Managed to hide sleep button in login window

by changing some setting somewhere (getting old, it's a senior moment!). Can't find the setting using help -- anybody got a better memory than me? Thanks!

good memory jogger... Cocktail was how I did it, and how I undid it! Looking at the plist showed that I show time and date on my login window which reminded me how I got that going! Thanks for the hint!

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Last edited by LordChaos73 (2015-06-08 14:33:09)

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Thanks for the responce.
I realize that I need to chown some user specific folderes and files. I also did that on my current system.
Nevertheless...some thinges are still not working properly. I belive im not quite there yet.
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xxxx= some folder do share.
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Linux has read/write to HFS+ if not journaled..!!
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I would like to know if
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you
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http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd348478(WS.10).aspx
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2)
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3a) Go on windows add-remove
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I downloaded some security updates, and since restarting my computer as required, I have never been able to start it up since. It gets stuck on the "starting login window" screen, with the little blue bar still shimmering and mouse still moving, but just won't ever load the login screen, even after hours.
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source
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http://support.apple.com/kb/ht3964
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