Hot Corners-What are they?

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Hot Corners-What are they?

This may be a beginner question, but I am a beginner and I haven't been able to find a clear answer to what hot corners are and what they do. So basically my questions are,
What are hot corners?
How do you activate them?
I'm pretty sure that I know what they are and I set one up to start a screen saver, but I haven't been able to figure out how how to make them work...to make the screen saver start.
Thanks,
Colleen

Mac OS X (10.4.8)

Posted on Dec 25, 2006 7:42 PM

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Answer 1

Niel

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Dec 25, 2006 8:29 PM in response to pinklollipopgirl

Hot corners can have special meanings to the screensaver; if the cursor is left in a hot corner, it will override the standard delay before the screensaver activates and optionally start it immediately, or not start it at all.

To set up a hot corner, open the Desktop & Screen Saver pane of System Preferences, click on Screen Saver, press the Hot Corner button, and then choose an action from the drop-down menu corresponding to that corner.

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Answer 2

Dec 26, 2006 5:35 AM in response to Niel

thanks!

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