Tag Archives: OSX

How-to Modify the Default User Settings in OSX

After my post on modifying default user settings in Vista I thought I should follow up with how to accomplish a similar thing in OSX. For OSX there is only one way to accomplish this, and that way is the manual way. Just like with the manual way in Vista set up two user accounts,

Enable “path view” on top of Finder window

I saw this at The Unofficial Apple Weblog and thought it was nice because I hate that you can’t see what folder you are in by default. Open a terminal and type: defaults write com.apple.finder _FXShowPosixPathInTitle -bool YES And you have your location at the top of the window. I don’t even have a Apple

Create user template in OSX

After my last post I realized I have never explained (or documented for myself) how to create a user template in OSX. The best how-to I found was on Jim Epler’s Blog which I found via google. Here are his steps slightly modified 1. Tweak your default account including setting dock, clearing cache, recent items,

OSX 10.5 keychain and user templates

We decided to have our Apple computers joined to our Active Directory server so we have a little more control and our users have a little more continuity and features when using different machines. We also finally figured out how to set up a user template similar to Windows default user profile. A problem we

How to restore a Apple computer to factory defaults

I occasionally need to set up a Apple computer to act like it just came from the factory to give to a new person or to sell it. There are 2 ways I found to do this. The first is with the original install disk that came with your computer. But honestly who still has

Catching up

I have had quite a few articles and tools that I have been wanting to post here but I haven’t made the time to do it. So I guess I am just going to make one big post for all of them. Most of these tools came from the wonderful How-to Geek but there are