October 31, 2007
Race to the front
I hate how both IE and Outlook race to be the first app on top. Why can't they be like Apple's iTunes software and quietly load in the background and not shove itself to the foreground partially loaded. I grow tired of yelling at the apps, "Don't show yourself unless you have something to show."
I also run in a non privileged account. It annoys me when I come across software that needs to run as an admin. Most of the time, I am fine with this arrangement.
My desktop has been cluttered for some time. It really bugged me. On occasion I would try to delete all these shortcuts only to find I didn't have the right permissions.
Yesterday I was determined to delete them. I was about to write an app and run it as an admin when I could not get Explorer to run as an admin. I then went to the Command prompt. Surely something there could help, I thought.
Maybe from Keith Brown's book or just a thought, I typed RUNAS and hit enter. Noticed the example Command prompt runas user, typed the example command, and ran DEL *.lnk in the new window.... success! Desktop is cleaner.
OK, that was really nerdy.
Posted by Michael at October 31, 2007 06:29 AM