Preferences

• Properties: characteristics of an object, similar to attributes.
• Preferences: indicates changes, not disable: e.g. “Metric measurements” or “British Imperial measurements”. but also i prefer to disable X
• Configuration

• Settings

• Settings: “View or modify the list of things that can be set”

• Options: “We have set some things already, and give you the option to change them”
• Preferences: “Tell us how you prefer this to work”
• Properties: “Change one or more properties of this item”
• Edit: “This thing is already in a good state, but you can change it if you like”
• Configuration: “We have defaults, but they’re so barebones you probably want to configure it yourself”

no real rule.
MAX uses preferences
windows settings