Vista Makes Attempt on my Sanity

At work we've been cursed with Microsoft's Windows Vista. While I do like the visual appearance of Vista, there's times when the whole thing feels half done. Today is a great example.

When I fired up my PC this morning, the taskbar (which I always set to auto-hide) would flicker up and down randomly but regularly. I did some searching around, and it turns out that turning OFF the system network icon in the Notification Area causes the flicker. Turning it off. Damn that's stupid.