Tagged: Desktop and System

Need to access program menus faster?

MenuPop Menu Utility Review Updated MacLife. I often see people with large monitors become very good at using keyboard commands because of the time it takes to move the mouse to the menu bar. This program is another alternative. The $5 program works in Snow Leopard programs and allows the menu to be available with a keystroke. Might save time. Would have been better to be activated with a right-click.

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Losing Windows 7 Shares, and my hair.

DuPont Registry
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Apple – Support – Discussions – Losing Windows 7 Shares, and my hair. …. He solves his own issue:

OK, I solved it. I found an answer at http://alan.lamielle.net/2009/09/03/windows-7-nonpaged-pool-srv-error-2017 that details a registry change that makes windows 7 act more like a server.

Set the following registry key to ’1′:

HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Session Manager\Memory Management\LargeSystemCache

and set the following registry key to ’3′:

HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\LanmanServer\Parameters\Size

 

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Need an application launcher for Mac OS X??

HimmelBar – Welcome.  According to the website:

HimmelBar provides an icon in the menu bar to quickly access your installed applications by scanning standard locations such as local, user, network and developer applications. You can also add a custom location such as the Classic Applications folder, or any other folder of your hard disk that contains applications.

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Free Speed Launch From Microsoft Labs Is Worth A Look (via Bill Mullins’ Weblog – Tech Thoughts)

This is an interesting program. If you are looking for another way to launch applications you might like this.

Free Speed Launch From Microsoft Labs Is Worth A Look Windows “Start” menu is pretty cool – it acts much like a one stop shop for application launch, and it allows access to additional functions and computer locations. Overall, the start menu suits me well, but I’m always curious about tools that claim to make my Windows experience a little faster or, a little easier. So, when I came across a small free application from Microsoft Office Labs – Speed Launch, I took it for a spin. Speed Launch, at its … Read More

via Bill Mullins’ Weblog – Tech Thoughts

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