How To: Add contact information to your Macs login screen. Nice instructions for Onyx, and also for a second program mentioned in the comments. This might be a nice way to help protect your investment. Another way to modify your startup screen to login with Active Directory is here.
EvilGator shares with us the solution. Nice work!
I finally got on the phone with a Senior Advisor at Apple. We created another user account (System Preferences > Accounts). Time Machine worked for that user. So, the Time Machine problem was user-specific.
We went back to the original user and moved to trash the folder <home folder>Library/Caches. From there we went and moved to the desktop <user>/Library/Preferences/com.apple.TimeMachine.plist.
We then restarted the mac. Upon restart, we entered Time Machine and it worked fine. The timeline had reappeared!Apparently there was something in the Cache that was causing the problem.
Time Machine has had a few issues. The biggest one seems to be this.
via Apple – Support – Discussions – Timeline not appearing in Time Machine ….
Thank you BobHarris.
System Preferences -> Universal Access -> Mouse -> Cursor size
However, I prefer using Mouse Locator (free download)
<http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/26157>I like this Mouse Locator Graphic
<http://homepage.mac.com/douglasn/locatorexchange/AD/1/MouseLocator.png>I also enjoy my 27″ iMac. It is just so nice withing on it.
via Apple – Support – Discussions – Is there any way to make the cursor ….
Chiisana solves the problem.
In order to remove US input source, for the adventurous few (see warning in previous reply), here are the procedures:
1) Make a backup of your preferences, via Time Machine or otherwise.
2) Download a plist editor.
3) Uncheck ALL input sources in System Preferences > Languages & Text > Input sources EXCEPT for 2, the one you want as primary, and the one you cannot remove. You can add them back later, just disable them for now.
3) Open ~/Library/Preferences/ByHost/com.apple.HIToolbox..plist * is a HEX string (hopefully) unique to your machine host using your plist editor.
4) Under “AppleEnabledInputSources”, delete the first node… should be something like:
<dict>
<key>InputSourceKind</key>
<string>Keyboard Layout</string>
KeyboardLayout ID
<integer>0</integer>
KeyboardLayout Name
<string>U.S.</string>
</dict>
5) Save, Login and out of your user, and you’re done.Hope this helps!
via Apple – Support – Discussions – How to disable.
via Apple – Support – Discussions – How do I change the default keyboard …. drchiarav has two solutions. This is the easiest.
If you don’t feel like using Terminal, here’s an even easier solution:
Go to System Preferences
Click on Accounts
Click on Login Options (house)
Click the lock to makes changes
Put in your password
Check “Show input menu in login window”
