Drive Cleanup

I am impressed. I was having difficulty connecting my eSATA drive to windows 7. I found this program and it cleared out all old drive references from the registry. http://www.uwe-sieber.de/drivetools_e.html#drivecleanup

SharePoint Log File Shrinking

Here is a real gem for recovering space taken up by log file growth. It is of course recommended that you back up any files first.

USE SharePoint_Config
GO

ALTER DATABASE SharePoint_Config SET RECOVERY SIMPLE
DBCC SHRINKFILE(N'SharePoint_Config_log', 50)

ALTER DATABASE 
SharePoint_Config SET RECOVERY FULL
GO

SharePoint 2010 - Setting Up Development Environment

Great whitepaper I found a while ago on setting this up:
https://docs.google.com/open?id=0B4-lBnIxXbzWSmw5MHNuSG1ieGc