Recently, I messed up a set of VHD files that were based upon differencing disks. Basically, I killed the parent drive - so, any child drives are useless. So, how do you know which drives are differencing disks and what is their parent? One way...
Here's a nice site that helps us Vista folk out on identifying which services are really needed, can be delayed start, or even disabled. General Service information too. While I Hibernate most of the time (shutdown -h) there are those times I need...
What's up with the huge update? Turns out the biggest is Office 2007 SP1 at 390 Meg... I'm guessing the Vista SP1 will be 3 Gig at this rate...