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studio dstudio d
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in macOS edited January 2014
I don't know what happened....



Yesterday...sometime, I noticed my System Preferences were getting messed up. First, I am an admin user on my mac. I lost the icon for the 'Account' pane. I can't get to it! Then, about 10 minutes later I found that I had an 'extra' keyboard pane icon....then about 2 hours later I noticed yet a 3rd keyboard prefs icon.



I need help...is there a pref file that I can trash that would reset this? My wifes login, whom is also an admin, is still working just fine....so it must be with my account. Please advise.



Thanks

Eddie

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  • Reply 1 of 2
    der kopfder kopf Posts: 2,275member
    I think resetting your pram might help.



    Hold down the following keys while starting up (so, you hold it from the beginning):



    apple-key + option + P + R



    (4 keys, these are).



    I guess you'll hear a chime, but I'm not sure. Anyway, this resets your PRAM, which also has, as a consequence, that your clock will be off.



    Rumor has it you might want to try this more than once.



    Anyway, this might help. Hope it does, really.
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  • Reply 2 of 2
    defiantdefiant Posts: 4,876member
    this wouldn't help. reseting your PRAM isn't a cure to everything which happens in OS 10.



    1. Quit System Preferences if they're running

    2. Delete all files in ~/Library/Caches/

    3. Start System Preferences again.



    HTH
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