Mac OS X General Archives - Page 5 of 7

Disable ‘Resume’ system-wide

September 26, 2012 by Mr.W

Resume is one of the main feature since OS X 10.7 Lion. It’s a system-wide feature that allowing you to immediately get back to the exact state of the app even when system reboots. Use the following command to disable it. defaults write NSGlobalDomain NSQuitAlwaysKeepsWindows -bool false Restart your Mac or logout/in to make the changes appear. The commands can be reversed with the command: defaults write NSGlobalDomain NSQuitAlwaysKeepsWindows -bool true

Disable auto-correction in OS X

September 25, 2012 by Mr.W

Apple implemented a lighter version of Auto-Correction to OS X. Perhaps it’s causing more problems than it’s helping, here’s how to disable it. Use the following command: defaults write NSGlobalDomain NSAutomaticSpellingCorrectionEnabled -bool false Restart your Mac or logout/in to make the changes appear. defaults write NSGlobalDomain NSAutomaticSpellingCorrectionEnabled -bool true

Disable OS X crash report dialog window

September 21, 2012September 20, 2012 by Mr.R

When an application in Mac OS X decides to unexpectedly quit, a crash report dialog with additional crash information will appear on the screen. You can disable this crash report dialog with:

Disable the warning before emptying the Trash

September 16, 2012 by Mr.W

By default in OS X, users are given a warning when emptying the Trash and removing files from the hard drive. You can disable the warning window before emptying the Trash with following command:

Save to disk (not to iCloud) by default

September 11, 2012 by Mr.R

OS X Mountain Lion changes the default save location for applications. Any app which support iCloud now displays the iCloud dialog as default when saving a document. With this default write command you can revert to ‘local hard disk’ as default location for saving documents.

Disable ‘press and hold’ option in Mac OS X 10.7+

September 6, 2012September 6, 2012 by Mr.W

If you press and hold a letter in OS X, a pop-up will appear with the various accented versions of that letter. If you don’t use this and it bothers you, you can disable it.

Change default screensaver password delay options

September 3, 2012 by Mr.R

Since Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard we have the ability to set how long your Mac is asleep or how long the screen saver is on before it requires a password to wake up again. However, you can’t enter your own custom time period.