## Preferences

The Preferences page enables you to customize the BEA Guardian environment.

These are the different ways to open the Preferences page:

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

The Preferences page is a dialog box that enables you to select from the following main categories:

- General - settings that control the appearance of, interaction with, and startup of Guardian. The ones most useful for Guardian are:

- Keys - enables you to change Guardian's Keyboard Shortcuts.
- Startup and Shutdown - enables you to change whether Guardian prompts you for the Guardian Workspace location when starting.

- Guardian - settings that control Guardian's data interactions and appearance. The ones most useful for Guardian are:

- BEA Support - enables you to specify whether to use Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) encryption when creating support cases, and whether to use a proxy server when updating Guardian. Please note that Guardian uses 128 bit open source encryption for SSL. BEA Support also enables you to specify the hostname, port, and (optionally) the username and password for authentication for a proxy server. This is the proxy server that the Support Case Wizard would use to create a BEA Support Case.
- Proxy - enables you to add proxy servers to use when activating domains.

- Help - settings that control how Guardian help content is displayed.
- Install/Update - settings that control how the Guardian application is updated. The Automatic Updates section enables you to tell Guardian to automatically contact the BEA Guardian update site to find new signatures and application updates. The “Enable HTTP proxy connection” field enables you to specify the host address and port of the proxy server that the Update Wizard would use to access the BEA update server to download new signatures and software updates.

#### Related Tasks

- Submit Support Case
- Automatically Update Guardian
- Activate Domain

#### Related Reference

- Keyboard Shortcuts
- Main Menu