InPrivate mode is a special mode of IE 8 where it does not save Cookies, Passwords, Browsing History, URLS typed into the search field or Temporary Internet files.
You can start Internet Explorer easily in “inPrivate” Mode when Internet Explorer is open by clicking on Safety – InPrivate Browsing from the tools menu.
You can also fire up InPrivate mode without the hassle of first opening up a “normal” IE Window by creating a new shortcut with the following location, “C:\Program Files\Internet Explorer\iexplore.exe” -private and then using that shortcut to run IE.
To do this right click on your desktop and select New -> Shortcut. In the location button type in “C:\Program Files\Internet Explorer\iexplore.exe” -private as shown below.
Now give it a name so you can distinguish it better and click Finish.
Google only distributes google sketchup as an exe file which is not assignable through Active Directory Group Policy. This exe is only a wrapper for the msi file though and this msi is able to be assigned to computers.
To get the msi file double-click on the GoogleSketchUpWEN.exe downloaded and when its at the “Welcome to the google sketchup 7 setup wizard” open windows explorer and goto the folder:
Under Vista: C:\Users\User\Local Settings\temp\
Under WinXP: C:\documents and settings\User\Local Settings\Temp\
and look for a folder that looks like 7zS4211.tmp, This folder was named differently on the machines I tried but it always started with “7z” and ended in “.tmp”.
Within that folder is “GoogleSketchUp7.msi” and a “setup.exe” which can now be assigned to your computers using the Active Directory Group Policy Software Installation settings or installed using a command line to machines individually using a login script.
Technically this can be use used to have any program open up a file it can understand when its run. But you would generally associate a file extension with a particular program and just double click on the file itself.
The reason I’m using this method for MYOB is that sometimes when MYOB gets upgraded and you try and re-associate the myo extension with the new program windows does not actually do it and continues to try and open the files with the lower version of MYOB. I suspect this has something to do with the program itself having the same name just with a different path but I’ve not troubleshooted it as the below works around the problem easy enough.
All you need to do is create a new shortcut to the MYOB executable (or edit the one on your desktop) and then place the full path to the *.myo file after it in the target field.
As shown below the path to the command would be c:\Premier12\Myobp.exe “C:\Your Path\Company File.myo”
Click Ok and now you can just double click on your shortcut and have the correct version of MYOB open up the datafile.
Internet, Software | Wayne | 
July 28, 2009 7:20 am | 
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