- **Show CLI hints**. Displays CLI hints and tips when running Docker commands in the CLI. This is turned on by default. To turn CLI hints on or off from the CLI, set `DOCKER_CLI_HINTS` to `true` or `false` respectively.

- **Enable Scout image analysis**. When this option is enabled, inspecting an image in Docker Desktop shows a **Start analysis** button that, when selected, analyzes the image with Docker Scout.

- **Enable background SBOM indexing**. When this option is enabled, Docker Scout automatically analyzes images that you build or pull.

- {{< badge color=blue text="Mac only" >}}**Automatically check configuration**. Regularly checks your configuration to ensure no unexpected changes have been made by another application.

  Docker Desktop checks if your setup, configured during installation, has been altered by external apps like Orbstack. Docker Desktop checks:
    - The symlinks of Docker binaries to `/usr/local/bin`.
    - The symlink of the default Docker socket. 
  Additionally, Docker Desktop ensures that the context is switched to `desktop-linux` on startup.
  
  You are notified if changes are found and are able to restore the configuration directly from the notification. For more information, see the [FAQs](/manuals/desktop/troubleshoot-and-support/faqs/macfaqs.md#why-do-i-keep-getting-a-notification-telling-me-an-application-has-changed-my-desktop-configurations).

## Resources

The **Resources** tab allows you to configure CPU, memory, disk, proxies,
network, and other resources.

### Advanced

> [!NOTE]
>
> On Windows, the **Resource allocation** options in the **Advanced** tab are only available in Hyper-V mode, because Windows manages
> the resources in WSL 2 mode and Windows container mode. In WSL 2
> mode, you can configure limits on the memory, CPU, and swap size allocated
> to the [WSL 2 utility VM](https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/wsl/wsl-config#configure-global-options-with-wslconfig).

On the **Advanced** tab, you can limit resources available to the Docker Linux VM.

Advanced settings are:

- **CPU limit**. Specify the maximum number of CPUs to be used by Docker Desktop.
  By default, Docker Desktop is set to use all the processors available on the host machine.

- **Memory limit**. By default, Docker Desktop is set to use up to 50% of your host's
  memory. To increase the RAM, set this to a higher number; to decrease it,
  lower the number.

- **Swap**. Configure swap file size as needed. The default is 1 GB.

- **Disk usage limit**. Specify the maximum amount of disk space the engine can use.

- **Disk image location**. Specify the location of the Linux volume where containers and images are stored.

  You can also move the disk image to a different location. If you attempt to
  move a disk image to a location that already has one, you are asked if you
  want to use the existing image or replace it.

>[!TIP]
>
> If you feel Docker Desktop starting to get slow or you're running
> multi-container workloads, increase the memory and disk image space allocation

- **Resource Saver**. Enable or disable [Resource Saver mode](/manuals/desktop/use-desktop/resource-saver.md),
  which significantly reduces CPU and memory utilization on the host by
  automatically turning off the Linux VM when Docker Desktop is idle (i.e., no
  containers are running).

  You can also configure the Resource Saver timeout which indicates how long
  should Docker Desktop be idle before Resource Saver mode kicks in. Default is
  5 minutes.

  > [!NOTE]
  >
  > Exit from Resource Saver mode occurs automatically when containers run. Exit
  > may take a few seconds (~3 to 10 secs) as Docker Desktop restarts the Linux VM.


### File sharing

> [!NOTE]
>
> On Windows, the **File sharing** tab is only available in Hyper-V mode because the files
> are automatically shared in WSL 2 mode and Windows container mode.

Use File sharing to allow local directories on your machine to be shared with
Linux containers. This is especially useful for editing source code in an IDE on