Yes, I decided to do precisely that about three weeks ago, unless convinced
otherwise -- or at least until SP1 -- preferably SP2.
What GOOD Things does Vista do for you that XP Pro SP2 could NOT ----  
meaning non-trivial fluff, smoke and mirrors things -- i.e., substantive

sndvol32.exe opens the playback volume control. What exe opens the recording
control?
xp pro sp2
Tks,

I need to record the telephone input. I have Windows XP Professional, a
data/fax modem and the telephone line connected so I can send faxes. I want
to record a telephone call to a file. Is this possible? How?

We have two XP computers here.  On one, the contents of the My Network
Places folder remains constant and on the other it keeps losing the ones
that haven't been used in a while.  We really want the constant behavior.
What's the trick to it?

Where do I go to associate a particular icon file with a particular file
type (a non-standard one, if it matters)?
   TIA
       Norm

Have you actually given the acid test to that proposed solution by restoring
several image backups of Vista Ultimate from the DVD or External Hard
Drive -- with all the new Anti-Pirate protection on Vista -- to your
computer and done it successfully, several times?

I am terrified I am doing this wrong. Apologies if I am. :p I'm a noob.
Silly question. I'm trying to get windows to ACTUALLY save my folder viewing
preference things. I know how to change them, and I've clicked and unclicked
the little checkbox that says it will do this, but it ...

When I open IE7 the new window opens with the left bottom of the frame in
the left bottom of the screen and I always want to move it more towards the
middle. Can I change the Registry to force new windows to open it in the
middle of the screen instead?

I hoped to receive an answer to my query of 20/11/05, copied below, by now

I am running Windows XP Home.  I've had to do a system recovery using
the disk that came with the computer.  Before this happened I could
right click on the desk top and choose to hide the desktop icons.  
Since the recovery I don't see this option when I right click the disk

I'm on a XP Pro SP2 box.When I use a Regsvr32 ( the command-line tool that
registers dynamic-link libraries (dlls) and ActiveX controls in the
registry) instead of registering I get the open with dialogue box, i.e.
"Choose program you want to open this file".  I ran SFC to ...

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When I first boot my computer, how can I change the order in which my
programs start up?  For Instance, my anti-virus program starts last which
leaves me open for attack while the others are loading.

Is it possible to have fonts on start menu and all subsequent extended menus
in italics or a colour other than than the default?
I

Would anyone have information as to controlling the sizes of the icons/text
in the status bar?  In particular the System Tray and QuickLaunch.  Those
two seem to be separate from anything you can do in System; Display tools.
I have eyesight problems, so I adjusted the standard ...