I just turned off the sidebar, as it's completely useless waste of memory and screen real estate.

Actually, you can move it to different edges of the screen. When I manually launch the sidebar it's on the left edge of my #2 monitor. My #2 is to the left of #1.

I think the settings for that are in the control panel under sidebar.

The one feature which has caused me to stay with vista, is the search bar in the start menu. That alone makes up for all the other shortcomings in my mind.

Can you drag and drop files into vs.net 2005 with UAC enabled? Because for some reason, I can't drag and drop anything into vs.net without turning off UAC completely.