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Windows Vista is the operating system released in January 2007, as a successor to Windows XP. It was intended for PCs, workstations and laptops, and shares the same code base as its successor, Windows 7. As a result, questions and answers asked of Windows Vista are mostly interchangeable with those of Windows 7. Differences are mostly minor, such as file menus and the wording of dialogs.

Windows Vista, originally with the codename of Longhorn and Mojave before public release, was Microsoft's follow up to Windows XP.

It has been succeeded by Windows 7

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Make Vista Volume Control to remember application-level volume level

Windows Vista has an application-level volume levels for sound devices. There is a Speaker (master volume), an "application" Windows Sounds and further applications. What makes the system to forget the volume level for Windows Sounds.
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Connect certain file to automatically launch through a VBS/ WScript

On Windows Vista, I would like to open all files of a certain extension with a little VBS file (which will then pass on the parameter to a Chrome Application Shortcut app, which is actually what I want). Using a BAT or CMD file with batch commands…
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Weird network interaction between Vista and Ubuntu

I have a network where my WAN (a CableModem) goes into a (dubiously configured) Ubuntu box which acts as the router for the whole company. We recently switched our ISP, and we're getting a very weird behavior. In Vista/Server 2008 machines, some…
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Vista auto-login as local user on a domain-joined computer

We have an environment that requires laptops to login as a local user even through the machine is joined to the domain. With XP, we could push out registry keys: DefaultUserName = 'ALocalUser' DefaultPassword = 'ThePassword' …
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Can I install apache and IIS together on same computer?

I already installed Wamp (Windows, Apache, MySql and PHP). But now, I want to learn other language, i.e C# and C++ (probably C++ first, but not sure which one I should go first..) To use C# or C++, i want to install Visual Studio 2008 express…
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Remote Desktop to Vista Home Premium PCs

Is there a way of connecting via Remote Desktop to a Vista Home Premium system, or do I need to use VNC instead? Edit: I'm having a bad day with TLA's. Sorry
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Gpresult provides wrong output on vista machine regarding UAC settings

I have two workstations running Windows 7 Professional 64bit with SP1 and Windows Vista Business 32bit with SP2. Both are in the same OU and have a GPO linked named Hardening_Computers_Clients. This are the defined settings within the GPO: This is…
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How to create a local IIS site with encrypted wwwroot using EFS on Vista

I'm preparing a laptop to take with me while travelling, so all my user data is encrypted using EFS in case someone decides to steal it. I also need to set up a couple of local sites for development with IIS. If I turn off encryption on the wwwroot…
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Group policy drive mapping extension not applying to Vista SP2 machine

I have one GPO (called Desktop_User) that applies to a Windows 7 and a Windows Vista machine. When I log on to this systems, the drive mapping works on the Windows 7 machine but the Windows Vista machine (using the same AD account). I just can't…
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Windows Vista updates

I am sick and tired unchecking update to IE8 every few days when new update is pushed. How do I permanently set update as not wanted for some items? IE8 and Office 2007 in particular.
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Per-user login.cmd in Vista?

I would like to know if there is a per-user version of %SystemRoot%\System32\login.cmd available? The default login.cmd file contains comments hinting towards this, but I can't find anything about it anywhere else.
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Is there any way to exclude specific files / directories from SuperFetch?

Overall, I love the SuperFetch feature in Vista and believe it results in hugely noticeable gains in the launch time and overall "snappiness" of the system. However, sometimes it apparently gets "bored" and attempts to cache huge files in the…
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Connecting two systems in a network?

I'm trying to connect 2 laptops in a network One laptop is installed with Windows Vista as Operating System and the other is installed with Windows 7. 1) Both of them are in one workgroup called "TESTING" 2) L1 IP : 192.168.1.2 Windows 7 L2 IP :…
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Vista Business can't contact domain controller

One of laptops in our firm has problems contacting domain controller. It is Vista Business with DHCP enabled config (DNS set up correctly). At this point only one person can login and only if network cable isn't connected. Noone else can login,…
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Vista Batch File Limits

We have created two batch files which set two lots of folder permissions. T:\folder1 level1 all get read only permissions. T:\folder1\subfolder1 level2 all get change permissions. The batch files we have created work fine and get through to H in…
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