Almost anyone who has applied Windows Updates during their day has been annoyed by this issue. Once Windows finishes its update, it asks you to reboot. You click "later". Ten minutes later, a window pops up asking you to reboot again. If you're unfortunate enough to be in the middle of typing, this can actually trigger the "Reboot" button (the default is this button, so simply pressing the space bar while that window is in focus will do it) effectively losing whatever you've been working on. There's a solution for this issue, which is that the length of time Windows waits before hassling you again is configurable. Colin Mackay has the details.

Chris Pratley is they guy that is in charge of OneNote at Microsoft, so when he talks about OneNote features, we listen. Today he's got a
You really have to see this to believe it. Some poor soul has decided to try to amalgamate the
latest version of every known software driver onto one CD for the purposes of creating an unattended Windows XP setup
disk that would work on literally any PC. And it looks like he's
Windows XP has a stupendously aggravating behavior when first installed when it comes to searching files.
For some reason, out of the box Windows XP only searches files that match a certain set of file extensions. While for
many people that set is enough, it can drive you crazy to do a search for a file that you know exists based on the
contents in the file, and get no results. 





