Just recently I got a laugh out of a post called “But I Don’t Want to be a Flower!“, a funny title that I associated with Seinfeld. The post actually has a nice, quick tip on how to change that ‘flower’ icon you get on your Vista login screen and in your ‘Start’ menu. Here’s how I changed my icon, not just to one of the stock icons, but to me! Keep reading →

Consider the following scenario:

• You are using a computer that is running Windows Vista Home Premium or Windows Vista Ultimate.
• You have a folder that only contains files that have a .bmp extension (These files are called bitmap picture files).
• You start Windows Media Center in order to add these bitmap picture files to your Picture Library and to view the files.
• You run the Media Center Library Setup Wizard, and you add the folder that has the bitmap files as a watched folder.

In this scenario, even after you add the watched folder, the bitmap picture files do not appear in the Picture Library.