from sleeping. It also disable alerts that sleeping may trigger the system to say. |
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AV Setup |
Used to control AppleVision displays |
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Backlight Control |
Allows pre-system 7.5 100-series PowerBooks dim or turn off backlighting after a period of inactivity and returns when the user hits a key. |
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Brightness |
screen brightness for Macs with brightness control buttons on the base of the unit. |
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Button Disabler |
allows disabling of buttons on the front of certain Macs. |
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Cache Switch |
To turn off the 68040 processor caching for the ability to use older applications that are not compatible with an 040 processor. |
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CloseView |
magnifies what you mouse over for people with poor eyesight. |
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Color |
System wide Window accent color & text highlight color (replaced by appearance in OS 8) |
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ColorSync |
Aids in matching the colors between on-screen images and hard copy images. |
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Control Strip |
Displays a collapsable strip on the side of your screen that lets you turn appletalk on/off, switch monitor resolution, etc. Modules can be added to the control strip folder in the system folder. |
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CPU Energy Saver |
This allows you to set your Mac to shut down after a specified time of inactivity or at a specific time. This control panel works with machines that start up and shut down from the power key, without flipping or pushing a rocker arm switch or button. |
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Date & Time |
Allows you to set the time and date on your Mac, and to toggle it from showing up on the right of your menu bar. |
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Desktop Patterns |
Lets you change the background tile of your desktop. (Desktop Pictures in OS 8 and in Appearance in 8.5+) |
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Desktop Pictures |
Lets you change the background tile of your desktop or display a picture as your backdrop. (in Appearance in 8.5+) |
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Easy Access |
Eases mouse and keyboard functions for persons with disabilities with audio and visual feedback with successful entries. |
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Editor Setup |
You can specify which OpenDoc parts to use for different kinds of file formats. |
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PC Setup |
Set options for the DOS Card. |
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Energy Saver |
This allows you to set your Mac to shut down after a specified time of inactivity or at a specific time or to start up your Mac. It also allows your monitor to shut off and/or your hard drive to spin down. |
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Extensions Manager |
Lets you start your Mac with control panels and extensions you want to start up with. Useful to find conflicts or to accomplish two separate types of work that have extensions in conflict. |
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File Exchange |
allows your Mac to read PC volumes and files. It also allows you to set which application is to open a certain file type (three character suffix) (System 8.5+) |
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File Sharing |
Start and stop network activity, see connected users and network available volumes and/or folders. Option click on connected user to send a message. |
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File Sharing Monitor |
See connected users and network available volumes and/or folders. (included in file sharing in OS 8+) |
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