If you are deleting multiple items on your BlackBerry Storm 9500 series smartphone, it can get irritating when you have to confirm the deletion on every single item. Here’s how to disable the Confirm Delete prompt.

1. Open an application.

2. Press Menu.

3. Select Options.

4. Select General Options.

5. Change the Confirm Delete to No.

6. Press Menu.

7. Select Save.

Now you will no longer be prompted to delete the item.

I had a problem in Windows XP where I would double-click any folder and it would open the Search box instead. Luckily the fix was easy.

1. Hold down the Windows key and press R or click Start > Run.

2. Type regsvr32 shell32.dll and click OK.

You should get a dialog that the file was registered sucessfully. Now try to open any folder. Hopefully it will have opened the folder instead of Search.

When you try to open any of the drives on your PC, instead of opening it so that you can see the files, it opens an Open With box instead.

Try the following to fix this issue:

1. Right-click on the problematic drive and select Explore. This should open the drive.

2. Look for anything related to AUTORUN on it. Like an autorun.inf file. (You may need to Show All Hidden and System Files on the drive in order to see everything.)

3. Delete any autorun.inf or autorun related files on the drive.

Alternately you may download and run Flash Disinfector. This application will remove the autorun junk that a virus usually leaves behind.

I had a strange problem with my computer, and I’m not sure how it got this way. Before I logged into Windows, I couldn’t right-click on any dialog buttons. Everything was switched around and I had to use the left mouse button instead on prompts to reset my password or when the login failed and I had to try again. I could right-click just fine though once I logged into the system.

I checked my Control Panel, and everything was setup normally. It turns out there is a setting in the registry that controls the swapping of the mouse buttons prior to login.

1. XP: Click Start > Run and type regedit.
Vista: Click Start, type regedit and open the Registry Editor.

2. Navigate to HKEY_USERS\.DEFAULT\Control Panel\Mouse and set SwapMouseButtons

Alternately, you can download and run the swapmouse.reg file to import these settings.

Also note, there is a separate registry entry for swapping the mouse buttons per user. That setting would be triggered after the login process.

Are you annoyed by the Confirm delete prompt that appears when you delete messages, tasks and almost anything on your BlackBerry Bold 9000 series device? Here’s how to disable it.

1. In an application, press Menu.

2. Click Options.

3. Click General Options (may not be an option in some apps).

4. Change the Confirm Delete to No.

5. Press Menu.

6. Click Save.

Now when you delete an item in that application, you will no longer be prompted to delete the item.

After installing Firefox 3 along with my StumbleUpon toolbar, I started getting these annoying toolbar tips that kept appearing. I discovered a way to disable them though.

1. In the address bar, type about:config in the address bar and press Enter.

2. Locate and double-click the entry for browser.chrome.toolbar_tips

3. Double-click on it to set it to false.

When you open a file in Windows XP that has a corrupted video, image files, HTML pages, or MP3 file, Windows Explorer crashes.

You will need to somehow access this folder so that you can delete the offensive file. You will need to unregister 2 DLL’s to prevent the Windows from previewing the file, which is what is actually causing Windows Explorer to crash.

1. Click Start > Run and type regsvr32 /u shimgvw.dll and click OK.

2. Click Start > Run and type regsvr32 /u shmedia.dll and click OK.

3. Delete the file that is corrupted.

4. Click Start > Run and type regsvr32 shimgvw.dll and click OK.

5. Click Start > Run and type regsvr32 shmedia.dll and click OK.

Disable the annoying message in Windows XP and Windows Vista that says:

This page has an unspecified potential security risk

You can receive this message when you access a file on a network resource.

In order to disable this message, you have to add the UNC path to the server where the files are stored to your trusted sites in Internet Options within Internet Explorer. Here’s how:

1. Open Internet Explorer and click Tools > Internet Options.

2. Click the Security tab.

3. Click Trusted Sites.

4. Click Default Level.

5. Set the Allowed levels for this zone to Low.

6. Click Sites. Read more… »

How to turn off the annoying printer notification messages that appears when an event occurs on your printer in Windows XP.

1. Click the Start > Settings > Printers and Faxes.

2. Click the File > Server Properties.

3. Click the Advanced tab.

4. Uncheck the following boxes:

• Show informational notifications for local printers.
• Show informational notifications for network printers.
• Notify when remote documents are printed.

5. Click OK.

Now those annoying printer notification warnings should be turned off.

How to disable the hyperlink balloon that appears in Outlook 2007 when you click a hyperlink in an email.

The warning that appears is:

Opening “path/filename”.
Hyperlinks can be harmful to your computer and data. To protect your computer, click only those hyperlinks from trusted sources. Do you want to continue?

Let’s disable it with the following steps.

