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Apple Script for system preferences

Hi all,

In our college we all share the iMacs with same user account, say- Anonymous. So when some other user comes and uses my system, he/she generally changes some of the properties in system preferences. It always wastes some of my precious time when I restore its setting according to mine.

So, I am thinking -

can I make an apple script which when executed sets setting in system preferences according to my choices?

Thanks in advance for any help, suggestion or useful link!

Miraaj

+2  A: 

macosxautomation.com has a nice article about changing systempreferences using applescript at http://www.macosxautomation.com/applescript/features/system-prefs.html

Nikolaus Gradwohl  2010-08-09 09:12:45
thanx :) .... I will definitely look at it!
Miraaj  2010-08-09 10:14:30
specifically, I want to set some of the properties of Mouse Preferences but in the beginning I am unable to retrieve all its properties using this script:tell application "System Events" tell "mouse preferences" get properties end tellend tell.Can you suggest some solution for it?
Miraaj  2010-08-09 10:40:03
tell application "System Preferences" set current pane to pane id "com.apple.preference.mouse" tell current pane get properties end tellend tell
Nikolaus Gradwohl  2010-08-09 11:33:57
@Miraaj: If this is the correct answer, please accept it to give credit.
Philip Regan  2010-08-09 12:57:34
@Philip... I have given credit to Nikolaus... cheers!
Miraaj  2010-08-09 13:41:41
@Nikolaus ... thanx :)
Miraaj  2010-08-09 13:42:07
@Nikolaus.... can you suggest me how to achieve this : http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3439705/apple-script-to-set-primary-button-secondary-button-and-other-properties-for-mou
Miraaj  2010-08-09 13:53:28

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