Removing Preference Panes Manually
System preferences are located in one of two places on your Mac. The first location is used for preference panes that are only used by you.
You'll find these personal preference panes located in your home folder in the Library/PreferencePanes directory.
- ~/YourHomeFolderName/Library/PreferencePanes
The other location for system preference panes is in the system library folder. This location is used for preference panes that can be used by any user who has an account on your Mac.
You'll find the public preference panes located at:
Once you figure out which folder a preference pane is located in, you can use the Finder to go to that folder and drag the unwanted preference pane to the trash.