Energy Saver preferences not remembered We've confirmed, in-house, a bug that causes Energy Saver to forget scheduled shutdown and startup times if authentication is used to preserve the settings.

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 ...

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 ...

With macOS Ventura, Apple decided to rename and redesign the macOS System Preferences. It resembles the one in iOS, but Apple didn’t completely make the two UIs mirror each other. The Mac and iPhone ...

During the course of a day in a small business, you may find you need to perform a variety of printing tasks. Adjusting your Mac OS X print preferences is a way to save your preferred printing ...

The System Preferences dialog controls just about everything on your Mac OS X machine, from trackpad behavior to screen timeout delay. If you’ve never really delved into the menus though, you might ...

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 ...

If you have installed a color printer, Mac OS X Snow Leopard's default printing preset prints all of your color documents in color. When you print from a program, you can change the print preferences ...