I hate the little arrow links that take you to the iTunes store. I could disable them in iTunes 7, but now apple seems to think I should choose between locking myself from the iTunes Music Store and seeting those anoying things. If it weren’t for the automatic cover downloader, i’d do that in a heartbeat, but it is really useful. I found a bunch of articles about how to do this on a Mac, but I am not running a mac. I ended up finding this article on how to remove the links and I also found one on the same site that gets rid of the genre column from the browser. Why on earth did Apple remove these settings? This is why over-simplifying UI can be a bad choice in my opinion.
In case the original article dissappears, here are the basic steps:
Open %AppData%\Apple Computer\iTunes\iTunesPrefs.xml in a proper text editor, the article’s author recomends Notepad++ then right underneath. Note: the
<keyUser Preferences</key><dict>
add
<key>show-store-arrow-links</key> <data> AA== </data>
and/or
<key>show-genre-when-browsing</key><data>AA==</data>
Entertaining and informative post! I was looking around on the web for a post about this and this is the first great 1 I have read.