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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

One relatively rare problem in Snow Leopard a few people have experienced is a corruption in the Displays system preferences that results in a "do not localize" message listed in the resolution list.

Apple likes to monkey with System Preferences in macOS. Every few releases, they move things around, rename items, and change how it works. But you might have overlooked a long-running option to take ...

Make the navigation of your macOS System Preferences easier, by hiding icons for elements that you never access. Most users are familiar with System Preferences on their Mac. If there's a setting ...

We’ve covered the usefulness of the Option (⌥) modifier key in macOS plenty of times in the past, but we’d like to remind you about its usefulness in the wake of the new Touch Bar-enabled MacBook Pro.

macOS has gone through a handful of visual changes over the last several years, but one thing that has stayed largely the same is System Preferences. A new concept imagines how Apple could revamp the ...

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 latest macOS High Sierra has a gaping security hole that provides easy access to the App Store system settings, which unlocks using any password. Gaining entry to the App Store System Preferences ...