I just had to troubleshoot a small problem in my Windows 7 installation, one that had been driving me bonkers. You see, for some reason, Whenever I pinned iTunes to my Start menu, it would show up on the list as “iTunes (2).” This would make sense if there were another iTunes shortcut (or any file named “iTunes”) pinned to the Start menu, but there wasn’t. I tried simply renaming the file, and while it would “let” me do it, it just changed the filename back to “iTunes (2)” when I hit Return. The obvious answer was that there was another file with the same name in the folder where this link was stored. But, where was this file stored?
The exciting conclusion follows, after a word from our sponsors…
Continue reading Phantom Pinned Files in Windows 7
Have you ever seen those really cool pumpkin carvings that look like photographs? Yeah, me too. I wondered to myself, aloud, while alone in my office, “How do they do that?” It came to me that, of course, they must first start with a photograph. I reasoned from there that, naturally, they must convert the photo into a two tone image, as the pumpkin carving will be composed of only two “colors” (either pumpkin or not pumpkin). Well, from there, I knew just what to do. Read on, and so will you!