Disable the remote control, menu.

Maybe a dumb question but I can't seem to find a way to disable the menu that comes up from the remote control. It seems to jump up once in a while and I never use it and would just like to disable it.
Thanks
Stein

Yes, I didn't realize that's what it's called.
I use an application called synergy http://synergy2.sourceforge.net/ to share the mouse and keyboard with a windose machine, a linux box and this mac. It is a really nice way to stay somewhat OS agnostic, it also shares the clipboard with the various machines. I really like the app. However, this nagging problem happens occasionally where Front Row will just randomly pop up and I can't get back out of it. So all I can do is reboot. I'm not sure what causes it, although I'm fairly sure it has something to do with synergy. I did not know there was an easy way to disable the remote, so I've done that now and maybe it will make a difference. But is there a way to just completely disable, uninstall Front Row?
Thanks
Stein

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Sorry - I made an assumption that you were not able to go fro a track to the title menu... what you are asking is to go from a menu to the title menu by using the ;menu' key.
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Sadly Snow Leopard was the last OS X to have Front Row and it is no longer offered in Lion or Mountain.
see > Farewell Front Row | Macworld
If you want, you can get it back with some tweaking.
see > Get Front Row for Mac OS X 10.7 Lion
or > Use Front Row In OS X Lion
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I know this is "Why would anyone want to do this" question but we are having conflicting issues in one of our labs between NetSupport and Zenworks when trying to run Adobe Flash. NetSupport is a tool that quite a few of our lab teachers use, it gives them the ability to see all of there students screens, take control of them, and a few other features, all from a console that runs on the teacher machine.
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You can configure this in the ZCC for which components you want
installed. You can deselect Remote Management.
Note: You can also disable or remove the Mirror Driver from the Devices
Control Panel under Display Drivers and it will not come back.
On 1/13/2012 2:36 PM, mshicks wrote:
>
> I know this is "Why would anyone want to do this" question but we are
> having conflicting issues in one of our labs between NetSupport and
> Zenworks when trying to run Adobe Flash. NetSupport is a tool that quite
> a few of our lab teachers use, it gives them the ability to see all of
> there students screens, take control of them, and a few other features,
> all from a console that runs on the teacher machine.
>
> The problem comes in when running Flash if the student tries to create
> a text box and scroll inside of it then the computer crashes. We
> contacted NetSupport for help with this and they had us run a reporting
> tool that looked at the hardware setup and driver information. Then they
> setup a test machine and tried to replicate the problem and they were
> not able to. However they tech did note that in the scan of the machine
> there could be a conflicting issue between NetSupports Mirror Driver and
> DemoForge TightVNC Mirror Driver. I assumed the latter was part of
> Zenworks remote management. So we stopped the remote management service
> on a machine and tried to replicate the problem. We did not encounter
> the problem so we turned the remote management service back on and sure
> enough as soon as we tried to replicate the problem again the machine
> crashed.
>
> Now when we tried to disable the remote management service in the
> services menu but it will not stay disable as soon as the machine
> restarts the remote management service is running and its set to
> automatic again.
>
> Is there anyway to disable (preferable) or remove just the remote
> management piece with out removing the rest of the client from the
> machines?
>
> Thanks,
> Mike
>
>
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Is it ever ok to entirely disable the remote Title button?

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Hi,
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Message was edited by: Winston Churchill: Having seen the site for the first time I realise I need to do some work on the formatting-I'll put this right in due course, just looking for comments on content for now.

Alley_Cat wrote:
1 - Looks exhaustive!
It was actually, I didn't think I'd need to do quite so much checking that things did what it says.
2 - Having result on the left initially confused me, I think I'd find Action>Result better than Result < Action.</div>
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Jolly Giant wrote:
maybe a slightly larger font ...
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