1. In Windows XP, Click Start > Run.
In Windows Vista, hold down the Windows key and press R.

2. Type regedit and click OK.

3. Click the plus sign next to HKEY_CURRENT_USER
then Software
then Microsoft
then Office
then 12.0
then Common
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Unless you disable this message on your BlackBerry device, it will place a message that says Sent from Blackberry Wireless device at the bottom of every email you send out. Here is how to prevent it.

1. Select Messages.

2. Select Options.

3. Select Email Settings.

4. Set Use Auto Signature to No.

You can do the steps above or just change the Auto Signature message.

I had a problem where a window would appear with a folder that said iPod_Control whenever I attached my iPod or put music on it using iTunes. The window would disappear after about 5 seconds.

For some reason, my iPod was detected by Windows as a USB Mass Storage Device. I noticed that there were 2 of these listed in my Device Manager. One of them seemed to indicate a problem with a little yellow icon. After removing both of these Mass Storage Devices, I then restarted my computer. The problem was then solved.

Here is a step by step process on how I did this.

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Disable the message Are you sure you want to permanently delete all the items and subfolders in the “folder name” folder, when you are cleaning items out of a folder such as the Deleted Items folder and save a step every time.

1. In Outlook 2007, select Tools > Options.

2. Click the Other tab and select Advanced Options…

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When you start Max OS X Leopard, the Setup Assistant appears. After filling it out and clicking Done, it still remains on your screen and won’t go away. Attempts to Force Quit the application doesn’t work either.

To solve this issue, you will need to restart your Mac in Safe Mode by holding down the Shift key while it starts.  Once you are in under Safe Mode, go to the Setup Assistant menu and quit.

Restart the computer and it shouldn’t bother you anymore.

It looks like there are a bunch of iPod Touch users that keep getting a screen prompting them for a January Upgrade. When clicking on No Thanks or Remind me later they get an error:

An error occurred. The iTunes store could not process your request.

Then the message won’t go away.

Here are some steps to try for this issue:

1. Unplug the iPod Touch and disconnect the computer from the Internet.

2. Close iTunes.

3. Wait a few seconds and Re-Connect the iPod Touch.

4. Start iTunes.

5. When prompted with the message, click Remind me later or No Thanks, then OK then quickly click the X button at the top to stop loading iTunes shop.

6. Close iTunes and reconnect to the Internet.

7. Start iTunes.

For more assistance, you might want to try the Apple Forum entries: Can’t get rid of iTouch upgrade offer

Prevent iPhoto from detecting and importing photos from your iPhone when you connect it to your Mac.

You can accomplish this by changing this setting:

1. Open the Image Capture application from the Applications folder.

2. Select Image Capture > Preferences.

3. For the option When a camera is connected select No application. Click OK.

Now you shouldn’t be bothered with any prompts to import photos from your iPhone.

I had a big problems with Flash ads locking up my computer. The ads have become increasingly intrusive and annoying. They pop up, cover what your reading and at times, you can’t get rid of them. I found a hack that prevents flash movies from loading unless you tell them play. It provides a nice Click to play option on the areas of the screen displaying Flash content in Firefox. It works on most Flash movies. Here’s how you add it.

1. Find your Firefox profile folder, located at C:\Documents and Settings\username\Application Data\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\randomvalue\chrome

If you are using a different skin other than chrome, replace chrome with the name of the skin you are using.

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Would you like to stop the message: The application program name quit unexpectedly from appearing when a program crashes? You can do this using the Terminal application.

1. Open Terminal from the Utilites folder.

2. Type:

defaults write com.apple.CrashReporter DialogType none

and press Enter.

To enable it again in the future, use defaults write com.apple.CrashReporter DialogType prompt

Dear Apple,

I was using iTunes today and found a song by Enrique Iglesias. Oh how I wanted to hear his lyrical mastery in the song Don’t Turn Out the Lights. However when I double-clicked the song, the classic exclamation mark appeared to tell me the song has somehow disappeared. My heart was so broken. I was so ready to lip sync to the song in my whitey tighties.

To prevent this from happening again, I have searched high and low for a solution to rid myself of songs that do not exist on my hard drive anymore, but still appear on my iTunes library list. This doesn’t appear to be a feature of your software at all.

When you find the time, do you think you can add a Rebuild Music Index feature or an option to remove songs that don’t exist into your software or something? Otherwise I will be forever cursed with having over 500 songs listed in iTunes that don’t exist because there is no way to sort them and delete them all at once.

Sincerely,

Mitch
Technipages.com

P.S. I chose to provide you a photo of my screen instead of me in my whitey tighties as I had intended. Let me know if you would like to see that instead.

How to disable the annoying help screen tips in Outlook 2007.

1. In Outlook 2007, under the Tools menu, click Customize.

2. Click the Options tab.

3. Under Other, uncheck the box for Show ScreenTips on toolbars.