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[kms007]

fantastic tip! I never knew that the Sys Pref icons could be removed. This is yet another reason I visit Macworld.com!

[dwcowell]

Must be Lion only. :-(

[maxwellpayne]

This is a great tip and good way to reduce System preference clutter!

[HankAZ]

dwcowell, on 31 January 2012 - 04:21 AM, said:

Must be Lion only. :-(

Did you read the article? The second paragraph states "This technique was introduced with Lion..."

[Doppleherz]

Great tip!

[quakerotis]

This is a wonderfulo hiodden gem. Thanks.

[johndrake]

Nice hint, does make the Preference Window a bit neater. Hats off to anon.

[ddhatfi]

Love it!

[sensel]

Can't you just right click and remove a pane?
That is how I do it in Snow Leopard.

[JaneSprando]

Please identify any tips for Lion only in the Mac OS Hints email. It is discouraging to get excited about a tip, only to discover it is for Lion. I don't intend to upgrade to 10.7 for a LONG time!

[jpmhughes]

sensel, on 31 January 2012 - 10:23 AM, said:

Can't you just right click and remove a pane?
That is how I do it in Snow Leopard.

You can only remove third party pref panes this way.

However, you can delete a preference pane by going to /System/Library/PreferencePanes.
Drag whatever you want to delete to a folder on the desktop or anywhere you want to hold it, a copy will be made.
Then delete the original, you'll be asked for an administrator password. That's it.
To re-enable the pref pane simply put the copy back into the /System/Library/PreferencePanes folder.
This also works in 10.5.

[gherrick]

This apparently only applies to 10.7, as with 10.6.8 neither way mentioned to customize seems to go anywhere.

[bastion]

gherrick, on 31 January 2012 - 04:14 PM, said:

This apparently only applies to 10.7, as with 10.6.8 neither way mentioned to customize seems to go anywhere.

Well, yes. It's not in the headline but the body of the article notes very early on that this is new behavior in Lion.