System Preferences Corrupt

My problem is: when I go into system preferences my start up logo is all corrupt looking. a. Why is this? b. How can I fix it/reset it back to original state? Thanks in advance for your assistance.

You solved my issue too, which was that I had this weird lightswitch icon on top of my software update icon in my Preferences. Thanks! Now...where's the star award thing?...

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Systeme Preference Corruption for All Users!

In one of my user account, I can't get the scroll bars to show!!!
I want in preference-general and select ''Always'' under Show Scroll Bars, but I can't see them in Safari, Mail...
When I close Preference, my ''Always'' selection is gone and it return to '' Automatically based on input device''
Also, issue with Screen Saver. I can select any Apple default screen saver. My iMac always play my iPhoto Library.
I'm suspecting Systeme Preference Corruption in all my users.
In previous post, Frank recommended to boot from recovery disk, go to terminal, rset paasword window and slect ''Reset Home Folder Permissions and ACLs''
This is what I did, exept, it was running after 24 hrs of waiting and I decide to quit. It did the same with all users...
Do you have a solution to this issue?
NOTE: Lions was reinstalled and HD erase. Repair Disk Permission done, Safe boot done.
What do I got left?

Repairing the permissions of a home folder in Lion is a complicated procedure. I don’t know of a simpler one that always works.
Launch the Terminal application in any of the following ways:
☞ Enter the first few letters of its name into a Spotlight search. Select it in the results (it should be at the top.)
☞ In the Finder, select Go ▹ Utilities from the menu bar, or press the key combination shift-command-U. The application is in the folder that opens.
☞ Open LaunchPad. Click Utilities, then Terminal in the page that opens.
Drag or copy – do not type – the following line into the Terminal window, then press return:
chmod -R -N ~
The command will take a noticeable amount of time to run. When a new line ending in a dollar sign ($) appears below what you entered, it’s done. You may see a few error messages about an “invalid argument” while the command is running. You can ignore those. If you get an error message with the words “Permission denied,” enter this:
sudo !!
You'll be prompted for your login password, which won't be displayed when you type it. You may get a one-time warning not to screw up.
Next, boot from your recovery partition by holding down the key combination command-R at startup. Release the keys when you see a gray screen with a spinning dial.
When the recovery desktop appears, select Utilities ▹ Terminal from the menu bar.
In the Terminal window, enter “resetpassword” (without the quotes) and press return. A Reset Password window opens.
Select your boot volume if not already selected.
Select your username from the menu labeled Select the user account if not already selected.
Under Reset Home Directory Permissions and ACLs, click the Reset button.
Select  ▹ Restart from the menu bar.

System Preferences---corrupt Icon?

When I open my System Preferences, the former icon for the printer seems corrupted. I can click on it, and it will open printer/fax preferences, BUT the icon itself looks strange. It's an oversized light switch with "print & fax" at the bottom half-way cut off. I certainly don't remember it being this way last time I opened system preferences!
I've already tried to re-start, but it did not fix the problem.
Thanks!

check this out:
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=483993&tstart=0
post back if the suggestions there didn't help... but it looks to be precisely the same problem (corrupted cache).... cheers

System Preferences corrupt ! install disk missing

For some reason my System Preferences stopped working saying its corrupt or missing and having just moved i now realise i have lost my system install disks.
What can i do i cannot believe i left the disks have rang to people were i live and whatever was left was thrown out ! how stupid can you get to leave vital disks behind.

Ok this is what happened i had been using a USB CF card reader HY-01001 no problem yesterday i had company and the llid was closed and i will still online. I took the card reader out when i turn it back on i got a security message about startup and a file called pace--something ! i took no notice really. Then i tried the card reader and that no longer works i know i never installed any software for it in the first place. I rebooted a few time but every time i got the message saying cant start up system preferences so i tried to start from the application folder but it was report not working, so i went to the directory and deleted it (after all its only an app) there was something above it called pacexxx (cant remember full name) so i deleted that. I have had this happen once before but reinstalled from my disks. Then i realised that i have lost the two disks. I had to move in a bit of a hurry and yes i forgot to pack the disks yes its my problem.
Now the Macbook 6.1 (late 2009 the serial trace says) is running the card reader will still not work yet my internet dongle works so the USB seems ok and i cannot find a download for the app system preferences. I have no idea if the Macbook as screwed the card reader up or somehow blanked card readers. sorry rambling on a bit
Apple, well to be honest i could not see why i could not find a download for the system preferences app as it seems to have problems. Its not just Apple but every company seems to use high cost phone lines and you get through to a computer designed to get as much time and money out of you as possible. Having said that i love my Macbook and iPhone so love Apple products i never registered the Macbook but signed up with Apple using the serial number so its my original bought and paid for Macbook 6.1.
Sorry once again about rabbling any advice
Why the card reader no longer works .
Can i make it work again ?
Can i find a download for the missing app ?
Peter

