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Windows 7: How-to Hide the Libraries Icon and Window-Previews

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Win7 Libraries FolderOn my new corporate computer installed with Windows 7 OS, these two things bugged me from the very beginning: how can I remove this unnecessary “Libraries” folder from the desktop (still didn’t figure out what it is for) and how I can disable these window preview hovers (because I know in which window I have what information).

Windows 7 Taskbar Preview

It turned out that I am definitely not alone with both requests – at least that’s what Google told me when querying these topics. But more suprised I was about the fact, that both settings need to digg into the RegEdit and are not standard OS features.

Anyway, here’s what to do:
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OS X: Free space on your Time Machine backup drive

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OS X Time Machine IconRecently I discovered, that my external hard drive for Time Machine backups is slowly running out of space – only ~20 GB left on a 320GB drive.

Searching through the web I did not find any up-to-date help on how to properly remove old backups in order to have more space available. But when trying the most easy and obvious way, I figured out that’s how Apple intended to do it:
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OS X: 10.7 Post-Upgrade checklist

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OS X Lion LogoI just upgraded my OS X Snow Leopard install to the new Mac OS 10.7 Lion and I am stunned: never before the upgrade process was so easy and fast! Once again it’s amazing what job the Apple Developers achieved, considering it’s a full operating system upgrade.

There are enough posts and reviews about 10.7 Lion, so I am not going to write anything about it in general. But I provide a (happily) short post-upgrade checklist of the things I had to take care after upgrading.

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OS X: set Front Row to show preferably on secondary Screen

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Front RowThis is the best solution I found in the world wide web to overcome the missing feature, to use Front Row on a secondary d isplay screen:

  1. Download the tool displaysInfo
     
  2. Start Applications > Utilities > Terminal.app
     
  3. Drag-n-Drop the displaysInfo-file to the Terminal window & press Return
     
  4. Read the DisplayID of the display you want to send Front Row to
     
  5. Execute the following command in the open Terminal window (replacing “xxxxxxxx” with the DisplayID of your preferred screen): 
    

    defaults write com.apple.frontrow FrontRowUsePreferredDisplayID xxxxxxxx

 
Whenever you have now that display connected to your Mac, Front Row will use it to show up on that screen, no matter what your main display is set to. The nice “side effect” of this whole solution is, that you only defined a “preferred display” – so when it’s not available, Front Row just starts on the primary screen.

Similiar Utilities

hmscreens

References used

mac-forums.com
whirlpool.net.au – Mac Forums
beauchamp.me – Mac

Windows XP: pass a file to an application that will be executed as admin user

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Windows XP LogoChallenge?
Run a Windows application as the local Admin user, and directly pass a file path to open with that app.

Fail attempts…
I thought a Windows Command Line script would be the easiest to achieve my challenge. So I tried using…

RUNAS – which runs a specific application under the given name. BUT doesn’t allow to pass a parameter (f.eg. file path)

START – starts an application and let’s you pass a parameter (f.eg. file path). BUT doesn’t allow you to start the application as a different user.

Solution!
So I continued searching the Internet, and I finally stumbled upon a hint which lead me to the solution: you need to modify a shortcut to the affected application!

In my case I had the issue with the Adobe AIR package- installer and passing directly an Adobe AIR-application to it for install.

Here’s what I did:

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