Jalada (10/08): You can go into the Net/Sharing...

Windows Impressions

on tumble*jalada from 11 weeks ago

You can go into the Net/Sharing Centre and then click 'manage network connections' and you can disable + enable there, but there's no renew which is annoying.

UAC is definitely a pain if you're having to do a lot of system work. I can imagine it frustrates you more because the times you use Vista are when you are trying to fix things, so it's going to be popping up all the time! I would suggest temporarily disabling it in these circumstances. I think UAC needs to take a few ideas from Linux - let you interactively choose to run as 'root' for a time, and let you use something like 'sudo' from the command line.

I never thought of using the x86 program files folder as a way of determining if someone is running 64-bit! The Welcome Centre also tells you I believe.