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1. Open notepad.

2. Copy below string and paste it into notepad.

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Toolbar\WebBrowser\]
“ITBar7Position”=dword:00000001

3. Save the file as” ie8menu+.reg” with Save as type is All Files.

4. Double click the registry file, continue with UAC prompt and click OK to confirm you wish to perform the action.

Once you completed the above steps, launch the new instance of IE and you will notice that the menu bar is now appeared above the address bar.

If you would like to revert the above change, follow below steps:

1. Copy below string and paste it into notepad

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Toolbar\WebBrowser\]
“ITBar7Position”=dword:00000000

2. Save the file as “iemenu-.reg” with Save as type is All Files

3. Double click the registry file, continue with UAC prompt and click OK to confirm that you wish to perform the action.

Hat tip to Paul Thurrott

Remember! Microsoft Office Service Packs are cumulative, you only need the latest service pack.

Here’s how you slipstream Office 2007 Service Pack 2 (SP2).

1. Download the standalone installer (290 MB). The filename is office2007sp2-kb953195-fullfile-en-us.exe.

2. Create two folders in the root of your C: drive. (C:\Extract) and (C:\Updates).

3. Move the Office 2007 SP2 installer to the Extract folder.

4. Open a command line window (CMD with Administrative Privileges) and type the following:

CD C:\Extract

office2007sp2-kb953195-fullfile-en-us.exe /extract:C:\Updates

5. Agree to the EULA and then close the Installer when completed.

6. Move the contents of the C:\Updates folder to the Updates folder in your Office 2007 install folder structure.

7. Optionally, burn to disc or, update/file share.

The steps for preparing the USB Disk. Launch Command Prompt with Administrator privileges. Next follow the steps below:

1. Run Diskpart
2. List Disk
3. Select Disk 1 (Replace 1 with number reflecting your USB Drive)
4. clean
5. create partition primary
6. active
7. format fs=fat32 quick
8. assign
Now, a drive letter reflecting the drive should appear.

Copy the bits from the DVD to the USB Stick.
If you get errors along the way, simply remove the drive and repeat the process.

1. Press Win+R key and Type Regedit at run prompt

2. Locate following registry key

HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Authentication\LogonUI\Background

3. Now in right-side pane, change value of OEMBackground to 1.

4. Now place your custom image in %windir%\system32\oobe

5. Create a new folder info and background within newly created info folder

Folder path should look like this %windir%\System32\oobe\info\backgrounds

6. Now place your desired logon wallpaper within this background folder with file name as backgroundDefault.jpg

Images Name with resolutions

backgroundDefault.jpg

background768×1280.jpg (0.6)

background900×1440.jpg (0.625)

background960×1280.jpg (0.75)

background1024×1280.jpg (0.8)

background1280×1024.jpg (1.25)

background1024×768.jpg (1.33-)

background1280×960.jpg (1.33-)

background1600×1200.jpg (1.33-)

background1440×900.jpg (1.6)

background1920×1200.jpg (1.6)

background1280×768.jpg (1.66-)

background1360×768.jpg (1.770833-)

Please NOTE: Images must be less than 256kb in size

The backgroundDefault.jpg image is loaded and stretched-to-fit when a resolution/ratio specific background cannot be found.

Pre-requisites

GENERIC.ISO (burn to a CD Rom)
Wind Driver & Utility Pack v6.0.2
Wind Driver Bundle ONLY v6.0.2
Sentelic Installer Packs
Mac OS X 10.5.7 Combo Update
CHUD & Audieee4Wind

Download and install the latest BIOS update for your MSI Wind (Currently 1.0B). Since this is NOT instructions for dual booting you should ENABLE AHCI in the BIOS.

Step 1. Install Leopard.

1. Connect your DVD drive, USB mouse, keyboard and plug in the power to your MSI Wind.
2. Put your CD with generic.iso into the DVD drive.
3. Turn on your MSI Wind and once you see the MSI logo, hold down {F11} until you see the blue window. Now, choose your boot device
4. Select your DVD drive and then press {ENTER}. As the text appears wait for it to stop changing then press {ENTER} once.
   Now take your CD with generic.iso OUT and put OS X Retail DVD in.
5. Wait for the DVD drive to spin up so it can read it. 
6. When the drive is ready press {ENTER} you should see something like – "Press any key to boot from CD or press {F8} for boot options", press any key and….
7. Now you should see the familiar grey Apple and white background
8. Select the language you prefer and agree to the notices. Once you can, go to the Utility menu and choose Disk Utility
9. Right click on your HDD and select Partition
   Partition with following settings:
   1 or more partition(s)
   Name it whatever you want (the standard is Macintosh HD)
   Format type: Mac OX Leopard (Journaled)
   Click "Options" and select GUID partition table
   Now partition the drive
10. When it finishes partitioning quit disk utility and you will go back to the install. Complete the install
    (Note: you can reduce the amount of space by only installing the language(s) you need by clicking the customize button).

