Restoring preference pane access Last week, we mentioned an Apple KB article that cited a problem where "Mac Help Cannot Open System Preferences Panes." In some cases, users may have trouble opening ...

A handful of MacFixIt readers reported that they are unable to access the "Displays" pane of System Preferences after updating to Mac OS X 10.3.8. One reader writes: "After having used 'Software ...

Sometimes OS X works in mysterious ways. Take, for instance, the matter of user preferences. In some cases, we get full control over the many things one can do with an application. TextEdit has about ...

It’s the future, already, right? While we may not have flying cars or jetpacks, we do have computers ad mobile devices that we can speak to and that can speak to us. Here are a few ways to make your ...

The System Preferences app in macOS has been there since the very beginning, and it’s showing its age. A tiny, largely unchanging rectangle sized for the tiny displays of the early 2000s, it’s past ...