







Preferences
Now we are getting really deep into the System Folder. In fact you won't have much need to spend time mucking about in here. However, you need to know a couple of things about Preferences files. Every application on your hard drive automatically creates at least one Preferences file in this folder.

Preferences are generally user customizations for a particular application, e.g. what cursors you use in Photoshop, what measurement system you use in PageMaker, how often Word reminds you to save, the custom keypad map for a flight simulator game, etc. Every time you set a custom option that will be used again and again in a program, that setting is recorded in a Preferences file that application maintains in this folder.
Some programs also save essential information such as your registration number here. Other programs create their own sub-folder within the Preferences folder and use it for storage of important files, e.g. Netscape keeps all of your bookmarks as well as cached files here.
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