Cannot authenticate system prefs or install after SL installed

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male82ukmale82uk
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in macOS edited January 2014
HI everyone i need some help.........

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.





What can i do? can i do a fresh install from the Cheap SL install DVD??

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  • Reply 1 of 2
    amoryaamorya Posts: 1,103member
    Delete everything in Library/Preferences/ByHost and ~/Library/Preferences/ByHost, then log out and log back in.
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    male82ukmale82uk Posts: 7member
    Quote:
    Originally Posted by Amorya View Post


    Delete everything in Library/Preferences/ByHost and ~/Library/Preferences/ByHost, then log out and log back in.



    That didnt work as it wouldnt log me out it just kept being blue screen with intermittent spinning grey icon.



    any other ideas?
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