Some windows registry hacks to get round anoying issues with Windows.

Use at your own risk!

Enable file extentions in Outlook 2003

In regedit navigate to: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\11.0\Outlook\Security

Add a new string value of: Level1Remove

Add the file extentions you wish to view in Outlook, i.e. .mdb;.hlp

Stop Windows Vista SP1 from creating Thumbs.db files on network shares

In regedit navigate to: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer

Add a new DWord value of: NoThumbnailCache

Set the value to: 1