Logging Out, Shutting Down

1.9. Logging Out, Shutting Down If youre the only person who uses your Mac,finishing up awork session is simple.
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Logging Out, Shutting Down1.9. Logging Out, Shutting DownIf youre the only person who uses your Mac,finishing up awork session is simple.Youcan either turn off the machine or simply let it go to sleep, in any of several ways.1.9.1. Sleep ModeIf youre still shutting down your Mac after each use, you may be doing a lot morewaiting than necessary. Sleep mode consumes very little power, keeps everything youwere doing open and available, and wakes up almost immediately when you press a keyor click the mouse.To make your machine sleep, do one of the following: • Close the lid. (Hint: This tip works primarily on laptops.) • Choose Sleep. • Press Control-Eject (or Control-F12, if you dont have an Eject key). In the dialog box shown in Figure 1-27, click Sleep (or type S). • Press the Power button on your machine. On desktop models, doing so makes it sleep immediately; on laptops, you get the dialog box shown in Figure 1-27. • Hold down the Play/Pause button on your remote control for three seconds. All current Mac models except the Mac Pro come with Apples tiny white remote control. Figure 1-27. Once the Shut Down dialog box appears, you can press the S key instead of clicking Sleep, R for Restart, Esc for Cancel, or Enter for Shut Down. • Just walk away, confident that the Energy Saver setting described on Section 9.9.4285 will send the machine off to dreamland automatically at the specified time.1.9.2. RestartYou shouldnt have to restart the Mac very often—only in times of severe troubleshootingmystification, in fact. Here are a few ways to do it: • Choose Restart. A confirmation dialog box appears; click Restart (or press Enter). Tip: If you press Option as you release the mouse on the Restart command, you wont be bothered by an Are you sure? confirmation box. • Press Control- -Eject. (If you dont have an Eject key, substitute F12.) • Press Control-Eject to summon the dialog box shown in Figure 1-27; click Restart (or type R).1.9.3. Shut DownTo shut down your machine completely (when you dont plan to use it for more than acouple of days, when you plan to transport it, and so on), do one of the following: • Choose Shut Down. A simple confirmation dialog box appears; click Shut Down (or press Enter). Tip: Once again, if you press Option as you release the mouse, no confirmation box appears. • Press Control-Option- -Eject. (Its not as complex as it looks—the first three keys are all in a tidy row to the left of the Space bar.) • Press Control-Eject (or Control-F12) to summon the dialog box shown in Figure 1-27. Click Shut Down (or press Enter). • Wait.If youve set up the Energy Saver preferences (Section 9.11.4) to shut down the Mac automatically at a specified time, you dont have to do anything.1.9.4. Log OutIf you share your Mac, you should log out when youre done. Doing so ensures that yourstuff is safe from the evil and the clueless even when youre out of the room. To do it,choose Log Out Chris (or whatever your name is). Or, if youre in a hurry, pressShift- -Q.When the confirmation dialog box appears, click Log Out (or press Enter), or just waitfor two minutes. The Mac hides your world from view and displays the Log In dialogbox, ready for the next victim.Tip: Last time: If you press Option as you release the mouse on the Log Outcommand, you squelch the Are you sure? box.Logging out is described in much more detail in Chapter 12.