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control panel
Last modified: Monday, September 20, 2004
A Macintoshutility that permits you to set many of the systemparameters. For example, you can control the type of beeps the Mac makes and the sensitivity of the mouse. On older Macs (System 6 and earlier), control panels are called cdevs.
The Windowsoperating system has a Control Panel program that offers many of the same features as the Macintosh control panels.