System Preferences gone
I have a Mac with Tiger set up in my conference room and some smart dude deleted the System Preferences shortcut from the desktop. Now when I go to the "apple" up in the bar and I click System Preferences it doesn't start the System Preferences pane anymore. What can I do? Are there some files that I can import from another Mac with Tiger in order to have the System Preferences back?
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If you threw away the 'shortcut' (it's called an alias on MacOS X), and then Spotlight couldn't find the original, and attempting to launch it from the Apple menu didn't work either... you threw away the original, and mistook it for an alias.
General rule: don't move apps out of /Applications.
More stringent rule: don't move Apple-supplied apps out of /Applications. They won't get updated correctly when you run a System Update.
Personally, I have all my applications over in /Users/Shared/Applications with an alias in /Applications/UserApplications. The only things in /Applications are Apple supplied apps. (Makes backing up easier too.)