When going to Tools > Macros in Microsoft Word 2004, the following list of macros was displayed:


AddToolbar
DeleteTheFile
Main
popSaveAsDialog
reloadDoc
startMail
startPring


Immediately, we recognized that these were common actions used by third-party applications. We also noticed an Adobe Acrobat toolbar underneath the standard editing toolbar.

Attempting to remove the macros by choosing the “delete” option is impossible since they are created from a template file upon start-up. To successfully remove the macros without removing Adobe Acrobat altogether, perform the following steps:

1. Quit Microsoft Word
2. Open a new Finder window
3. Navigate to your Startup Volume
4. Open the “Applications” folder
5. Open the Microsoft Office 2004 (or X) folder
6. Open the “Office” folder
7. Open the “Startup” folder
8. Open the “Word” folder
9. Delete the “PDFMaker.dot” file
10. Relaunch Microsoft Word

You’ll notice that the Adobe Acrobat toolbar is now gone. If you navigate to Tools > Macros, you’ll also notice that the macros are gone as well.

Hope this helps!

The “Show Desktop” icon points to a small script that toggles the desktop on and off. Luckily, you can create/re-create this script as many times as you’d like using Microsoft’s built-in Notepad application.

First, launch Notepad:
Start > All Programs > Accessories > Notepad

Next, enter the following script:
[Shell]
Command=2
IconFile=explorer.exe,3
[Taskbar]
Command=ToggleDesktop

Then, save the file with the .SCF extension:
File > Save As... > Save As Type: All Files > "Show Desktop.scf"

That’s it! Now you can create as many copies as you’d like of your new script and place them wherever you see fit

Enabling root

The first step in re-indexing your hard drive is to enable the ‘root’ user on your computer. To do so:

1. Launch the “Directory Utility” application from the “Utilities” folder in your “Applications” folder
2. Ensure the “Directory Utility” is “un-locked” by clicking (if needed) on the image of the lock
3. Enter your password
4. Click on ‘Edit’ and select ‘Enable Root User’
5. Enter a new password for ‘root’ do not forget this password and verify
6. Close “Directory Utility”

Entering Terminal

Next, open the “Terminal” application from the “Utilities” folder located inside the “Applications” folder and enter the following commands:

YourName$ su (followed by return key)

The system will prompt you for your root password

Password:

Enter your root password and hit ‘enter’

sh-3.2#

You are now logged in as the root user.

Note: executing commands as root can cause extensive damage to your system. The author nor West LA Computer Services assume any responsibility for any damage caused by following this guide.

If you’re still following along, enter the following command:

sh-3.2# rm -r /.Spotlight-V100/ (followed by return key)

The system quietly returns:

sh-3.2#

And now type:

sh-3.2# exit (followed by return key)

And Terminal will return:

exit
YourName$

Enter:

YourName$ exit (followed by return key)

And the system responds with:

logout [Process completed]

Now quit the application.

Wrapping Up

If Spotlight does not start immediately indexing your drive, you may need to restart your computer.

<a href="http://messenger.yahoo.com/edit/send/?.target=YOUR_YAHOO_ID">
<img border="0" src="http://opi.yahoo.com/yahooonline/u=YOUR_YAHOO_ID/m=g/t=2/l=us/opi.jpg">
</a>
Will return this Yahoo!-provided image:

Playing around with the Yahoo! provided source yields up to 17 different images. Changing the t=2 tag above to t=0 will give you:

Here’s what’s avaialbe (t=0 through t=16):

Yahoo! gives us a pretty good range of options… but what if we want to use a custom image or text? Let’s look at the code again, this time, paying close attention to:

http://opi.yahoo.com/online?u=YOUR_YAHOO_ID&m=a&t=1

Following that link in our browser brings us to what appears to be a status page that simply displays

00

if we’re logged off, and

01

if we’re signed in.

If we play with this URL a bit and change t=1 to t=0, we get the same status page with different output:

YOUR_YAHOO_ID is NOT ONLINE

or

YOUR_YAHOO_ID is ONLINE

For our purposes, less is more. We’ll write a simple PHP script that’ll check our online status and display a corresponding image depending on our online status. The PHP is:

<?php
$getstatus = file_get_contents('http://mail.opi.yahoo.com/online?u=YOUR_YAHOO_ID&m=a&t=1');
switch($getstatus) {
case "00": $status = '<img src="offline.jpg" />';
break;
case "01": $status = '<img src="online.jpg" />';
break;
}
echo $status;
?>

You can define $status however you’d like. Enjoy!