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Chapter 1: Getting Your Mac Up and Running

Log out of your Mac, and click the Sleep icon button in the login window that

appears.

Choose ➪ System Preferences, go the Energy Saver system preference (see Chapter

28), and set the automatic “go to sleep” time by using the Computer Sleep slider. That

makes the Mac go to sleep automatically after it’s been inactive for the specified time

(meaning you haven’t touched the mouse, touchpad, or keyboard and that no appli-

cations are running that are reading from or writing to a disk).

You can wake up your Mac in any of the following ways:

If you have a MacBook, simply open the lid.

Press any key on the keyboard. (To prevent the keypress from inserting text into an

active document or text field, it’s wise to get into the habit of using the Shift key as

your wake-up key.)

Click or move the mouse or touchpad.

Note that when you awaken a sleeping Mac, you may get a login window in which you have to

enter your password. The login window also has two icon buttons: Cancel, which puts the

Mac back to sleep, and Switch User, which lets you log into a different user account. (The

a password to reawaken a Mac, as Chapter 26 explains.)

Shutting down the Mac

While you can leave your Mac permanently running or let it go to sleep, you may want to

completely switch it off at the end of the day. That reduces energy usage and makes it less

likely the Mac could be damaged due to heat buildup or an electrical surge.

You can shut down a Mac several ways, including:

Press the power button on your Mac (or your keyboard if it has one), and click Shut

Down or press Return when the confirmation dialog box appears onscreen.

If you are using a keyboard with an Eject key, press Control+Eject and click Shut

Down or press Return in the dialog box that appears.

Choose ➪ Shut Down. Click Shut Down or press Return when the confirmation dialog

box appears, or you can wait 60 seconds and the Mac shuts down automatically.

Log out and click the Shut Down icon button in the login window.

When you go through the shut-down process, Mac OS X tells all open applications to quit and

proceeds to shut down. If any applications have unsaved data, you are prompted with a Save

dialog box before shutting down.

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