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.

The Mac has come a long way from the original Macintosh. Once housed in retro beige plastic, current incarnations are clad in smooth, sandblasted aluminum. It was the computer that popularized both ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Reader Ben Connolly is interested in keeping some distance between his Mac’s operating system and data. He writes: I’m planning to get a new Mac and I’d like to keep my system on one drive (perhaps an ...

Resetting your Mac printer can help fix a problematic printer and get your office back to peak efficiency. Performing a printer reset restores the default printer settings, deletes queues and printing ...