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A priceless screenshot of an error message taken from Windows Vista. Hat tip: Duncan Riley.

These Programs are causing Windows to Start Slowly:

Host Process for Windows Service (svchost.exe)
Windows Explorer (explorer.exe)
Microsoft Software Licensing Service (SLsvc.exe)

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If you don’t know what that does, then brace yourself. It is a symbolic link, a tool that we have had in Linux and Unix for some time but that is sadly lacking in Windows. The Windows Vista blog is reporting, though, that the next version of Windows will come with symbolic link [...]

Windows Vista Sidebar available as a hack for XP users. Nice but not overly useful.
Tech-Recipes – Install the Vista / Longhorn Sidebar into XP
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Written by Aaron Brazell on October 18, 2005

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It may surprise some of you that I am coming out in defense of Microsoft. Well, more accurately, I’m taking a neutral stance as it pertains to a widely lambasted Monad vulnerability. So many people on one side of the Microsoft vs. the world argument are criticizing Microsoft over supposed viruses and exploits written for [...]

No I am not. But there still are people who do. Yesterday, I was at a forum where computer oriented people gather and one of the members inquired about reinstalling Windows on his laptop. It was obviously an older PC as he claimed it only had a 6 GB hard drive. His concern with installing [...]

In a huge reversal of the plans to not ship another version of IE until Longhorn is released, presumably before 2020, and then to only include it as part of the Longhorn release, Microsoft now has unveiled plans to ship IE7 as a standalone, Windows XP SP2 compliant browser in mid summerof this year.
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