Mac OS X ships with a lot of default system preference panes and I have about 30 of these on my MacBook Air running Mac OS X Lion. There are an extra 11 preference panes that I’ve added by installing ...

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 ...

If you find that System Preferences in OS X contains too many options that you don’t regularly use, then you should considering hiding rarely used sections of the app. By using the Customize option in ...

A couple of weeks after its unveiling, the budget-priced Mac mini has begun shipping. Targeted at would-be switchers and ?adders,? the mini is easily the lowest-priced Mac desktop ever. There are ...

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