I couldn’t do anything with a customer’s USB disk, Windows kept spitting out error 0×80070052. Checkdisk showed no errors. Plenty of space left. I played around with it and discovered the error was caused by too many files in the root directory. Seems the girl didn’t even know how to make a folder. I made subdirs and organized most of her most files for her and the error went away.
Did you know you can create a hard link (aka symbolic link) to a network share in Windows XP? This is undocumented as far as I can tell and was discovered by me on accident. Its very easy.
You now have a symbolic link (NOT a shortcut) which acts as an actual folder on your Desktop. Its almost like it was “mounted.” Go ahead and move it if you wish. The only way this works is when dragging out of My Network Places.
I was disappointed when the display on my new computer with a fresh copy of Vista (not 64bit) looked like a light bulb burned out. A quick google revealed the fix:
Under the Catalyst Control Center, under Colors, if you scroll down there is an option for Black and White Levels. On Vista64, this option is most likely set to PC Standard. Setting it to Microsoft MCE standard will restore the brightness of colors.
Credit goes to this guy: http://www.vistareadygames.com/showthread.php?t=42530