Apple Mail losing all state

Seen this scenario a couple of times:

1. Mac crashes
2. Reboot and when Mail starts up, it's lost all of it's state and wants me to re-enter all my accounts information.

Fortunately, all my email is in IMap, so it's just a matter of restoring Mail's state about my IMap accounts. This is done by shutting down Mail, replacing ~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.mail.plist with a good copy from a backup.

Mapping control-click to right click in Windows VM on a Mac host

Problem: emulating a right click/control click in a Windows VM on a Mac host with Mac's one-button trackpad.

Quick work around: You can put two fingers on trackpad and click to simulate right click.

Cleaner solution as suggested by Muffin Research Labs is to use AutoHotKey to enable use of control-click to emulate right-click:

1. Download and install AutoHotKey.
2. Right click on contrl-left-remap.ahk and save to Windows VM.
3. Double click on contrl-left-remap.ahk, while it will appear nothing happens you should now be able to control-click on things and Windows should behave like you right-clicked (e.g. you'll get the context menu if you click on a file).
4. To have this persist past a reboot, copy contrl-left-remap.ahk to C:/Program Files/All Users/Start Menu/Programs/Startup