Okay so, I've had this virus thing that took down my system for a bit. Got it out of the system but it seems it's rootkit messed up my Filesystems. :s little while later the thing was getting unworkable even as the home networks print server, so it got formatted several times, I had to reOEM my XP disc with nLite to get SP2 without the update.sys that pulls the kernel down on my Prescott P4 that wasn't installed when I set XP up last time.

 

Anyway, I've set up the whole system as close to Vista as you are likely to get... Well no Sidebar as yet but that's do-able. I've got the Live bug and made myself a Live Space... as you can see... and got the Live Messenger and the Live Desktop Search... Well it's better than GDS but not quite Coppernic is my feeling so far. If I can hook in to IFilter searches with APIs in my own programs that will be pretty groovie though, it will also be interesting to see what I can do as far as Workgroup shares.