Corrupt system preferences panel

I noticed the keyboard and mouse icon on the system preferences panel has become corrupt...sort of showing a clipped zoomed in view of a different looking switch, and only the words 'Keyboard &' is visible, not 'Mouse' also.
Is this something to worry about - or something that can be fixed? Operationally it seems to work fine.
Thanks in advance,
Jules.

You're welcome. Pleased to have been of help.
BTW, cache files help to speed things up after the first time you access the item concerned, but they do tend to get corrupted fairly easily. You can trash any of the items in that folder whenever you have a problem with the relevant item - it may not help, but it can't do any harm. You can even trash all the items in that folder occasionally to 'refresh' them.

System Preference Pane Corrupt

Hi, I have an unusual problem well I think it is! In System Preferences the Startup Disk Icon is corrupt, the text does not display and the icon is almost like a white box, still works if I click, just wondering how I can get it back to normal without having to re-install my whole system.
Cheers
nick

u need to check if the same issue happens in a new users by going to sys pref>accounts> create new user .
then u would need to login to that other account and check if the new users shows up the same way .
if not its a user related issue .
so u need to login back into that main account and remove the pref for system pref from HDD/users/username/lib/pref/system pref.plist .
drag this file to the trash and try

Corrupt icons in System Preferences panel?

For some strange reason, the 'Startup Disk' icon in my system preferences panel has changed...it looks like a giant light switch and you can see a bit of a border around it. Is there any way to reset this back to normal?
You can check out an image here: http://web.mac.com/jhurtig/
I'm running 10.4.6 on a Macbook 2 GHz with all the latest updates installed.

Hi Jonas, delete these two files and relaunch SystemPreferences:
~(yourhome)/library/caches/com.apple.preferencepanes.cache
~(yourhome)/library/preferences/com.apple.systempreferences.plist
-mj
[email protected]

System Preference icons corrupted after 10.4.7?

Following installation of 10.4.7, there's prpblems with the graphic card: some icons, particularly in System Preferences, disappear or appear completely garbled.
Has anyone the same issue and found a fix?
Thank you!

Repairing Permissions and/or Resetting the Power Management Unit (PMU) may resolve certain issues. It can’t hurt so perhaps it’s worth a shot.
PERMISSIONS
Go to: Applications/Utilities/Disk Utility
Select: your Hard Drive
Select: the First Aid tab
Select: Repair Permissions
PMU
Resetting the Power Management Unit (PMU) is known to resolve certain anomalies and may well help with your symptom.
If the computer is on, turn it off.
Disconnect the AC Adapter and remove the computer's battery.
Press and hold down the power button for 5 seconds and then release the button.
Reconnect the battery and AC Adapter.
Press the Power button to restart the computer.
Ref: http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=303319
User's Guide: page-95
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My system preferences app is severely corrupted, i cant fix it help!

I was deleting files and i may have deleted some serious stuff. My system pref looks like this

Hmm. you can try the dropdown menu
System Preferences>View>Show all Preferences
You may be stuck having to reinstall the OS.

