OS X :: Limit Access To System Prefs And Other Things?
Mar 13, 2010
I gave my grandfather a macbook and he is bothering the @*&^ out of me with it. He keeps having wireless problems because he likes to play with it and whenever one of his dam sites wont load he thinks its the computers fault and messes it up. Is there anyway to remove the wifi icon from the menu bar and lock access to system prefs and anything else that he casn use to destroy the computer? I looked at parental controls and they dident do what i wanted.
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Feb 25, 2012
I recently changed my Apple ID. When I try to make changes to my iCloud account on my Mac., I cannot access the account via System Preferences. I've changed the password once already. My iPhone's iCloud account is fine. At this point my iCloud account no longer is working with my Mac.
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MacBook (13-inch Mid 2010), Mac OS X (10.7.2)
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Sep 8, 2009
My airtunes was randomly breaking when trying to stream to my Airport Express and AppleTV. The dreaded (-15000) unknown error message kept appearing. Through searches here and elsewhere, I found a solution that has worked for me. I have turned off IPv6. System Pref >> Network >>Advanced >> TCP/IP >> Configure IPv6: set it to "off". It was on "Automatically" prior to my change. This switch fixed my problem with the airtunes streaming. My question is: Will this prevent me from fully utilizing anything else that my require IPv6? I'm not familiar with what that might be, or why we even need it. From what I've read, it's likely something needed or utilized on a large network, but at home, it seems unnecessary. Am I missing something or will I regret having to turn it off?
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Sep 7, 2009
I am running a macbook only a couple of months old so i go the cheap as chips dvd for SL Installed it and things seem fine except the fun that office 2008 wont load at all (gotta love MS) Now though i can not authenticate myself to change accounts in preferences even though i am the only user and i am the admin user. i click on the lock and it simply saying "authenticating" then goes back to "click lock to change settings" this is annoying as i cant do much in terms of users etc and i think this is lnked to the fact that i can't install not programs. In fact i couldn't even install the additional programs from the install DVD!!! i got to the final button to actually instal after selecting the location etc and it does nothing after clicking install. No password prompt or nothing.
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Jun 18, 2012
switched to 10.7 recently. seem to be having a problem with preview.app.i have various setting saved as follows:
system pref -> general:
restore windows... = unselected
highlight color = Gold
show scroll bars = always
[code].....
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Dec 27, 2008
Some screens of a recent DP showing SL: [URL]
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Mar 4, 2009
I tend to just leave my new Mac Pro on all the time so I don't have to re-open apps and get all my windows back into their proper Spaces, but I wonder if there's an easy way to disable the internet while I'm not using it, short of disconnecting the ethernet cable. I've looked through System Prefs and can't seem to find that option.
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Feb 29, 2012
Just bought a MacBook Pro. The headphone jack doesn't show up in Sound Systems Prefs. I see others have had that issue. Is there a fix?
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MacBook Pro (17-inch Late 2011), Mac OS X (10.7.3)
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Mar 22, 2012
Ever since updating to OS X 10.7.3 I can't get my Internet Sharing to function for wifi. I enable this to use my iPod at home. The computer 'says' Internet Sharing is on but my iPod searches and doesn't find a signal. Plus, the four bars at the top right of the screan do not change to a solid color with the arrow pointing up like it used to when enabled and working.
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MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.7.3)
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Dec 7, 2010
I'm the administrator of my computer, but I want to create an account similar to the guest account, one which does not have access to my own home folder, files, etc. Unlike the guest account, I don't want all the files and preferences to be deleted upon logging out.
Pretty much a separate account, completely unrelated to the administrator account.
Is this possible?
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Jun 3, 2009
I have to have someone use my macbook and I have created a guest account. I want to limit the documents that they can view. Basically I want to keep them out of my financial information.
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Jun 28, 2008
i am trying to hook up a mac mini to a local wireless network (airport express) so that i can access a shared iTunes library but i do not want the mac mini to be able to access the internet (other macs on the network need to be able to access the internet). is there a way to change the settings on the mac mini so that this is possible?
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Jun 18, 2012
We had everything working perfectly with an earlier version of Lion Server. The update to 10.7.3, or 4, seems to have opened access to all files for all users. Much to our surprise, this wide-open access started without warning.
- We have an external drive that contains all of the company's archives
- We had set access for one employee to get to the files he needs, and different access for another employee. Neither saw sharepoints outside of their access settings.
