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Google Chrome request UAC at every start, solution

admin — Mon, 10 May 2010 20:32:40 +0000

Suddenly at start of Google Chrome (installed month’s ago) Windows 7 show the request UAC (User Access Control), indicating that this program will try to start with administrator rights. Probably due to update of Chrome or more likely one of his plugin, must have changed some parameters and Windows, rightly, he notice me a possible danger like a virus or trojan. Knowing that the version installed (and reinstalled for safety) is healthy, I tried a quick workaround. First I found the executable, which usually is not in the classic c:\Program Files but under your user account:

C:\Users\YOURUSERNAME\AppData\Local\Google\Chrome\Application\chrome.exe

So “classic” right click chrome.exe property. From the screen that comes out press on compatibility and then at the bottom you will find the button “change settings for all users“.
A new window appears, after all, de-select option “start this program as administrator“.
Give OK to close all windows, and the problem is finally solved.

WordPress: meet Press This

admin — Sat, 13 Mar 2010 20:52:07 +0000

WordPress is full of features and sometimes not fully known to the main public. Today we discover “Press This” a practical tool that provides quick access to creating a new article, while you are surfing through our browser, and pre-fill most of the fields of “New Post” in WordPress.

First, go in the administration under Tools - Tools. Find at bottom the link you’re going to drag (drag and drop) on your bookmark toolbar (tested under Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox and Google Chrome). Now when you navigate on the net, you can start writing an article very quickly. Just select some text on source page, and press the button on the bookmark. Will open a new blog window with several pre-built camps.

If you need, you can create a custom button for bookmark with special needs. The call uses these parameters = http://myblog.com/wp-admin/press-this.php?u=&t=&s=

u = the url of the current page in browser
t = the title of the current page in browser
s = the selected text on the page
i = url of an image file if present

Google Chrome permanently pin tabs

admin — Mon, 21 Dec 2009 21:44:09 +0000

With version 4 of Google Chrome browser has added a feature that is rather interesting called pin tab. Essentially a tab is iconified as recently seen in videos from Google ChromeOS. This feature is interesting if you want to leave some tabs dormant, such as Gmail. To do so, right-click with your mouse over a tab, and then choose”Pin Tab“.

Unfortunately at the time of writing, the beta version 4.0.249, after you close your browser, reopening the tab fixed there is no trace.

To overcome this problem, make a small change to the link that launches the browser. For example, the Google Chrome on the desktop, just right-click with your mouse, then click Properties. Now in text form called target (ie, the first from top) should look like this:
C: \Users\user\AppData\Local\Google\Chrome\Application\chrome.exe

You just need to add the parameter --pinned-tab-count=x where x is the number of tabs that you want to be fixed at each new opening of browser, followed by the url separated by a single space.

For example if you want to open gmail and reader Add at the end of chrome.exe
--Pinned-tab-count=2 https://mail.google.com/mail http://www.google.com/reader/view/

Launch your browser made in Google, and you have the tabs iconificate permeate.

psapi.dll random crash

admin — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 13:58:01 +0000

On home pc i’ve changed (from Windows update) the internet explorer version 7 from default one (version 6.x). The installation seems working fine but sometimes browser go in crash, especially when i open “options” menu.
Crash windows report problem to PSAPI.dll.

The problem born from a duplicate dll, and different to original one, an made Windows is in trouble. To solve this situation simply

open Start -> search psapi.dll on entire computer.
Rename all psapi.dll in psapi.dll-old except for file located inside C:\Windows\Systems32 directory.
Restart your computer.