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How To – Remove “Nearby Printers” as an option

In an enterprise situation, for example a University, this is a pretty big deal. If a student selects one of the “Nearby Printers” rather than the default, it will bypass the Pharos print server (which...

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Fix – Can’t remove all icons from the dock in Lion

Removing dock icons is one of the first steps to managing Macs in a lab where you want all the computers to have the same appearance. However, in Mac OS X Lion no matter what you do some of the icons...

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Fix – The system was unable to unlock your login keychain

This alert will appear once per new-user login, so if you’ve created a custom user template and forgot to delete the login keychain, it will popup each time a new user logs in. FIX: 1) Log in to your...

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Fix – Can’t install plugins/add-ons after CS6 installation via AAMEE

When you install CS6 using AAMEE, updates are disabled by default. If you feel the need to update anything in any of the Adobe applications, you’ll have to open AAMEE and create an update package...

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Fix – CS6 still prompting for serial & authentication

With the previous Adobe Creative Suite software versions, once you input the serial number and Adobe ID credentials it asks for in the beginning, you could deploy the image out to the labs with no...

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Fix – Application window(s) automatically open at every login

This is caused by copying certain plist files, or in some cases the entire English.lproj folder over to the User Template without closing all open windows first. Unless something is done about it, the...

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Fix – (ARD) A newer version of this software already exists on this disk

This fix is intended for those who don’t yet have access to the latest Apple Remote Desktop installer. When installing Apple Remote Desktop (ARD) from an old dmg file, you’re actually dealing with two...

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Fix – Stuck at spinning wheel during startup

I nearly had a heart attack when this happened to me. I was making configurations on our file server (didn’t know what I was doing at the time), and after rebooting I came across this “spinning wheel...

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Fix – (Disk Utility) Couldn’t unmount disk

I came across this problem while trying to erase a partition on one of our file servers. After an hour or so of intense frustration, I came up with two ways to fix this.. FIX#1: – If the affected...

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Fix – (Flash CS6) AIR SDK version 3.4 is missing

This error came after installing CS6 on the lab computers manually (one-by-one). Usually if you’re in a local account like “admin” the error should fix itself the first time around, but when you’re...

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