Enable Hibernation in Vista

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Enable Hibernation in Vista

November 18, 2007


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If you somehow managed to switch off hibernation in Vista, probably by deleting the hiberfil.sys file using Disk Cleanup, here's how to switch it back on.

Press the Windows key and type cmd followed by Ctrl+Shift+Enter to open in administrator mode.
Authenticate as an administrator by clicking continue or entering your administrator password (if UAC is enabled).
In the Command Prompt window, issue the command:

powercfg –h on
Close the Command Prompt window and restart.

Of course you can switch hibernation back off again by changing on to off in the above command.

Repair Vista's Icons

November 8, 2007


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Yesterday my icons in Vista became all messed up. In versions of Windows previous to Vista, I'm used to using the "repair" feature in Tweak UI to repair icons. Microsoft has not released a version of PowerToys for Vista, not yet anyway, of which Tweak UI would be a part of. Well there is really easy fix that does not require any extra software.

Right-click the desktop and select...

Personalize -> Window Colour and Appearance -> Open classic appearance properties

Once there switch to "Windows Classic" and then back to "Windows Aero".

De-shelf Leopard's Dock

November 2, 2007


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The Finder in 10.5 feels "snappier" than it did in 10.4 except for one thing—the Dock in the bottom position. I guess it is slowed down by the reflections seen in the shelf. If you move the dock to either side the shelf disappears, replaced by a neat looking dark translucent background with a light grey border. To enable this same appearance in the bottom position, enter the following into Terminal:

defaults write com.apple.dock no-glass -boolean yes

And then restart the dock using:

killall Dock

The behaviour is reversed by changing yes to no in the first command and then restarting the dock.

10.4 Command Line Hacks in 10.5

October 30, 2007


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Here are a few of the command line hacks that I used in Mac OS 10.4 that still work in 10.5. In all cases the behaviour can be reversed by changing either yes or true to no or false respectively, or vice versa. Note that these commands are all one line.

To stop the .DS_Store pollution on network shares:

defaults write com.apple.desktopservices DSDontWriteNetworkStores true
To disable Dashboard:

defaults write com.apple.dashboard mcx-disabled -boolean yes

And then restart the dock:

killall Dock
To make the dock icons of hidden applications appear as transparent:

defaults write com.apple.Dock showhidden -boolean yes

And then restart the dock:

killall Dock

Note that this does not apply to already hidden applications, you've got to hide them again. This dimming also applies to the indicator lights in the dock.