How about making these "Ultimate Extra's" for those of us stupid enough to buy the Ultimate version. I still feel ripped off on that front Microsoft.

These feature packs are only avaliable through an OEM... as stated in the KB. The more interesting feature pack is the Media Center TV Pack which allows native QAM and improved TV tuners support.

...no autorun for USB flash drives?

Pass.

You are right, it's impossible with XP as XP is old.
Those morons at Redmond understand 1 thing and that's marketing.
They can't make a descend OS and keep it alive and improve it.
No if you believe them, they create a new OS from scratch all the time.

Yeah right....Vista is simply a fucked up XP, just like ME is a nessed up W98.

Don't they ever learn? Probably not.

I'm bloomin well excited - being able to protect systems against malware on USB flash devices without either disabling USB completely, disabling USB storage devoces completely (via permissions on the USB storage driver file) or buying expensive software is a BIG THING.

And it only took them half a decade to address this slight design flaw.

Woo hoo!! :o)

How about updating XP to support sidescrolling mousewheels natively, like vista does, it's so childish to not put such things in XP, or are they going to claim 'it's not possible' like with DX10? pfft