Step 4. Install Chameleon and Drivers

1. After the installation finishes and your MSI Wind reboots, put your generic.iso CD back in the drive. Boot it, but now enter "80" (without the quotes) and press {ENTER}
   You should see: hd, Macintosh HD or whatever you named your drive.
2. Here’s an important step, otherwise without a real Airport card you will enter the "Do you own a Mac" loop and never complete the setup. At the "Boot" prompt, type this line and you DO need to include the quotations " "
   "Graphics Mode"="640×480x32"  Press {ENTER}
   This forces OS X to bypass the entire new user registration screens. The only drawback is the screen is too small to do anything. So, just leave everything and choose Restart from the ? (Apple) menu.
3. Repeat the same process except just press {ENTER} at the Boot: prompt (DO not enter the "Graphics Mode"…. )
   If you only have a USB mouse. This time you will have an 800×600 screen and you can manually create your own account (Administrative with a password). The current account is "Admin" with an empty password so just click OK when it prompts you for the password.
4. Okay, now you should install the OS X 10.5.7 Combo Update and reboot. You still need to boot up with the generic.iso CD, so boot it like when you wanted to install OS X press {ENTER} once but then type in 80 and press {ENTER}. Because of the combo update the system will start to load but then reboot. When it does you have to repeat the CD boot process (press {F11}, etc)
5. Again boot it like when you wanted to install OS X press {ENTER} once type in 80 and press {ENTER}. Now it will finally boot to your OS X desktop.
6. Now let’s get your system to boot without the CD
   Extract the WindDriversPack v4.6.x
   Run the Bootloader.pkg (replaced Chameleon_DFE_for_harddisk.pkg) and install it on your hard drive
   
   You DO NOT need to reboot
   Now run the WindDriverPackv4.6.x package and install it. You should keep all the default items checked unless you do not have a Sentelic touchpad. Optionally you can install the SafeSleep boot option and or the Picture boot boot option. If you choose both, you will have the SafeSleep preference pane but you will not be able to hibernate.
7. Restart and it should now boot up from your hard drive, if not proceed to troubleshooting (boot via CD and reinstall Chameleon)
8. That’s it, you should now have a fully functional 10.5.7 with a working keyboard, touchpad, WSVGA video and audio (speakers only).
9. Video and final system customizations
   In the Toolkit folder you will find everything required for these next steps.

H/T to Steve

Hotmail now supports POP3!  The details follow below:

POP server: pop3.live.com (Port 995)  
POP SSL required? Yes
User name: Your Windows Live ID, for example your...@hotmail.com
Password: The password you usually use to sign in to Hotmail or Windows Live
SMTP server: smtp.live.com (Port 25)  
Authentication required? Yes (this matches your POP username and password)
TLS/SSL required? Yes

Hat Tip to Mario Sundar

5 Management Mantras

#10. On Management

My job is to not be easy on people. My job is to make them better. My job is to pull things together from different parts of the company and clear the ways and get the resources for the key projects.

And to take these great people we have and to push them and make them even better, coming up with more aggressive visions of how it could be.

#9. On Hiring

Recruiting is hard. It’s just finding the needles in the haystack. You can’t know enough in a one-hour interview.

So, in the end, it’s ultimately based on your gut. How do I feel about this person? What are they like when they’re challenged? I ask everybody that: ‘Why are you here?’ The answers themselves are not what you’re looking for. It’s the meta-data.

#8. On Firing

We’ve had one of these before, when the dot-com bubble burst. What I told our company was that we were just going to invest our way through the downturn, that we weren’t going to lay off people, that we’d taken a tremendous amount of effort to get them into Apple in the first place — the last thing we were going to do is lay them off.

#7. On a CEO succession Plan

I mean, some people say, ‘Oh, God, if [Jobs] got run over by a bus, Apple would be in trouble.’ And, you know, I think it wouldn’t be a party, but there are really capable people at Apple.

My job is to make the whole executive team good enough to be successors, so that’s what I try to do.

#6. On Product Strategy

It’s not about pop culture, and it’s not about fooling people, and it’s not about convincing people that they want something they don’t. We figure out what we want. And I think we’re pretty good at having the right discipline to think through whether a lot of other people are going to want it, too. That’s what we get paid to do.

We just want to make great products. (I think he means “insanely great products!“)

5 Leadership Mantras

#5. On Leadership

So when a good idea comes, you know, part of my job is to move it around, just see what different people think, get people talking about it, argue with people about it, get ideas moving among that group of 100 people, get different people together to explore different aspects of it quietly, and, you know – just explore things.

#4. On Evangelism

When I hire somebody really senior, competence is the ante. They have to be really smart. But the real issue for me is, Are they going to fall in love with Apple? Because if they fall in love with Apple, everything else will take care of itself.

They’ll want to do what’s best for Apple, not what’s best for them, what’s best for Steve, or anybody else. (this actually reiterates my oft-repeated mantra of “ubiquitous evangelism” in companies)

#3. On Focus

People think focus means saying yes to the thing you’ve got to focus on. But that’s not what it means at all. It means saying no to the hundred other good ideas that there are. You have to pick carefully.

#2. On the User Experience

Our DNA is as a consumer company — for that individual customer who’s voting thumbs up or thumbs down. That’s who we think about. And we think that our job is to take responsibility for the complete user experience. And if it’s not up to par, it’s our fault, plain and simply.

#1. On Creativity

That happens more than you think, because this is not just engineering and science. There is art, too. Sometimes when you’re in the middle of one of these crises, you’re not sure you’re going to make it to the other end. But we’ve always made it, and so we have a certain degree of confidence, although sometimes you wonder.

I think the key thing is that we’re not all terrified at the same time. I mean, we do put our heart and soul into these things.

We don’t get a chance to do that many things, and every one should be really excellent. Because this is our life.

Life is brief, and then you die, you know?

And we’ve all chosen to do this with our lives. So it better be damn good. It better be worth it.