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A few questions from a Newbie

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jturn00

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I am a mac newbie (I got my first mac on monday). I have a few but simple questions:

1. All of a sudden some of the desktop icons including the icon for the mac hard drive got bigger (Not the dock). Is there a way to make them smaller or adjust their size?

2. My os x boots directly into the operating system. Is there a way to have it ask for a password on boot up or when entering os x?

3. Does time machine back up the windows hd as well?

Thanks,

Jeff
 
1) Secondary click on the desktop and choose View Options, you can adjust the icon size from there.
2) I believe if you go to System Preferences, Accounts, Login Options you can set it to not auto login
3) No, Time Machine doesn't back up your windows partition.
 
jturn00 said:
I am a mac newbie (I got my first mac on monday). I have a few but simple questions:

1. All of a sudden some of the desktop icons including the icon for the mac hard drive got bigger (Not the dock). Is there a way to make them smaller or adjust their size?

2. My os x boots directly into the operating system. Is there a way to have it ask for a password on boot up or when entering os x?

3. Does time machine back up the windows hd as well?

Thanks,

Jeff
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1. When you are in Finder (just click on an empty area on the desktop to get to Finder), click on "View" from the menu bar and select "View Options". A window will pop up allowing you to adjust icon size.

2. In Finder, click on the Apple logo in the menu bar. Select "System Preferences..." A window will pop up. Select "Security" and put a check next to "Disable automatic login".

3. I'm not sure, but I doubt it.
 
jturn00 said:
I am a mac newbie (I got my first mac on monday). I have a few but simple questions:

1. All of a sudden some of the desktop icons including the icon for the mac hard drive got bigger (Not the dock). Is there a way to make them smaller or adjust their size?
Click to expand...

Do you have a MBP? You can use MulitTouch to make the icons bigger...maybe you did this accidentally
 
jturn00 said:
1. All of a sudden some of the desktop icons including the icon for the mac hard drive got bigger (Not the dock). Is there a way to make them smaller or adjust their size?
Click to expand...

Do you have multi-touch? Doing the "pinch"-gesture, when the desktop is selected changes the size of the icons.
 
Sky Blue said:
Do you have a MBP? You can use MulitTouch to make the icons bigger...maybe you did this accidentally
Click to expand...

Yes, I have a MBP and Yes I did this by accident. I love multi touch except when it does things I don't know it can do😀

Thanks for the quick responses!
 
Sky Blue said:
Do you have a MBP? You can use MulitTouch to make the icons bigger...maybe you did this accidentally
Click to expand...

That's a thing that bothers me with the multitouch. I wish you could choose which programs you can use it in. I hate having to go change the sizes all the time.
 
Is there a way to control the multitouch two finger scroll speed in bootcamp? I can control the mouse speed under the control panel but I can't figure out how to adjust the scroll speed.
 
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