Block Instant Preview

If, like me, you hate the instant preview button in google search, then here's the solution for you:

(Instant Preview is the previewing of the website on the right side of the screen which pops up when you click or stop the cursor over the rectangular button immediately to the right of each result.)

Thanks to my friend Roie for coming up with this solution.

Install Stylish for Chrome or Firefox. Use a custom style that works on 'URLs on the domain' of 'google.com'. Set the code to:

.vspiic { background: none !important; }
.vspii { border: none !important; height: 0px !important; }

Enable the style.
That's it. You have now disabled instant previews in Google search both for http or https.

Windows 7 wrong taskbar icon

Glitches happen. When my Taskbar icon for ExceedOnDemand.exe decided to switch to the big blue question mark, I was frustrated. My desktop and Start Menu icons for starting ExceedOnDemand looked good. It was the icon that appears on the taskbar once ExceedOnDemand is open that was wrong. Instead of seeing the usual icon, I was seeing the icon that belongs to "Windows Help & Support".

I'll save you the time of trying to figure this out, and I'll just let you know that it has to do with the pinned settings of the Taskbar and the Start Menu. The folder:

C:\Users\\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Quick Launch\User Pinned

contains Microsoft specific information for determining which applications are pinned to the Taskbar. This folder is the one responsible for showing the wrong icon every time I launched ExceedOnDemand.

I would suggest moving the whole folder (User Pinned) to a back up location. This will restore the proper icons and completely reset the pinned items in your Start Menu and on the Taskbar.

About: Windows 7 Taskbar Icons, Windows 7 Pinned Icons.