Fixing non-bootable CentOS 5 after VMware converter P2V

Did P2V for old CentOS 5.5 i686 install and it failed to boot. Recreating initrd helped. Also see thread on VMware support forums.

Disappearing show desktop button on Windows quicklaunch

There's bug in some Microsoft hotfixes that causes show desktop button to disappear from Win XP / Win 2003 quicklaunch bar.

Run "regsvr32 /n /i:U shell32" and logoff+logon to get it back.