Month: October 2015

1.  Login with the admin user.

2.  Open a terminal by hiting CTRL+ALT+T

3.  Type shell

4.  Type sudo stop powerm

5.  Type sudo stop powerd

As long as you don’t restart, power management will be disabled.

If you’re locked out of your MAC, follow these steps to reset the password.

First

Step 1 – Restart your Mac, and get ready to boot into OS X Recovery Mode.

Step 2 – While restarting, hold down CMD + R until the Apple logo appears.

Step 3 – Go to Utilities > Terminal to open a Terminal. In the Terminal window, type resetpassword and press Enter.

 

Now, using the Reset Password Console

Step 1 – Select your OS X drive.

Step 2 – From the drop-down under “Select the user account:”, choose the user account that you want to reset password.

Step 3 – Type in new password.

Step 4 – Once you’re done, click on Save.

Restart and login.

Screenshot

* I tested this on the root account, and it worked fine. If keychain comes up when you try to login, just select “Login”—do not try to enter a password into keychain.

Open Launchpad
Locate the ‘Paused’ app
Hold down your option key on keyboard
— the icons will wiggle in delete mode
Delete the paused/hung download
Reinitialize the download from the App store

This is the proper way to remove “pinned” icons from the Start Menu.

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Const CSIDL_APPDATA = &H1A

Dim objShell
Dim objFolder
Dim objFolderItem
Dim objVerb
Dim objCurrentUserAppData
Dim strCurrentUserAppData
Set objShell = CreateObject("Shell.Application")
Set objCurrentUserAppData = objShell.NameSpace(CSIDL_APPDATA)
strCurrentUserAppData = objCurrentUserAppData.Self.Path

Set objFolder = objShell.Namespace(strCurrentUserAppData & "\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Quick Launch\User Pinned\StartMenu")
Set objFolderItem = objFolder.ParseName("<strong>Shortcut Name.lnk</strong>")
For Each objVerb in objFolderItem.Verbs
If Replace(objVerb.name, "&", "") = "Unpin from Start Menu" Then objVerb.DoIt
Next

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Const CSIDL_COMMON_PROGRAMS = &H17 
Const CSIDL_PROGRAMS = &H2 
Set objShell = CreateObject("Shell.Application") 

Set objAllUsersProgramsFolder = objShell.NameSpace(CSIDL_COMMON_PROGRAMS) 
strAllUsersProgramsPath = objAllUsersProgramsFolder.Self.Path 
Set objFolder = objShell.Namespace("C:\Pinned_Shortcuts") 

Set objFolderItem = objFolder.ParseName("Notepad.lnk") 
Set colVerbs = objFolderItem.Verbs 
For Each objVerb in colVerbs 
    If Replace(objVerb.name, "&", "") = "Pin to Start Menu" Then objVerb.DoIt 
Next

Set objFolderItem = objFolder.ParseName("Calculator.lnk") 
Set colVerbs = objFolderItem.Verbs 
For Each objVerb in colVerbs 
    If Replace(objVerb.name, "&", "") = "Pin to Start Menu" Then objVerb.DoIt 
Next

Set objFolderItem = objFolder.ParseName("MSInfo32.lnk") 
Set colVerbs = objFolderItem.Verbs 
For Each objVerb in colVerbs 
    If Replace(objVerb.name, "&", "") = "Pin to Start Menu" Then objVerb.DoIt 
Next

Set objFolderItem = objFolder.ParseName("Write.lnk") 
Set colVerbs = objFolderItem.Verbs 
For Each objVerb in colVerbs 
    If Replace(objVerb.name, "&", "") = "Pin to Start Menu" Then objVerb.DoIt 
Next

document.onkeydown = function(){
switch (event.keyCode){
case 116 : //F5 button
event.returnValue = false;
event.keyCode = 0;
return false;
case 82 : //R button
if (event.ctrlKey){
event.returnValue = false;
event.keyCode = 0;
return false;
}
}
}

install.msi /qn /norestart