Hey, Dude, Where's my Trackpad Prefpane?

Just unpacked and set up my new 27" iMac, decided to get a trackpad with it. For some odd reason, I don't see a prefpane for it the "Show All" System Prefernces window. If I enter "trackpad" in the search field, the top hit is "trackpad", when I select it, it loads the normal-as-far-as-I-can-tell Trackpad prefpane; so I can get to it when I need to, but its non-apparency is baffling. The trick listed here does not seem to apply. I have tried re-running the 10.9.1 updater.


Any ideas? TIA,


Jeff

iMac, OS X Mavericks (10.9.1), late 2013 27", 3.5GHz, 8GB

Posted on Jan 19, 2014 2:02 PM

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Jan 21, 2014 5:33 PM in response to Jeff Mark

Well, it turns out I was snookered by a new, or at least new-ish, feature of which I was not aware. I was, more or less idly, looking at the menus for System Preferences, and under View saw Customize...


When I selected it, little check boxes appeared next to each of my pref pane icons, including the only unchecked box, next to Trackpad. I checked it, clicked Done, and there it was. Dunno how it got unchecked, but never mind that.


I'm not sure how many pref panes it takes before you have so many you need to hide some (maybe security issues), but, I suppose... I note that other than orgnizing by category or alphabetically, there's still apparently no other way to customize the arrangement of pref pane icons, e.g., their order within a category row.

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