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 ...

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 ...

Another date bug solution Response to our Apple CHUD Tools workaround for the date bug has been excellent, with most readers reporting that the problem is solved - though they are still stuck changing ...

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 ...

Reader Rosemary Jayne shares a useful shortcut for OS X that lets you jump from one System Preference pane to another without having to find it in the icon view. If you're in Mac system preferences ...

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 ...

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 ...

OS X 10.9 Mavericks promises more than 200 new features, but many of those aren’t the kinds of things you’ll see plastered across Apple’s website. Some instead are found in subtle changes to ...

El Capitan, the latest update to OS X, seeks to make the operating system better with various performance enhancements and interesting new features. Downloading it is kind of a no-brainer because of ...

Version 2.0.3 introduces a re-configured preferences management system, improved auto-launch support and a few bug fixes. Audio Switcher requires OS X 10.7 or later and costs US$4.99. It’s available ...