Google Chrome ships with a plethora of different system languages to suit any user. When I downloaded it, it installed with norwegian as the default language. I prefer having my software in english, so here’s how to change the system language:
- Click the wrench icon
- Select “options”
- Go to the middle tab (in English it is called “Minor tweaks”
- Click “Change font and language settings”
- In the Font and language settings dialog box, select the “Languages” tab
- In the Languages tab, select the desired language from the drop-down menu.
I’ve previously showed you how to disable the Caps Lock key in Ubuntu. There are many ways of doing this in Windows as well, my favorite is to simply remap it to something else.
Microsoft have published a tool kit called Windows Server 2003 Resource Kit Tools. In it is a nifty little utility called remapkey.exe. Download and install the tool kit. I installed it to the default location (C:\Program files\Windows Resource Kits\Tools). Once installed, simply open the folder to see the plethora of utilities it comes with:
The utility shows you two keyboard setups, a base keyboard and a remapped keyboard. Simply drag keys from the base keyboard onto the key you want to remap on the remapped keyboard. In the screenshot below, you’ll see I’ve remapped caps lock to left shift:
When you hit save, the program warns you that you’ll lose the Capslock key:
The change requires a reboot, but once you’ve rebooted, you’re in the caps lock free environment you were wanting.
The tool works with Windows 2000, XP, Server 2003 and Vista. In Vista you’ll need administrative privileges to do this.
As you might notice, I’ve got a favicon, a small picture, on my blog. Here’s what it looks like in Firefox:
It’s actually pretty simple to implement in Blogger. To do it, you’ll need to have somewhere to store the favicon file. Favicons are imagefiles (dimensions 16 by 16 pixels) ending in .ico. Apparently, Tripod offer free hosting, and they support .ico files. Once you’ve got your favicon ready, and uploaded, you need to open the administration page for your blog, and then go to the “Layout” tab, opening the “Edit HTML” subtab. You’ll then see a page looking something like this:
Find the <head> tag, and insert the following snippet of code immediately below it:
<link href=’http://www.domain.com/favicon.ico’ rel=’shortcut icon’ type=’image/x-icon’/>
Save the template, and voilà, it’s ready.
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In my last post, I showed you how to use the GPEdit app to change the default Save As/Open locations. There’s another way to do this, using that great little tool called TweakUI.
If you haven’t gotten it already, download and install it before reading on.
Here’s how to make the tweak:
- Open TweakUI
- Navigate to the Common Dialogsentry
- Open the entry called “Places Bar”
- Set the settings as you want like so:
- You have a few predefined places, but you can point it to local folders such as c:\example\foldername or even remote computers such as \\remote.computer.network.net\folder
I’ve been annoyed that I’ve not been able to change the default Save As/Open locations, as well as changing the 5 options I get on the Places Bar. Here’s what it looks like default:
Now, there are two ways of changing this, this first one uses the GPEdit or Group Policy Editor app which you might remember from my post on branding Internet Explorer. Here’s how we go about changing it:
Here’s the end product:
My last post showed us the simple, though fiddly way of turning off the mail count in the Windows XP login screen. As things turn out, there’s a second, more user friendly way of doing this, although it means installing a new program.
Let’s start by assuming that you still have the problem, and want to remove it, but don’t want to muck about in the registry. Microsoft have made a power tool called Tweak UI, which among many many other things can help you solve this. You can get TweakUI here.
Once you’ve downloaded and installed TweakUI, here’s how you go about doing it:
- Open TweakUI
- Navigate to the Logon entry
- Open the entry called “Unread mail”
- Uncheck the “Show unread mail on Welcome screen” check box like so:
Here’s the result:
In a previous post I talked about using Windows’ “Safely Remove Hardware” dialog to avoid losing data from USB drives. Having done some more research, I’ve found a way to create a shortcut to this dialog.
The shortcut is simple to create, and uses a RunDll32.exe command that looks like this:
RunDll32.exe shell32.dll,Control_RunDLL hotplug.dll
- To create it, right-click on your desktop and select New, then Shortcut.
- In the Create Shortcut dialog, paste the above command, and click “Next”.
- Name it what you will, for example “Ejecting USB Drives”.
- Click “Complete”.
If you want to, you could also assign a hotkey:
- Right-click the newly made shortcut and click Properties
- In Properties, select the “Hotkey” field, and enter the hotkey you’d like, e.g. Win+S
- Click Use, then OK
A while back I was unfortunate enough to run across a pirated copy of Windows on one of my computers. Naturally, I had a legal Product Key, but how to change the Product Key so that you’re not bugged by the Windows Genuine Advantage utility?
The whole process is pretty simple, as Microsoft has made a tool to do just this. All you need to do is download it, run it, and the utility does the rest of the job.
The utility is called Windows Product Key Update Tool, and can be found here. Once downloaded, you simply need to run it, and follow the instructions. The tool starts by validating the system, and then asks you to copy and paste your 25-character product key:
Once this is done, the tool will pretty much do the job all on its own, so all you need do is sit back, relax, and wait until it’s done.
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Have you ever returned to your computer only to find it having restarted, and all of your data gone? For a myriad of reasons, I keep my computers running continuously for a long time at a time. This makes this insistence on a reboot not only annoying, but in its extremes, it can actually make me lose work. To prevent this, I have disabled the auto-reboot, and I am no longer annoyed with repeated requests for reboots.
For some reason, there is no GUI-button for this setting, so we have to edit the Group Policy of the computer. This is relatively safe, as long as you don’t start to fiddle with anything you do not know what is. The process is as follows:
- In the Start-menu, hit run
- In the window that opens (it is called “Run”), enter gpedit.msc
- Locate the following subfolder:
Computer Configuration > Administrative Templates > Windows Components > Windows Update
- Double-click the setting “No auto-restart for scheduled Automatic Updates installations”
- Choose “Enabled”
- Click “Apply”
- Close the gpedit.msc window
Congratulations! One less annoyance to contend with.
In a previous blogpost I wrote about my favorite Firefox extensions. One thing that annoys me though, is that whenever I try to install an extension, Firefox shows a dialog box, and grays out the “install” button for three seconds, like this:
Naturally, this is annoying, but easily remedied. To do this, you need to do the following:
1: In the Firefox address bar, type “about:config” and hit enter
2: Click the “I’ll be careful, I promise!” button
3: In the Filter text box, enter “security.dialog_enable_delay”
4: Change the value to 0
Having done this, you’ll find that the delay no longer appears.
2008 STFU && RTFM