Unable to open AirPort options sheet in Network System Preference

Hi there,
There are several posts (and a Radar bug number, 4273111) reporting a certain difficulty with systems that have been upgraded to Tiger. For some reason: When viewing the AirPort network interface in the Network system preference, certain installations do not allow one to open the "Options" sheet.
To reproduce:
1. Open System Preferences.
2. Click on the Network system preference.
3. Show -> AirPort.
4. Click the "Options" button.
Normally, this should open an options sheet. However, on three separate systems I've encountered that have been upgraded to 10.4.x from earlier versions of Mac OS X (Jaguar to Panther to Tiger), the sheet does not open at all. Console reports the following when the button is clicked:
2006-11-07 09:55:22.206 System Preferences[379] * Assertion failure in -[PreferencesApp _commonBeginModalSessionForWindow:relativeToWindow:modalDelegate:didEndSelector :contextInfo:], AppKit.subproj/NSApplication.m:3057
2006-11-07 09:55:22.229 System Preferences[379] Modal session requires modal window
I've tried replacing the following items (then repairing permissions after each attempt) with a known-good copy from another 10.4.x system (same OS version/build in each case—as of this post, tested through 10.4.8), without effect:
/Applications/System Preferences.app
/Library/Preferences/SystemConfiguration/
/System/Library/PreferencePanes/Network.prefPane
/System/Library/Frameworks/Preferences.framework
I've seen references to a similar error in Safari that was able to be fixed with a reinstall of Safari—apparently, something corrupted in WebKit.framework. I'm presuming something similar would work here (and it's been reported that an Archive and Install will fix the problem, but that's certainly overkill to correct such an issue).
I've got clients that are not happy about this and the problem has apparently been documented for well over a year now. The following Discussions threads cover it as well:
"can't open airport options"
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=1125018
"Network system preferences stuck"
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=1123291
"Airport Preferred Networks"
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=722797
I'm happy to lend whatever troubleshooting assistance I can, so if anyone else out there can similarly recommend files I might try replacing that I've not already mentioned here, or any other information that could be helpful, I'd certainly appreciate it!
Thanks much,
MBJ
PowerBook G4 Mac OS X (10.4.8) 1.0 GHz, 1 GB RAM, AirPort

I'd also try trashing...
/Users/nnnn/Library/Preferences/com.apple.internetconnect.plist
/Library/Preferences/SystemConfiguration/NetworkInterfaces.plist
/Library/Preferences/com.apple.sharing.firewall.plist

System preferences quit unexpectedly everytime tried to open

i want to have a folder of pictures as my screensaver. everytime i click desktop/screen saver in system preferences, it sasy "the application system preferencs quit unexpectedly." i click reopen, it says sysem preferences has quit unexpectedly again, and then i click try again. it works then, but the new preferences i make don't save. all y software is update, and i have removed all of the picture files from the folder, so it's not a bad file. i've also restarted twice.

Hi, gna88.
1. First, try the following:1. Quit (Command-Q) System Preferences if it is open.
2. Trash the following two files in your Home > Library > Preferences folder:
• com.apple.systempreferences.plist
• com.apple.desktop.plist
3. Trash the following files in your Home > Library > Preferences > ByHost folder:
(a) com.apple.systempreferences.xxx.plist
(b) com.apple.screensaver.xxx.plist
(c) com.apple.screensaver.screensaver_name.xxx.plist
where• xxx is an alphanumeric string, and
• screensaver_name is the name of a screen saver you have used.Whether preferences files of the type shown in (c) exist depends upon the screen saver and if you have changed its options, if any.
4. Open your Home > Library > Caches folder, then trash the following two files therein:
• com.apple.preferencepanes.cache
• com.apple.preferencepanes.searchindexcache
5. Empty the Trash.
6. Launch System Preferences and see if all is well. If so, reset Desktop & Screen Saver preferences accordingly.2. If that doesn't work, then immediately after the problem occurs, check the ends of these Console logs for clues. Do not post the entire logs, but rather just copy/paste into a reply any messages at the ends of the logs referring to System Preferences or either of the Desktop or Screen Saver preference panes. One of those preference panes may be corrupted: if so, they can be reinstalled, but let's see if that's the problem first by what Console may tell us.
Good luck!
Dr. Smoke
Author: Troubleshooting Mac® OS X
Note: The information provided in the link(s) above is freely available. However, because I own The X Lab™, a commercial Web site to which some of these links point, the Apple Discussions Terms of Use require I include the following disclosure statement with this post:
I may receive some form of compensation, financial or otherwise, from my recommendation or link.

Tiger 10.4.11 Went to System Preferences Accounts- blank screen, no names

Problem one---I am trying to delete my accounts in my classroom. I go to system preferences>Accounts, and nothing shows, blank screen... nothing. I click "Show All" and all the menus return.
Problem 2- Upon trying to do the same thing as in problem one, when I "do" get to the screen that shows all of the user account names, I click on the "minus" sign to delete an account name, the computer freezes.
Thanks! I hope I explained this clear enough.

