I noticed last night that my desktop machine had "Customize", "Gear", "Connectivity', "Nuts and Bolts" and "Misc" in place of the normal names within the System Preferences window. The normal names are "Personal", "Hardware", "Internet & Network", "System", and "Other". I'm not sure how these were changed on my machine; I honestly do not recall doing it myself (and I searched the site for a hint about renaming system prefs and came up blank). Perhaps some third-party preference panel that I installed and removed changed them at some point. If you have some idea of what might have changed this, let me know (out of curiousity more than anything else).
In any event, noticing that they differed from the official names as seen on my iBook, I set out in search of what was controlling the names and discovered that they are relatively easy to change.
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NSPrefPaneGroups.strings is the file that controls the names of the areas in the System Preferences, and it can be found buried in the System Preferences application. In the Finder, control-click on the System Preferences application, then open Contents then Resources then English.lproj. You should now see a listing of four files, including the NSPrefPaneGroups.strings file.
If you open the file with TextEdit, you'll see how it works - the category definition is on the left, followed by an equals sign, and then the displayed name is on the right. By default, the file will look like this:
"personal" = "Personal";To change the names, just replace the words on the right with the words you'd like to use ... except this file is owned by root, so you won't be able to save the changes.
"hardware" = "Hardware";
"net" = "Internet & Network";
"system" = "System";
"addons" = "Other";
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