31370: Mac OS: "Can't Open Preferences File" Message covers what to do when a Control Panel's preferences becomes corrupt. The short answer is, trash the offending prefs file.

The Accounts System Preferences pane may not be the most glamorous destination in Mac OS X, but it?s definitely worth a stopover in Leopard (Mac OS X 10.5). Check it out and you?ll find a ...

Open the Preferences file with either a text editor like Notepad or an app like Microsoft’s Visual Studio Code.

When launching the program, I get the following issue: "Corrupted settings file causes failure to load preferences." It seems like the application fails to read or load its configuration due to this ...

Hi all. I think this is a symptom that's unique to excel in Office 2011 but whenever I open a file it opens it maximized. I hate this. I run a lot of spreadsheets and having to resize them every ...

Here’s a quick Tuesday timesaver for the 80 percent of you who browse with Safari. Safari’s preferences let you specify what happens when you open a new browser window—you can open an empty ...