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Desktop and Screensaver preferences will not open

Whenever I go to open the Desktop & Screen Saver pane in System Preferences, it won't work and I get the message "Preferences Error: Could not load Desktop & Screen Saver preference pane." If anyone could provide me with information on how to fix this that would be great. Thank you!!

MacBook Pro with Retina display, iOS 8.1.2

Posted on Jan 7, 2015 10:21 AM

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Jan 7, 2015 10:25 AM in response to JMWILLS

Close all windows and quit all applications.

Hold the option key down and click the "Go" menu in the Finder menubar.

Select "Library" from the dropdown, then "Preferences" folder.

Look for these two files.

com.apple.desktop.plist

com.apple.systempreferences.plist

Right click each one of those and select " Move To Trash" from the contextual menu.

Restart the computer.

Desktop and Screensaver preferences will not open

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