M.A. Hochberg’s Technology for Teaching

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Finder Settings for Student Computers

These are for OS 10.3 and 10.4. Staff settings are almost identical. For those computers, skip the first item: “uncheck Hard disks.”

In Finder Preferences,
General: uncheck “Hard disks”
Sidebar: only these should be checked
Hard disks
Connected servers
Removable media
Desktop
Home
Applications
Advanced: all should be unchecked

From the Finder menu
Go to View/Show View Options
Check “Show icon preview”

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