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I like Iconoid — seems to work with both 32- and 64-bit Win7 Home Premium for me. Uses a right-click menu to memorize and restore icon positions.

Re: Resetting the PC system clock (9/23/10).

As a retired employee of the NIST Boulder Laboratories, I have to respond to the statement that ‘the NIST timing signal originates with the U.S. Naval Observatory’s U.S. Master Clock.’
I asked a long-time NIST colleague, Dr. Judah Levine, who is the person in charge of operating the NIST Internet Time system, to comment on the NIST system:

Dr. Levine’s reply:

“First, there is a NIST-operated server at Microsoft. It is time-nw.nist.gov. However, we do not operate the time.windows.com system, and I, too, have noticed problems with it.

“Second, the time reference for all NIST services is an ensemble of atomic clocks located at the NIST facility in Boulder, Colorado, not at the USNO.

“Third, the accuracy of a network-based time service is usually limited by the stability of the network delay, and so it depends on the details of your network connection. It is possible to realize an accuracy of a few microseconds, but most users will not be able to do that well. An acccuracy on the order of milliseconds (0.00x seconds) is more common.

“Fourth, the clocks of most PCs are relatively poor time-keepers, and it is difficult to keep a PC clock within a few milliseconds of the correct time even if it is set exactly on time to begin with. It is quite common for a typical PC clock to gain or lose a few milliseconds in 1 minute and a few seconds in 1 day.”

From Collier:

More information about the NIST Internet Time Service is at http://www.nist.gov/physlab/div847/grp40/its.cfm .

If you need time more accurate than a few parts per thousand, don’t rely on your PC to provide it. NIST offers other solutions and services — see http://www.nist.gov/physlab/div847/grp40/index.cfm for details.

(N.B.: I am informed that an upcoming reorganization, after the beginning of the next fiscal year, will likely change these organization names and numbers, and eventually the changes will be propagated to the website URLs.)

“Restart” button acts the same as the initial startup. Same error msg.

No iPhone present, no Skype. I do use VOIP for the main phone line, using Comcast for it and as my ISP. But that arrangement is over a year old, with no problem.

Thx for reminding me about the email.

That is, no new add-ons or extensions in FF. I did use some in Chrome.

No new add-ons or extensions.
I scan incoming traffic constantly (AVG9, latest Comodo Firewall) and do a weekly scan with Spybot-S&D.
IE8 runs fine.
A couple of months ago I had trouble with a different application that would not run; problem was traced (after a year! of on and off work by the app’s developers) to a missing Trebuchet font file, and when that file was re-installed, the app worked fine. That is why I ran the routine, to see if any other Win/Vista files were bad.

RE: A mouse problem: cursor moves by itself

Another possibility (for non-portable PCs): a faulty or failing keyboard. Since the mouse has to be left-clicked in a new position to actually move the typing cursor to a new spot, a dirty mouse alone doesn’t explain the phenomenon. But a faulty/failing keyboard can move the typing cursor without manual input. Arrow keys, space bar, tab key, maybe any of these are outputting a spurious signal. Swap out the keyboard and see if the problem goes away.

Of course, if this is a portable, then the touchpad is a more likely candidate.

I have been using Search Everything v. 1.2.1.371 for months now on a Vista Home Premium system, and am completely satisfied. I find it way faster than the Search built into Vista, and also more thorough.