dude this is gold, some of the stuff i've heard of, most not however...
(and some stuff i was like "duh why didn't i think of that")

i vote for having it pinned, along with the inevitable vista guide too.

i have had problems disabling the 'system restore' before.
as in i turned it off for all drives, and now i have 2 entries
for each of my drives in the list, one of it on, one off...
never thought of disabling the service, got to try that...

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