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How to fix "About This Mac" in the system profiler

I tried many different things to fix this in snow leopard has anybody figured a way to fix it? :

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@00010 Published 2010-01-05
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Snow Leopard 10.6
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10,145 historical reads · 3 curated field notes (from 7 dispatches) · 2010-01-05 – 2010-01-07
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I tried many different things to fix this in snow leopard has anybody figured a way to fix it? :

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Author Update #1 @00010 2010-01-05

Ok good but well it still fix my "About this mac" if the info has already been altered?, It just says now "Version_Format_String".

Author Update #2 @00010 2010-01-05

Yea, messed it up right good with osx86 tools… :

Author Update #3 @00010 2010-01-07

Well I am trying to fix it not make it less broken…heh heh...

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3 technical responses curated from 7 original dispatches

Field Note #1 @Imkantus 2010-01-05

Well PC_EFI 10.5 used to fix my processor info on the netbook, from beeing detected as Core Solo to the correct display of Intel Atom N270 - don't know if that will work in your case.

Every other SystemProfiler and About this Mac info can be injected via smbios.plist

Field Note #2 @Imkantus 2010-01-05

How did you messed it up? Tried to use OSx86 Tools?

Field Note #3 @Imkantus 2010-01-05

Probably when you try using "Restore Strings System Files to Defaults" option? OSx86 Tools are used to create a back-up...

Making it even more worse ain't possible I think.

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@00010Primary Author42010-01-05 → 2010-01-07
@ImkantusCore Contributor32010-01-05