Notes on Windows box
God Mode
To activate God Mode, right-click the desktop and select New>Folder. Highlight this folder, press F2 and name it:
GodMode.{ED7BA470-8E54-465E-825C-99712043E01C}
Broken clock
Windows defaults to local time instead of UTC; to use UTC,
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Control\TimeZoneInformation]
"RealTimeIsUniversal"=dword:00000001
Really old windows notes
Winamp 2.95 is also still good. I still have a little code snippet for controlling it from a Hauppauge remote.