If you’ve dabbled with Windows Vista, you have probably noticed that the drive icons in 'My Computer' accompany a visual representation of the drive’s capacity. This bar chart type gauge shows the amount free and used space on the disk, allowing you to see at a glance the amount of space that you have available on your drive. In Windows XP, you have to select the drive and hover your mouse pointer over the icon to get that information in a text based format. While this procedure really isn’t that much of a hassle, you can now have Vista like drive icons in Windows XP with Vista Drive Icon from SourceForge.

Vista Drive Icon is a free utility that will transform the drive icons in Windows XP’s 'My Computer' into drive icons that resemble those in Vista’s 'My Computer'. Once installed, Vista Drive Icon will display a blue, glass-like bar underneath the drive icon. If the drive is close to getting full, the color changes to red.

Only thing I find a little disappointing is that CD and network drive icons are not included.

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Now this is what I like. Too bad they don't offer it in the Netherlands

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Windows Vista shipped to business customers on the last day of November 2006, so the end of November 2007 marks the one year anniversary for supported production use of the product.

Analysis shows, that the vulnerability disclosures and security updates for the first year of Windows Vista, in the context of its predecessor, Windows XP, along with other modern workstation operating systems Red Hat, Ubuntu and Apple products, that is isn't all that bad.

Windows Vista has an improved security vulnerability profile over its predecessor. Analysis of security updates also shows that Microsoft improvements to the security update process and development process have reduced the impact of security updates to Windows administrators significantly compared to its predecessor, Windows XP.

You can read another interesting article about Windows Vista's first year here.

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