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After installing Mac OS X 10.6.0, on my MacBook Pro 2.16gz, my system preferences started acting up. On the first launch it stalls and the force quit window says that the application is (not responding). After a "force quit" it launches on the second try, every time. At least it is consistent through every update to 10.6.4.

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Anything interesting in the Console.app logs? Do you have custom .prefPanes installed? Does it happen for every user on your machine? – Daniel Beck Oct 24 '10 at 15:32
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I would suspect an incompatible 3rd party preference pane. Start up in Safe Mode by holding down the shift key at startup. This will temporarily disable 3rd party items, as well as do a disk check and dump the caches. If is starts up ok in Safe Mode, look in Library/PreferencePanes in both root and user directory to see if there are any suspicious characters there.

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Thanks for your help. Once in safe mode, is there something in the Library/PrefencesPanes that will be obviously suspicious? – Jerry Jesch Oct 26 '10 at 14:29
Actually anything in this folder should be 3rd party. Remove them all and add them back one at a time. I assume Safe Mode worked? – Theo Belk Oct 26 '10 at 21:36
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