INFORMATICS

Sticky Notes is built into Windows 7 and Windows 8.1.

The program allows you to save notes comments that show up in the form of notes on your computer desktop. You can change the size and color of sticky notes.

The tablet typing Sticky Notes support pen and touch input.

Thunderbird auto update

You can enable or disable automatic updates in Thunderbird with these steps.

• Select the Menu - Tools button in the upper-right corner, then choose “Options“.
• Select “Advanced“.
• Choose the “Update” tab.

• Select on of the following options as desired:
  • Automatically install updates (recommended: improved security)
  • Check for updates, but let me choose whether to install them
  • Never check for updates (not recommended: security risk)

From about:config Menu

1. Type “about:config” in the address bar, then press “Enter“.
2. Search for the “app.update.auto” setting.
3. Double-click the “app.update.auto” option to toggle the setting. If set to “true“, automatic updates are enabled. If set to “false“, automatic updates are disabled.

4. app.update.auto - false

   app.update.enabled - false

   app.update.silent - false

Via prefs.js file

1. Close Thunderbird.
2. Navigate to the following location based on your operating system.
   • Windows XP/Vista/7/8 – “%APPDATA%\Mozilla\“
   • Windows Server 2008 2012 Roaming Profiles c:\Users\........\AppData\Roaming\Thunderbird\Profiles\........default\
   • Unix/Linux – “~/.mozilla/“
   • Mac OS X – “~/Library/Mozilla/” or “~/Library/Application Support/“
3. Open the “Profiles” folder.
4. Open the folder that represents the profile - “.default”.
5. Open the prefs.js file with a text editor - Notepad.
6. Look for a line that contains “app.update.enabled”. If it doesn’t exist, add a line for it in the file and set it as desired using these examples:
   • user_pref(“app.update.enabled”, true); = Automatic updates enabled
   • user_pref(“app.update.enabled”, false); = Automatic updates disabled
7. Add line:    // turn off application updates:
   user_pref("app.update.enabled", false);
8. Start thunderbird
9. Check Advanced - Updates.