I believe I'm one of the last to have grown up with DOS or Windows 3.1 as their first Microsoft adventure. Back in the days of old, I thought I'd be smart and free up some needed space on my 50MB hard drive, so I deleted all these .dll files that were cluttering up my system and keeping me from running a primitave DOS game. Well, I realized the next morning that those DLL files were slightly more important than my game. Luckily even at a young age (I was 12), I did backup those DLLs to more than twenty 1.38MB floppy disks.
Oh yeah, I still have that 50MB hard drive. It doesn't work though.

Slipstreaming Service Packs

NT5 or below Kernel Architecture
You can find many different graphical representations of the NT Kernel architecture. I've been trying to combine them into the most details & accurate representation I can come up with. This is a continuous process, so this graphic may change. This graphic would represent kernel version 5.x and lower. Vista & Server 2008 use this NT6 Architecture which I'm still working on.

NT Process/Thread states Diagram
This graphic was taken from a Dave Probert powerpoint file. It shows the thread states as the call stacks for the various operations that are called when moving between the various states.

Remove IPv6 & Tunnel Interfaces on Vista
Click on the link above to download a registry file that you'll need to merge to remove the IPv6, Tunnel Adapters, Turedo interfaces, and basically make your Vista network stack more like XP. Interestingly, the ipconfig /all command now reports the DNS server and it didn't with IPv6 enabled. Strange.