--- title: "Set user and system preferences" canonical: "https://help.vicon.com/space/Tracker40/14189513/Set%20user%20and%20system%20preferences" format: markdown --- To control user and system preferences, you use the controls in the **Preferences** dialog box. To access this dialog box, from the **Settings** menu select **Preferences** or press Shift+P. ![image](media://e48a2d72-b166-4c98-8488-300a6dac648c) For information on the two sections in the Preferences dialog box, see: - [User Preferences](#UserTab) - [System Preferences](#SystemTab) **To configure settings in the Preferences dialog box:** 1. Press Shift+P or from the **Settings** menu, select **Preferences**. The **Preferences** dialog box is displayed. 2. To view or change the settings for an option, click on the option to select it. :check_mark: **Tip**: To see any available additional settings, click **Show Advanced**. To show basic settings only, click **Hide Advanced**. 3. Change the settings for each property, as needed. 4. Close the dialog box to implement the changes. Changes made to preferences are tied primarily to your login and are automatically saved to the *C:\Users\Public\Documents\Vicon\Tracker4.x\* folder. Some preferences may also be found in *C:\Users\Public\Documents\Vicon\Tracker4.x. *All preferences files are updated when you successfully close the **Preferences** dialog box. For detailed descriptions of all the settings in this dialog box, see [Preferences options](https://vicon-help.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/Tracker40/pages/14190610). > Macro (scroll-pagebreak) > Macro (anchor) ## About User Preferences At the top of the **User Preferences** section, in the Folders section, you can specify the location for calibration objects, objects and prop meshes. The default locations are: *C:\Users\Public\Documents\Vicon\CalibrationObjects, *or* ...\Objects, *or* ...\PropMeshes*. In the remaining sections, you can select or clear options for various features: - **General:** Settings that control the functionality of certain keyboard and mouse actions as well as helping to manage autosave and disk-writing behavior - **System Heath:** Options that allow you to control the visibility of system health related icons in the app - **Update Notification:** Options concerning firmware notifications - **Objects**: Options relating to object evaluation - **Connections:** Options related to streaming data from Tracker - **Channel Cache:** A text box that enables you to define the cache memory limit (MB) - **Graph Plots:** Options relating to colors, rotation unwrapping, and showing an overlay to indicate the mouse origin and target > Macro (anchor) ## About System Preferences In the **System Preferences** section, you can specify the path for Shared and User Data files. To change the current path, enter the location in the relevant data folder field or browse to it. - For **Shared** folders, the default location is *C:\Users\Public\Documents*. With this default location, shared files are saved to subfolders in *C:\Users\Public\Documents\Vicon\Tracker4.x*. - For **User** folders, the default location is *C:\Users\Public\Documents*. With this default location, user files are saved to subfolders in *C:\Users\Public\Documents\Vicon\Tracker4.x\**.*