If you’ve done any programming work in Vista using Visual Studio 2005, you’ve probably already run into a problem where you opened a solution that requires VS to be in administrator mode in order to load the project. This especially happens for projects that require IIS access.

There’s a simple solution to this issue, just change the compability for vslauncher.exe to run as administrator. Nice and easy… hit the link for the details.

Double-clicking a VS2005 Solution in Vista

This is the first actually useful gadget I’ve seen for the Vista Sidebar, with the possible exception of the Weather gadget… it does the very simple job of putting your Pidgin buddy list into the sidebar.

Hit the link for the full explanation of how to install and use it.

Put Your Pidgin Buddy List into the Windows Vista Sidebar :: the How-To Geek