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How to hide Preferences in the Finder window

Sep 26, 2006 2:59PM PDT

Is there a way in Mac to hide Preferences in the Finder Window?

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Hiding Preferences
Sep 26, 2006 9:41PM PDT

I assume this is to stop others from messing with the way you have your stuff set up.

If that is the case, the best way to do it is to STOP letting other people use your account on the Mac. Create an account, more than one if necessary, and limit what each account can do. This includes prohibiting the user from making any changes to any preferences.

With separate accounts, each user can only mess with their own stuff, leaving yours intact and available for when you log on.

Any help?

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Also, Preferences are not in the main Finder
Sep 27, 2006 6:32AM PDT

Window. If you are talking about what's in the Dock, that can be dragged out of the dock. If you are talking about under the Apple, the best way would be to create a "Guest" user with limited capabilities.

In a REAL computing environment, your don't hide files from users, you create the user account so they can't get to the files...