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.

For information on the two sections in the Preferences dialog box, see:

• User Preferences
• System Preferences

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.

   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\<userName> 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.

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

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\<userName>.