Hunting for something quite specific in the registry which may or may not be there turns out to be really boring, really annoying and an excellent snapshot of my life…

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As a side note, the new sidebar on the left is of my own construction thanks to something called Samurize. This allows you to add all sorts of “meters” which can measure pretty much whatever you like on the machine. Quite fun, quite sad and actually really handy. I have managed to replicate in a much nicer form the features I was using in the Vista sidebar plus a few extra ones.

To give you an idea of how powerful a tool this is, that clock in the top left was made from scratch, as was the CPU core meter.

The volume and notepad are still sidebar gadgets and the volume replication is what is driving me mad. Ah well, another day perhaps.

Anyway, if you are one of these people like me who like to know exactly what is going on with your machine at any point this is a very worthwhile tool.