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System Preferences, the application for OS X that allows you to modify various system settings. The application is organized into different preference panes.

System Preferences is the application for OS X that allows you to modify various system settings. Located in /Applications, the application is organized into different preference panes.

System Preferences will access preference panes in three default locations:

  • /System/Library/PreferencePanes — default OS X preference panes
  • /Library/PreferencePanes — user-installed preference panes installed globally
  • ~/Library/PreferencePanes — user-installed preference panes just for a single user
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Where can I find system log information on OS X Lion 10.7.5 for System Preferences changes?

Suppose I navigate to System Preferences and make a simple change (say I turn off BlueTooth). Is it logged somewhere in the syslog? In other words, is there a log file somewhere on the file system that keeps track of what was written to the System…
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System preferences crashes when press accounts

I'm trying to help someone else with their computer, every time I try to access the "Accounts" settings in system preferences, system preferences hangs and then crashes, any idea what's up? The computer is a Macbook 2.4Gz Core Duo, and all the…
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How does the language & text region setting "affect the availability of Internet services"?

According to a note underneath the Region setting in the Language & Text prefpane, "Changing the region may affect the availability of Internet services." This is not explained in any documentation I can find anywhere, and apart from some cryptic…
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Why do some applications in System Preferences say "To use the “xxx” preferences pane, System Preferences must quit and reopen."

When I open my MIDI driver in System Preferences I get the following message: "To use the “YAMAHA USB-MIDI Control Panel” preferences pane, System Preferences must quit and reopen." Then when I open a normal thing like "Sharing" "Sound" or…
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How to restore System Preferences.app without reinstalling?

My younger brother decided to sudo rm -r /Applications/System\ Preferences.app. Yeah, it was a pretty stupid thing to do. (In his defense, it's probably my fault for giving him bad habits--whenever I set up new macs, I always forcibly remove iTunes,…
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Date and time settings disabled

My date and time has suddenly become 1 jam 2013 In date and time preferences the setting "set date and time automatically" is disabled by which I mean it's greyed out. It's ticked and set to 10.2.0.90 How can I reenable this setting to change the…
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Remaining icon in PreferencePanes

I succesfully removed some unneeded fuse apps but 'fuse-ext2' icon remained in System Preferences pane. If I right-click and ask for Remove I get an error message: The “fuse-ext2” preferences pane could not be removed because an error…
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How do you delete applications which are stored in your system preferences?

I have these two programs "Fan Control" and "Shades" which I got from the Macupdate website. With other downloads it seems they can simply be dragged nd dropped from the applications folder into the trash and all their history is gone with them.…
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