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Gain complete access to all the panes of the system preferences, even when they are "greyed-out".
In Mac OS 10 and above, if you are not the highes-ranking user on the computer, then higher users can control what you can use in System Preferences. This article will show you how to use all of the system preferences even if you do not have the privileges to access them.
Worked on Mac OS 10.4.4 when done previously, and just tested and worked on Mac OS 10.4.6.
This is really easy, just make a copy of System Preferences (not an alias, an actual copy). It will tell you that "One or more items have special permissions and cannot be copied". Just ignore that, it all works good.
Now, ctrl-click (right-click) on "System preferences copy" and go to "Show package contents". Now navigate in the window that pops up, to: /Contents/Resources/NSPrefPaneGroups.plist
Delete NSPrefPaneGroups.plist. Now, you can close that window and open your copy of system preferences. You will notice that most of the interface has gone, apart from the toolbar at the top of the window, and of course the menu-bar. You can now access all of your freshly unlocked preferences using that menubar by simply selecting them in the "View" menu.
Enjoy your new privileges!
Worked on Mac OS 10.4.4 when done previously, and just tested and worked on Mac OS 10.4.6.
This is really easy, just make a copy of System Preferences (not an alias, an actual copy). It will tell you that "One or more items have special permissions and cannot be copied". Just ignore that, it all works good.
Now, ctrl-click (right-click) on "System preferences copy" and go to "Show package contents". Now navigate in the window that pops up, to: /Contents/Resources/NSPrefPaneGroups.plist
Delete NSPrefPaneGroups.plist. Now, you can close that window and open your copy of system preferences. You will notice that most of the interface has gone, apart from the toolbar at the top of the window, and of course the menu-bar. You can now access all of your freshly unlocked preferences using that menubar by simply selecting them in the "View" menu.
Enjoy your new privileges!
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