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Issue with Fan Control

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Keano2416

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Apr 27, 2010
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(Not SMCFancontrol by the way)

I am running Snow Leopard, and every time I had to open Fan Control, it would restart System Preferences (presumably to launch in 32-bit mode). Now however, it still says "..needs to restart System Preferances" but when I press OK, System Preferences does not reopen. Hence I can't access the application.

Any advice?
 
Have you used XSlimmer before? If so, it might have removed the 32-bit architecture from system preferences (in order to save space).

I had the same problem too. XSlimmer had removed the 32-bit version of system preferences.

I was able to solve the problem by using Pacifist, inserting the snow leopard DVD, opening it with pacifist, and going here to find system preferences.app

/Volumes/Mac\ OS\ X\ Install\ DVD/System/Installation/ackages/Essentials.pkg
 
snowman1 said:
Have you used XSlimmer before? If so, it might have removed the 32-bit architecture from system preferences (in order to save space).

I had the same problem too. XSlimmer had removed the 32-bit version of system preferences.

I was able to solve the problem by using Pacifist, inserting the snow leopard DVD, opening it with pacifist, and going here to find system preferences.app

/Volumes/Mac\ OS\ X\ Install\ DVD/System/Installation/ackages/Essentials.pkg
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Ah, I believe that is the problem. Unfortunately, I think I have misplaced the Snow Leopard Installation Disk, so I'll need to find some other way to retrieve the original "System Preferences.app".

Thanks for your help!
 
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