permently disable autorun.inf

add this registry key, just pop it in a .reg file and run or manually use regedit.

REGEDIT4
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\IniFileMapping\Autorun.inf]
@="@SYS:DoesNotExist"

visual studio 2005 Rock scroll

http://www.hanselman.com/blog/IntroducingRockScroll.aspx

nifty addon, very useful.

Visual Studio 2005 MultiCore compiling

Projects Properties->Configuration Properties->C-C++->Command Line

add "/MP" to Additional options box

Visual Studio compiles c++ files in multi core