After I had installed a number of applications on my Vista system, I had to restart at some point and when the system came back up, a notification popped up telling me there had been some startup applications that had not been run because of missing permissions. Clicking the prompt brought up this window:

Now, for the life of me I can’t figure out what the applications are that are supposedly problematic. The only one that kind of sticks out at me is Skype, but that has been started and is running nicely. The window doesn’t seem to contain any information that’s relevant to my problem at hand, i.e. seeing those applications that have allegedly not been run. There doesn’t seem to be a way either to change any of the settings for the listed applications – seeing that Skype is “Not yet classified”, I would assume I can now classify it. Apparently I can’t. So is somebody else doing the classifying? Huh? Must be me…

I tried mapping a network drive to a share on my server, using the UNC path \\filer.win.sturmnet.org\sturm. Then I hit the “different user name” link – all this looks exactly like it used to under Windows XP. But it works differently: as soon as I log off and on again, the details about the user name and password to use are lost.

The solution was simple: the User Accounts applet in the Control Panel still allows to configure network passwords for an account, but the information I had entered while mapping the network drive wasn’t listed there. I entered it manually and everything works just fine now.