If you are a Google Desktop and Launchy user like me, you’ll know that the Win+Space hotkey doesn’t work in Launchy if Google Desktop is installed — even if the GD hotkeys are “disabled”.

Well, here’s the answer.  You’ll have to hack the registry, but it works good.  Here’s the gist.

1. Exit Google Desktop
2. Add this a “hot_key_flags” DWORD in HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Google\Google Desktop\Preferences
3. Set the value to “0″ to disable all hotkeys.
4. I rebooted afterward, but restarting GD may enable it.

OK, so I have PDFs of several receipts that I need to fax into my health insurance company for flexible spending reimbursement.  The Windows Fax “printer” doesn’t allow me to string together multiple files, so I’m in a pickle.

I don’t have Adobe Acrobat, so I start Googling with “(combine|merge) (pdf|pdfs) -mac -apple -purchase -demo -trial -shareware -acrobat”

I find pdfsam, download & install it, add my PDFs, set the output file, click Run and, bam, a merged PDF.  Sweet.

I tried another option as well — pdftk.  If you’d rather go the commandline route, this’ll work just as good.

Have you ever had a program show in the taskbar as running, but not show anywhere on the screen? (I’ve only had it happen in a dual-screen environment, but I suppose it could happen with a single screen.)

Anyway. Alt-Space is your friend.

Hit Alt-space, choose Move and then use the arrow keys to move the window back to the visible screen.

If you are like me and often have a lot of apps open in Windows, here’s an easy way to get more room in your taskbar. If you’re wondering why my taskbar is dark gray, I’m using the Zune theme for Windows XP.

®= right-click, © = click, © © = double-click

1. ® on an empty place on the taskbar, © Properties

2. © Customize next to the “Hide inactive icons” checkbox

3. Note the Behavior column

4. Next to each “Hide when inactive” entry change it to “Always Hide”

5. © OK twice and you’re done. Voila. Nice, huh?

I have time tracking worksheet that I use at work. It looks something like this:

Since I don’t work on Saturday or Sunday, I’d like to hide all columns that have a date that’s a Saturday or Sunday.

Here’s a little VB macro that will do the trick:

Sub header()

Dim eCol As Integer
Dim i As Integer

eCol = Cells(1, Columns.Count).End(xlToLeft).Column

For i = 1 To eCol

With Cells(1, i)

If IsDate(.Value) Then
If (Weekday(.Value) = vbSunday) Or _
(Weekday(.Value) = vbSaturday) Then
.EntireColumn.Hidden = True
End If
End If

End With

Next i

End Sub

h/t Rowan