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How to disable the start screen on Windows 8 Release Preview?
The old advice to set the REG_DWORD value named RPEnabled (some sources claim it's RPEnable) under HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer to 0 doesn't work anymore since ...
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How do I change the tile image of a Modern UI application?
Let's say I want to change the icon of the Weather application, how would I do that?
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How to replace text in the body of an incoming message with a hyperlink in Outlook 2010?
Does anyone know of a way or a program that will read a received email and recognize a static format of text (in my case it will be "#" followed by 6 integers), and make that a hyperlink to a webpage? ...
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How to override the CSS of a site in Firefox with userContent.css?
In Mozilla Firefox, I want to create userContent.css which overrides the CSS of a site, say this one.
Where should I create the file? Could you please describe it based on Windows 7?
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How can I customize my Ubuntu installation?
I just installed Ubuntu on my netbook, and I'd like to customize it but don't know where to start. Do you know of any tips or guides for customizing Ubuntu?
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Windows 7 Registry Settings Documentation
Is there some documentation on the various Windows 7 registry settings?
Preferably from Microsoft or in some kind of Wiki?
E.g. what settings exist for the Taskbar, Start Menu, Explorer, etc.
I've ...
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Remove Libraries from Windows 8 Explorer sidebar
I had removed the Libraries from my Windows 7 with this registry tweaks, but since the update to Windows 8 the Libraries are back in my Windows Explorer.
So I tried to tweak the registry again, but ...
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How to build a custom command with options
I want to make a command on my Mac to do the following:
git add .
git commit -m CUSTOM_COMMEND_BY_COMMAND
git push
cap deploy
I seem to be calling those very often. I was wondering what's the best ...
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Good ways to change Icons in Windows XP?
I'm looking for a good, preferably fast way to change icons in Windows XP. I've found a few methods, but they weren't exactly efficient.
EDIT: to clarify, I'm looking for alternatives similar to ...
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How can I remove the Dock in Mac OS X?
Does anyone know how to remove the Dock in Mac OS X?
I was also wondering if I could move that bar to the right side of the screen.
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How to add a Windows Explorer context menu item with custom functionality?
I'd like to be able to right-click on a file in Windows Explorer, then the 7-Zip sub-menu, and then instead of something like, 'Add to archive...', I'd like, 'Add to <filename>-<today's ...
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Creating special commands for Notepad++ using NppExec
Notepad++ has a convenient timestamp facility built-in with the choice of short or long formats, but both use the built-in date format of the computer they're on, showing either the month first (if ...
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Hide “Logged on”, “# programs running” on WinXP Fast User Switching
When Fast User Switching is activated on a Windows XP machine, it returns the user to the Welcome Screen and allows logging on to a different account. Any active users have either "# of programs ...
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cmd.exe customizing the “Open Command Prompt here” shell extension
Thought I would see if anyone had any pointers on the following situation. I've been customizing command prompt to my needs, and recently changed the prompt for my user. Instead of displaying the path ...
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Is there a way to hide Terminal.app's credentials (prompt text)?
I lose too many columns in my terminal because of the credentials ( Victor-Rodriguess-MacBook-Pro:~ victorrodrigues$ ). Could I shrink this?
The only information I see as really needed sometimes for ...
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Desktop Space reservation
This might be a bit of a stretch, but is there some software or method available to reserve desktop space, but allow certain programs to use it? Sort of like dividing the desktop so that maximizing a ...
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Is there a way to create a custom hotkey in Windows that will close the current window or sub-window?
First of all, let me point out that I'm certainly familiar with the age-old Alt+F4 shortcut, so that's not exactly what I want.
Probably half the programs I use on a regular basis have the Ctrl+W ...
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Windows 7 copy files dialogue - option to replace on CRC mismatch?
Started using 7 : nice of them to ask me if I want my files to be replaced/skipped/renamed but very poor implementation : is there a way to tell windows to immediately replace files on CRC match and ...
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CSS-targeting the white page that Chrome displays for a split-second while loading
When you click on a link in Chrome to go from page x to page y, for a split-second it displays a white empty page. I want to make that page black so it won't hurt my eyes.
Now, I'm a fresh graduate ...
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Windows 7 and wallpaper folders
I try to change my desktop wallpaper and I cannot choose a different folder from the one I chose at first...
When I first installed W7 I changed the wallpaper by right-clicking in the desktop and ...
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Firefox- How to change font size of right-click context menu?
Using Firefox v9.0.1 on OS X Lion v10.7.2
In userChrome.css, how do I adjust the font size that appears in the context menu when you right-click on something (like a link) on a web page?
I tried DOM ...
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Changing the contents of the New Tab page
How can I disable some sections of "New tab" contents in Chromium (not Chrome)?
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How can I make desktop.ini work on network locations?
I've got a simple desktop.ini file that applies a folder icon. I'd like it to work on a network location, as we have an external hard drive connected to our network. However, the desktop.ini seems to ...
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Ubuntu 10.10: 2nd instance of Firefox does not obey GTK2 customizations
On Ubuntu 10.10 I started a 2nd instance of Firefox using the command:
$ firefox -ProfileManager -no-remote &
Created a new profile and everything works smoothly except for the fact that this ...
