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| Thread ID: 111312 | 2010-07-22 02:04:00 | OSX Tiger - Unable to resize dock or add anything to it | Morgenmuffel (187) | Press F1 |
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| 1121256 | 2010-07-22 02:04:00 | Hi all OX 10.4.11 After my 4th windows machine died in less than 6 months i am using an old emac. However i am currently unable to add anything to the dock, or resize the dock, this is in an administrator account that i am using. in system preferences - dashboard & expose, Screensaver, and Dock are all greyed out. Can't work out why, also can't work out where i unlock these options |
Morgenmuffel (187) | ||
| 1121257 | 2010-07-22 03:34:00 | From the sounds of it that is not an administrator account, are you sure it is an administrator account? | nedkelly (9059) | ||
| 1121258 | 2010-07-22 04:17:00 | Nope it is definitely an administrator account | Morgenmuffel (187) | ||
| 1121259 | 2010-07-22 04:34:00 | Options to freeze the dock etc are available. Check to see if Tinker tool is installed and has those options selected.. |
Sue (33) | ||
| 1121260 | 2010-07-22 04:49:00 | If nothing works you can hack your way in. This method sometimes works for blocked prefs. 1. copy system preferences to desktop 2. Right click show package contents 3. Go: contents/resources/ 4. Delete: NSPrefPaneGroups.xml 5. Open the copied system prefs 6. The icons should be gone 7. Type dock into the menu bar and hit enter 8. If it loads see if the prefs are unblocked If not try this: Not I am not responsible for any loss of data using this method; Go to: Macintosh HD/Library/PreferencePanes/ Copy dock.prefpane to your desktop Delete dock.prefpane from from: Macintosh HD/Library/PreferencePanes/ Double click on the dock file you copied to your desktop and it should install the dock pref |
icow (15313) | ||
| 1121261 | 2010-07-22 04:52:00 | Can't find anything called tinker, this is an ex school mac I did try creating a new admin account, but it has the exact same issue |
Morgenmuffel (187) | ||
| 1121262 | 2010-07-22 05:01:00 | Can't find anything called tinker, this is an ex school mac I did try creating a new admin account, but it has the exact same issue If it's ex-school it'll be locked down completely, try my methods if they don't work you'll need to reinstall Tiger. Schools netboot .img files on most of their computers. The images have custom versions of Tiger designed to prevent access to system prefs even on admin accounts. |
icow (15313) | ||
| 1121263 | 2010-07-22 05:02:00 | Try enabling ROOT user: docs.info.apple.com | icow (15313) | ||
| 1121264 | 2010-07-22 05:10:00 | Agreed with icow, either reimage or try root | nedkelly (9059) | ||
| 1121265 | 2010-07-22 05:16:00 | I used your first method and was able to resize the dock, however it appears I need to keep the hacked system preference available if I ever want to resize the dock again as the normal system prefs still has those bits greyed out. as for method 2. there is no dock.prefpane in that location |
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