unresolved external symbol CLSID_FileOpenDialog

error LNK2001: unresolved external symbol IID_IFileOpenDialog
error LNK2001: unresolved external symbol CLSID_FileOpenDialog

You're missing uuid.lib.

Launching the device manager in one click

A few of us need to have quick access to the device manager always, and while things have improved on Windows 7, we're still not there with regards to one click access. The solution:

C:\Windows\system32\mmc.exe C:\Windows\system32\devmgmt.msc