Uninstalling KB950126 appears to have resolved my screensaver quirkiness explained in yesterday’s post.  The system had also come up, but for some odd reason it did not connect to the network.  Another reboot solved that issue.

I also decided to install Vista Ultimate on my primary PC yesterday.  I had to do a reinstall anyway considering a rootkit somehow found its way on my system.  I had removed this thing a coupe of times before in the past, but I couldn’t get rid of this release.  It was the same one based on srosa.sys/hidr.exe/wintems.exe, but it had replicated much more than I had seen before.

I’m much more receptive to Vista this time around and so far it’s been a welcomed change.  I’m a little more familiar with it since I’ve been running my HTPCs on it for more than a year.  It also seems to support the common applications I use this go ’round.  We’ll see if it stays…