One thing which has always annoyed me about Windows is its inability to pick up and recognise nvidia raid sets (created by the nvidia raid bios utility). Windows XP and much earlier versions of Windows Vista I beta tested (CTP’s 50 and below) required that you have a 3rd party driver provided by the motherboard manufacturer. Having this nvidia raid driver (usually called nvraid) hanging around on a floppy drive was always inconvenient. I had long removed floppy drives from my computers years ago because I just didn’t need them. With Windows XP I would slip stream the nvidia raid drivers into a Windows XP installation using nlite so that I wouldn’t have to muck around with the normal F6 business during windows startup.

Skip forward to the present day of Windows Vista release January 30th. Windows finally just recognises my nvraid array. Such a little thing yet such a big win in convenience.