I’d like to also give a shout out to Tim regarding the recent Windows Server 2008 post. He has been the canary in the coal mine for running 2k8×64 as a primary development workstation. He’s also getting married soon.

Also on that subject here’s a quick note about an issue you may experience running as a user instead of an administrator. I was having a very difficult time turning on a few user-interface options like showing window contents while resizing. I could enter an administrator password and change the setting just fine but it never seemed to take. Turns out the setting must be per-user and I must have been changing the option for the administrator account because of the impersonation.

The workaround is to make your normal user account a member of the administrators group temporarily, then use it for credentials when prompted to make the change, then remove yourself from the administrators group again.