At this point I think you should get Applejack...
http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/19596
After installing, reboot holding down CMD+s, (+s), then when the DOS like prompt shows, type in...
applejack AUTO
Then let it do all 5 of it's things.
At least it'll eliminate some questions if it doesn't fix it.
The 5 things it does are...
Correct any Disk problems.
Repair Permissions.
Clear out Cache Files.
Repair/check several plist files.
Dump the VM files for a fresh start.
These files may be corrupt also...
/Library/Preferences/com.apple.preferences.accounts.plist
/Users/YourUserName/Library/Preferences/com.apple.systempreferences.plist

How to delete system preference on Mac Mini OS X 10.9.2

I purchased a Plantronics Gamecom 780 headset awhile ago. I can hear through it just fine however the mic has huge amounts of static. I know the headset should work on Mac. Ive tested it on other computers and it works perfectly. I believe that its just a corrupt system preference file but I don't know how to find it and delete it on this computer. Before you say anything, yes I have unmuted it, Ive gone into system preferences and than sound to mess with it in there.

http://www.macworld.com/article/2155980/os-x-10-9-3-unhiding-the-users-folder.ht ml
https://discussions.apple.com/message/24942345#24942345

System Preferences not detecting intel high definition audio

I have tried researching as much as possible before posting and I just can't find a solution.
I have a 2.4GHz Intel Core i7 Macbook Pro late 2011 running Mavericks 10.9.4 (13E28) on 8 GB RAM and Intel HD Graphincs 3000 512 MB, and my audio devices are not identified in audio MIDI setup or system preferences. Looking at system information the audio hardware is recognized (but there is no "built-in" beside 'audio' in the navigation pane).
I've tried reinstalling Mavericks, 10.9.0, 10.9.2, 9.3 and 9.4.
I've tried installing the combo pack for 10.9.4
After each install I've reset the PRAM and SMC for each reinstall.
I know my speakers work because I hear the chime when i start up. My internal microphone and line-in are also part of this problem with the audio devices. They don't show up in sound preferences either. To my knowledge the only issue seems to be with the audio.
My direct question is: How do i make my system preferences recognize my internal microphone, my internal speakers, and my built-in line?
I'd appreciate any input, this is my first posting to the community. Thank you all for viewing.

I looked into the community and saw that someone had the exact same problem. Their solution was to backup valuable data and clean install the operating system. I have followed through on this and have sound =). Just waiting now for my backups to complete.
I'm being cautious what I put back into the settings because I believe that's where some files my have been corrupted. Not sure. For the most part, thanks for viewing to those who did.

Spotlight (still) not working in System Preferences

Hi there,
As soon as I enter a single letter in the search box of the System Preferences window, the entire System Preferences window dims, and no Preference Pane icon is highlighted.
I've tried:
1) Running Disk Utility and reparing disk -- no repairs required
2) Running Disk Utility and repairing permissions -- no repairs required
3) Booting into Single User Mode (Command-S at boot), and running AppleJack 1.4.3 and removing all caches and checking all plist files for corruption
4) Deleting the Spotlight index: sudo mdutil -E / and re-indexing
5) manually deleting just ~/Library/com.apple.preferencepanes.cache and
~/Library/com.apple.preferencepanes.searchindexcache
Except for the search field in the System Prefernences window not working, Spotlight seems fine.
Any other suggestions appreciated.
...b

Thank you Daniel,
I omitted posting that the Search box in my Systems Preferences Window used to work, so that I do know what to look for: as I type letters the preference panes whose description contains the (partial) word I am typing should be highlighted by an undimmed circle.
Unfortunately, in my case, the behavior I have is that regardless of what I type in the Search box in my Systems Prefernces Window, no icons are ever highlighted. Indeed, I can type the complete name of a preference pane, for example 'bluetooth', and while my entire Systems Preferences Window is dimmed, neither my Bluetooth preference pane icon nor any other preference pane icon is highlighted through the use of an undimmed circle about it.
This failure of the Search box in the Systems Preferences Window has been experienced by other people. For example in this forum, viz:
Reindexed my HD but no Spotlight preference in Preferences
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=876847
Unfortunately the solution posted in the above thread was to manually delete the ~/Library/Caches/com.apple.preferencepanes.cache and ~/Library/Caches/com.apple.preferencepanes.searchindexcache files. And as I posted I've tried not only manually deleting the above two files in terminal.app, but also deleting all of my cache files through the use AppleJack 1.4.3. Neither steps have returned the Search box in my Systems Preferences Window to working order.
Alas, I'm still looking for suggestions...

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