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26Oct/090

How to: Dell Mini 10v Snow Leopard Hackintosh

Dell mini 10v OS XFollow these condensed instructions from Gizmodo to create your Dell Mini 10v Snow Leopard Hackintosh.


What you will need:

  • Dell Mini 10v Netbook with BIOS version A05 or lower.
    BIOS downgrade instructions available at MyDellMini forum.
  • Retail version of Apple Mac OS X 10.6 DVD, ISO or DMG.
    Operating System updates can be applied after installation.
  • A USB flash drive with a capacity of 8gb or greater.  An external USB hard disk drive could be used instead.
  • Access to Apple Mac computer, which will be used to prepare your USB flash drive.
  • Netbook BootMaker software for Mac.

Instructions:

  1. Use Apple Disk Utility to partition the USB drive with a Master Boot Record and then use the restore feature to image the Snow Leopard DVD onto the newly created partition.
  2. Open Netbook Maker and select the USB drive before telling it to prepare the boot drive.
  3. Plug the USB drive into your Dell Mini 10v, boot from USB and install Mac OS X Snow Leopard.
  4. Install the British/UK keyboard layout found at Phil Gyford's website.
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23Aug/090

How to: Remove Intel menu from Windows desktop context menu

All Windows versions: Installing Intel GMA drivers within Windows causes new options to be added to the Windows desktop context menu (right-click menu): Graphics Properties... and Graphics Options.

To remove these infrequently used options, follow the instructions below.

  1. Run regedit.
  2. Navigate to HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Directory\Background\Shellex\ContextMenuHandlers
  3. Delete the key igfxcui
  4. Close the registry editor.

No need to log off.  The results should be instant.

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