MacOS – How to get the system preferences to show up

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How do I make my system preferences show up again? I tried logging in as another account on the same system:

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Best Answer

  • close system preferences
  • go to your home directory and then Library then PreferencePanes. (remove ~/Library/PreferencePanes/*) remove anything in there (to you desktop in case you want to sort through them later)
  • launch system preferences and see if it acts better.

if not, then go to /Library then PreferencePanes and remove anything there. (remove /Library/PreferencePanes/*)

if it's a wonky pref pane, this should fix it, with only the system ones remaining.

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