The start menu button/taskbar is on the bottom by default because buggy apps assume 0x0 is the top/left of the screen (workarea), see http://blogs.msdn.com/b/oldnewthing/archive/2003/09/12/54896.aspx

To dump the SAM hashes from a live system, you need debug priv (admin) and inject a dll or some code into a key windows process, if anything goes wrong and the process dies, windows BSoD's to protect itself

3GB is max, not 2GB (You must turn this setting on, and only apps that have a flag set in their header will actually get it)

wtf?

just do: ShellExecute(0,0,"http://urlgoeshere.com",0,0,SW_SHOW);

CIH only nuked the motherboard and destroyed your master boot record one day of the yeah (april?) so it still spread pretty good. Only works on Win9x, not NT so its pretty rare these days

mininova is not a tracker, search only, don't know about the others

I not only run steam games as non admin, I installed steam and the games (HL2 & CS:S) as non admin (after giving steam installer write access to HKLM\...\Uninstall\Steam) on XP (Did not install in ProgramFiles folder, but X:\Games or whatever)

If you need to run some shitty ass Active X control that does not support DEP/NX

Sony has several models with mpeg4 support
http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2055218841
http://www.rikstv.no/Hva-trenger-du/Digital-mottaker/Godkjente-mottakere2/Flatskjerm-med-innebygd-mottaker-IDTV/