[sangam]

I just got a new mac laptop couple days back , my first time using a mac machine. It came with OSX Tiger.

I have been playing around with it for few days but dunno what keeps resetting my settings in the OS, i.e my account settings in iChat, iMail ( including my emails!!) , my songs in iTunes and apps I install.. I keep losing them!!

how can I prevent this ?

[Alexis]

How are you quitting programs? You need to quit properly, not through the dock, or else your prefs won't be saved.

[sangam]

its not just one app...I lose my settings in all of them!!!

[MacHeadCase]

Welcome to Mac-Forums, sangam.

Since this problem is across the board, just like Alexis above I am wondering how you actually quit your applications. Do you do a Command (or Apple key) + Q before leaving your applications?

[sangam]

Hello MacHeadCase

Yes I do use command+q key to quit applications.