How do you remove pref panes from the system prefs?

lucaluca
Posted:
in Genius Bar edited January 2014
I recently switched from my PowerBook G3 to a PowerMac G4 and to preserve my settings/mail/etc, I copied the entire "home" folder over to the new computer. Now, however, there are three extra items in the system prefs that were present on my old computer but they are not installed on my new one. They still show up, even though I don't have anything installed for them. How can I remove them?

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  • Reply 1 of 2
    scadboyscadboy Posts: 189member
    Could you be a little more specific? Which preferences panes do you want to remove? Generally, unneeded panes will dissappear on their own, so you may not want to remove them. Otherwise, you can remove them manually by looking in one of two places.



    For System-wide preferences panes, follow this path:

    Root being your harddrive

    root > System > Library > PreferencePanes

    You will need to be logged in as root to remove anything in this folder, or do it through the terminal under sudo.



    For preference panes specific to your account, follow this path: "user" being your homespace

    root > Users > "user" > Library > PreferencePanes



    Hope this helps.



    ciao,



    michael
  • Reply 2 of 2
    defiantdefiant Posts: 4,876member
    and search also for cached versions of prefpanes
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