It appears that some users are making it a habit to inadvertently delete some important utility applications on their systems, namely the System Preferences. These applications and folders of ...

Leopard users have been experiencing problems with the "Login Items" system preferences pane, where the preferences pane will appear to be corrupted, with some items not being shown properly. When ...

The Mac’s position as an established, decades-old platform means that any time Apple makes changes to the way that platform works, some pushback is expected. In macOS Ventura, for example, the company ...

A new bug has been introduced with macOS High Sierra 10.13.2 (17C88) which allows any admin account to access the App Store preferences from the System Preferences application with an incorrect ...

Here’s a geeky hint for your post-Independence-day Friday, whereby you can express your independence by customizing the appearance of the System Preferences panel. As delivered by Apple, each of the ...

Apple is going to rearrange menus and app UIs across macOS 15, with System Settings seeing the biggest reorganization since the app was redesigned. For its upcoming operating systems, Apple has ...

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 ...

Much like with iOS 12, we’re continuing to learn more about macOS 10.14 Mojave as we dig deeper into the first beta release. While we just took a closer look at the new dark mode design, the update ...

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" ...

A bug report submitted on Open Radar this week has revealed a security flaw in the current version of macOS High Sierra that allows the App Store menu in System Preferences to be unlocked with any ...