Are you forever opening up your Mac’s System Preferences app and searching for the section you need? If so, it’s because by default, all those Preference Panes are ordered by category, which — to me ...

Printers in OS X are generally managed through the Print & Fax system preferences, but some problems might result in these preferences hanging. Here is how to clear this if it occurs. Topher Kessler ...

Like macOS Ventura, Sonoma comes with System Settings as the replacement for System Preferences. With that, the Mac System Report isn’t where it used to be. Here’s how to find it to get all the fine ...

In macOS, the System Preferences app located in the Applications folder is where you can adjust various settings to customize your Mac. Most system preference panes are native to macOS and cannot be ...

Many functions in Mac OS X are only exposed to the user via System Preferences, so as you might guess, a lot of new things in Leopard show up there. Among them are a few of the "secret new features" ...

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Sometimes it’d be nice to be able to make a change in System Preferences without going to the trouble of opening that utility and then navigating to the preference pane you want. Hints reader BrentT ...

OS X has a number of options for handling disk images—settings for such things as automatically opening them, moving Internet-enabled images to the trash after opening, verifying checksums, and more.

We may earn a commission from links on this page. OS X Lion: If you've ever caught yourself staring at the OS X System Preferences tool looking for a particular settings icon for too long, then you'll ...