Yep, that's it, I just installed Vista Beta 2 and Office 12 on my laptop. The installation went alright, I just cannot get the transparence effects on the desktop (ATI 9000 only...)

All in all it certainly looks better than XP, but will I be more productive? we'll see...

Outlook 12 already crashed a couple of times.

Thanks to Anders for providing the Beta stuff. Cheers. MV.

Okay, there are so many RSS clients available, here are just a couple of suggestions that you may find useful:

A "very best of" type of list:

 

General:

 

Tweak UI: http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/downloads/powertoys/xppowertoys.mspx

Autoruns, process explorer, regmon and filemon: www.sysinternals.com

Support Tools for XP SP2: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=49AE8576-9BB9-4126-9761-BA8011FABF38&displaylang=en

 

Office:

 

Outlook Tools 2.8: www.schultz-it.de/en

Paperless Printer, a powerful file converter: www.rarefind.com

Office Password Recovery: www.freewordexcelpassword.com

 

PDF Tools:

 

PDF Compressor: www.nicepdf.com/products.html

PDF Converter: www.go2pdf.com

PDF-Analyzer 2.5: www.pdf-analyzer.com

PDF Watermark Creator 1.0: www.coolpdf.com/pdfwatermark.html

Tweak PDF 1.33: www.coolpdf.com/tweakpdf.html

 

Internet:

 

Festoon: Desktop Sharing via Skype: www.festooninc.com/download.html

Jybe: Collaborate in your browser! www.jybe.com

Adblock: blocks ADs in firefox adblock.mozdev.org

Google earth Hacks: www.googleearthhacks.com

Noscript for FireFox: www.noscript.net

 

Photgraphy and Graphism:

 

Photoshop Filters: www.photoshop-filters.com

Harry's Filters 3.0: www.thepluginsite.com

 

Audio:

 

ML iPOD: allows to copy music on your iPOD without iTunes: www.mlipod.com

SQR Soft Crossfading Output v 1.75: creates transition between your tunes: www.sqrsoft.com

 

Video:

 

Rat DVD: www.ratdvd-france.com

 

CD and DVD:

 

Easy ISO Creator: www.paehl.de

ISO Recorder 2: isorecorder.alexfeinman.com

Virtual Clone Dive: www.elby.de

MP3 Pro for Nero: www.nero.com

 

 

 

Ever dreamed of installing XP without the uneeded junk? Automated install, inserting drivers and fixes... you name it, they did it!

Check out this tool:

Thanks to Thierry for this nice information.

Enjoy