Am I the only one getting like a thousand blocked accesses with Zone Alarm everyday, usually on ports ~1025-1030? Anyway, I decided to patch my copy of ZA to the latest version today and it caused all kinds of problems. [a dll was missing that I had to find and move over to ...windows/system manually] The only way to get ZA up and running properly was to uninstall the old version and do a clean install of the newest version. Bleh!

After ZA was up and working, my desktop was all messed up so I had to spend time getting everything back to normal. The last thing that I noticed screwed up was the system tray, the icons were oversized and ugly. So I went Googling looking for a way to fix them as there did not seem to be an option in the desktop settings. In my quest, I came upon Litestep which looks like a cool replacement shell for windows. Might check it out sometime if I have the time.

Checking my system tray after surfing awhile, I noticed my icons had magically transformed themselves back to normal, small and pretty. Doh! The moral of the story? Contrary to popular belief, ignore your troubles and they will go away!