After an update, each employee can see and log in to all sharepoints. There doesn't seem to be a way to limit access for each employee now. I can set 'read' access for one employee, but it doesn't stop the other employee from accessing that sharepoint/folder.
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Jul 9, 2009
I am set to receive my first MBP tomorrow afternoon! (15" 2.66ghz 4gb ram 320gb hd). I was wondering what everyone recommends to do once I get it. Should I drain the battery right away? What are some necessary widgets/programs? Any products that are a must have? (palm guard?) Basically anything that you think will maximize my experience with my first mac.
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Dec 3, 2009
fonts must be messed up in Snow Leopard. Some system things display strange fonts. For example, my user name in upper right hand corner of the screen doesn't look right.ALso, the font on the "tabs," in Safari is not correct, and I can compare it to other SL computers.
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Jan 19, 2009
I was wondering if there is a small file size limit to the FAT32 file system. I recently picked up a 1TB WD external with Firewire (pre-formatted FAT32) and have been transferring movies and such fine, but I just tried transferring an HD movie (5GB) and some large .dmg's/.iso's and they all just fail with an error.
Is this a size limitation, and will i need to reformat the drive to fix it, or is there something else I'm missing?
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Nov 13, 2009
I was doing several things at once on my iMac (ripping a DVD, on iChat video, etc) and my mac crashed. Now it won't open iTunes. I have a 500 gig music library and hundreds of playlists etc, so I'd hate to have to reinstall iTunes and lose all that. Is that what would happen if I reinstalled iTunes? I have Time Machine hooked up. Could I go into that and grab an iTunes prefs file from before the crash, and put that in the current system folder? Would that be something to try?
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Apr 9, 2012
My IMAP (5.2) Lion mail account set to download "Manually." Yet, I'm interrupted all day long by random mail arrivals. This is a concentration-killer.
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iMac, Mac OS X (10.7.3)
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Dec 8, 2006
If I were to run the disk utility that asks for the CDs that come with the MBP, what will that do? It is a software utility of sorts. Can I just re-install the basic system files for the OS, or perhaps even just download or copy over from another computer the "Preferences" file? This seems too simplistic, but I am an ex-Windows user. Don't want to format and re-install or anything of that nature if possible.
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Feb 5, 2010
When I try to select display in system pref. the display window will open and then close without letting me make any changes.
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Sep 10, 2009
Is there a way to access the sounds of Leopard i.e. error sounds trash can sounds mounting sounds etc.
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May 9, 2010
I can connect to the itunes store and do all the normal functions. However, if I try to buy a song (after I enter my email and password), it says couldnt connect, session timed out. If i try to buy from my iphone
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Aug 13, 2008
The icon is gone, and when i click apple>system preferences, nothing happens. I need system preferences and this is very frustrating. Could I possibly have deleted it from my hard drive while clearing up un-used files?
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Apr 15, 2012
my system preferences is not accessible from the apple menu and it has a grey question mark on it in the dock
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Mac OS X (10.7.3)
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May 9, 2012
I get the SBBOD everytime I open system preferences. This is recent within the past few days. I have rebooted.
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MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.7.3), Early 2011,13", 120 GB SSD, 8GB RAM
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Jan 10, 2011
I haven't been able to access my security panel in System Preference for almost 6 months and I am very concerned......
Everything else in System Preference works, but when I click on Security the program would freeze then shut itself down.....
Does anyone had the same problem and eventually solved it?
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Sep 14, 2010
Previous History: I'm on a MacPro and I have my main user account on another volume than my system. This has worked just beautifully for me over the past years, sometimes there are drawbacks and it's kind of more failure-prone in some cases. This 'some cases' now happened again: there was a blackout and after that I couldn't login to my user account on the non-system volume anymore. I've been there once and hadn't any problems fixing it somehow, but now I screwed up big time.
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May 3, 2009
what is the best/largest online storage i can get for free and a bonus i can acsess it on my ipod touch
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Jul 24, 2010
Can I have my OS X side of my computer running in the background while I use windows 7? Using bootcamp.
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May 8, 2010
I cannot bring up my system preferences under the blue apple icon or through a search. I installed and ran MacJanitor v 1.3 a month or so ago and perhaps that's the cause? I have been missing my Mail prefs for a long time so switched to Thunderbird but I don't know if the two incidents are related. iMac G5,1.6 GHz, 1.5 GB, OS 10.3.9
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