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How to control 'Extensions' pref pane in System Preferences

  • March 31, 2015
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Hi, My 10.10 is almost ready to be deployed to prod except that I am unable to hide Extensions Preferences inside System preferences. as I am unable to find the CFBundleIdentifier of this pref pane.
Currently it is greyed out because I have not added it in 'Enabled' nor 'Hidden' preferences array.
Any idea what is the Identifier for this?

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    mm2270
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    • mm2270
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    • March 31, 2015

    Cindy,
    All the OS default System Preference Panes live in the path of /System/Library/PreferencePanes/
    Looking in there on a 10.10.2 Mac I see one labeled as Extensions.prefPane which is the one you're after. To get the Bundle Identifier, you need the following command from Terminal:

    defaults read /System/Library/PreferencePanes/Extensions.prefPane/Contents/Info CFBundleIdentifier

    That returns:

    com.apple.preferences.extensions

    And you can replace the path above to any other Preference Pane to get its Bundle Identifier as well.

    Hope that helps.

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    • cindySingh
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    • March 31, 2015

    This is super amazing :) now i can use this location to control everything else!!
    Thankyou so much Mike!!!!

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