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I have a Mac OS X version 10.6.8, I'm not that computer savvy and I'm having a really hard time figuring this one out.
This just started 2 days ago. When I go to click on system preferences under the apple symbol nothing happens. I've tried several times to open it and nothing happens. So I went to mac help to open it and when I try to open it I get an error message saying "system preferences is not enabled or installed". So I went to my disk utility to check the hard drive for errors and when I try to open my disk utility I get the same error message.
I've tried updating my software and its current. I've restarted the computer several times. I've removed my junk files & spam and still nada.....
I have no idea what to do...

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