It appears that some users are making it a habit to inadvertently delete some important utility applications on their systems, namely the System Preferences.

Apple Discussions poser Kristian Attfield: "When I try to enable the guest account, System preferences crashes, so in order to do anything I have to force quit system prefs. After force quitting ...

With macOS Ventura for instance, Apple redesigned the System Preferences application, making it look and behave like the settings app on iOS and iPadOS.

Don't want to wade through all those preference panes to change one setting? One Hints reader came up with an AppleScript-application that makes such a change simple.

Perhaps most notably, Apple has moved the Software Update menu back into the System Preferences application. This seems to be how Apple will handle future system updates for macOS.

What's changed in System Preferences under Mavericks? Find out here.

Sometimes applications can install extras in the form of System Preference panes. However, when you remove the app from your Mac, you might be left with extraneous System Preference panes. To ...