Restore Settings without Install Disk?

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  1. Exist2Inspire, Sep 10, 2008

    Exist2Inspire macrumors member

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    Any way to restore default settings in Leopard, e.g. default dock and window sizes? I dont have the leopard restore disks because I got a free upgrade to leopard when my macbook's HD failed.
     
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  2. hiddenpremise, Sep 10, 2008

    hiddenpremise macrumors regular

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    Easiest way. Create a new user account.

    More difficult way and slightly dangerous. Delete certain com.apple.preferenceHere files from /Users/your shortname/Library/Preferences folder. To get window settings back you would have to get rid of every .DStore file. They are hidden but can be seen from the command line by appending -a to the ls command.
     
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