### Configure Preferences

You can use the Preferences page to configure your Guardian Preferences and customize your Guardian environment.

To configure your Guardian Preferences, do the following:

1. Open the Preferences configuration page.

You can use either of the following methods to open the Preferences configuration page:

- Press Ctrl+Shift+P.
- Select Window > Preferences from the titlebar menu.

2. Open a folder and click on a category name to display the preferences in that category.

The left pane of the Preferences configuration page is a navigation tree containing an extensive series of hierarchical folders and subfolders. Each folder and subfolder in the hierarchy is a category of preference attributes that you can configure.

The top level folders are as follows:

- General
- Guardian
- Help
- Install/Update

Note: | For a detailed description of all Preference page folders and parameters, see Preferences on page 115 in Reference.

3. (Optional) Click Apply to apply your preference settings for the current category, or click Restore Defaults to restore the default values for all Preference page parameters.
4. When you have finished setting your preferences for each category, click OK.

This applies and saves all of your new Preference page settings.