In macOS, the System Preferences app located in the Applications folder is where you can adjust various settings to customize your Mac. Most system preference panes are native to macOS and cannot be ...

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 ...

MenuStrip, the multi-purpose utility for Mac OS X from the shareware developers at MacPoweruser, has been updated to version 2.5. MenuStrip allows quick access to frequently used settings, such as the ...

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.

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 ...

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 like to find new ways to tweak OS X, you sometimes need to look in unexpected places. For example, the Accessibility pane of System Preferences, which houses a number of features to help users ...

Apple has spent the last decade building and improving Mac OS X, fusing the classic Mac OS and technology acquired from Steve Jobs’s Next into an impressive mainstream operating system that’s widely ...