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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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Having IIS remote management problem with my vista machine managing Server 2008 IIS 7.5

I am trying to use IIS 7 Remote Management installed on Vista Ultimate SP1. Connection is to IIS 7.5 on Windows Server 2008 Webserver R2. Tried on both full & core install. When I connect up, the console wants to download and install new…
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How can I add an existing OS install to the Windows Vista boot manager?

I had Windows Server 2003 installed on my primary hard drive. I then added a new hard drive and formatted/installed Windows Vista on the new hard drive. The old drive with Windows Server 2003 is still on my system as D: but I don't have the option…
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Why my Core2Duo 2.2GHz 4GB RAM w/Vista doesn't feel faster than my single-core PM 2GHz 2GB RAM running XP?

I've recently changed laptop and I would have expect it to be quite a lot faster, but it feels more or less the same? Is it just Vista? Will it be better with Win7?
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Can I use RSync to reliably backup a Vista computer to a Linux server?

I've got a computer running Vista x64 with a standard user account, but I can elevate to administrator to install a service or RSync software. I want to backup by data drive (d:) to a server running Ubuntu. How can I do this reliably with RSync?
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Windows Server 2008 user account login problem in Vista

I got working domain and all the user accounts log into Windows XP without any problem, but once I want to login into Vista with the same user accounts I got error message which says that the attempt to recognize the name of DNS domain controller…
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What causes Vista to trigger startup of processes on wifi enabled?

On a Vista laptop with a on/off switch for Wifi, turning the switch on will trigger a lot of activity, killing performance and causing a lot of hard drive grinding. The problem appears to be the auto-starting of mobsync.exe, which in turn starts up…
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Cannot Turn Windows Features on - Shadow Copy Error

Whenever I try to install a Windows component (ex. an IIS Module) in the control panel, it runs for a bit and returns: An error has occurred. Not all the features were successfully changed. The event viewer gives a clue: Ran out of time while…
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Vista Backup failed: "The filename, directory name or volume label syntax is incorrect (0x8007007B)"

My computer recently attempted to run a backup and failed with the above error code. I tried creating a new backup on removable media, again this failed. I watched where the backup failed and found some files that were behaving oddly, including…
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VPN Client kills all connection while disconnecting

When my VPN Client (5.0.0.3) connection is lost after being idle OR I force it to disconnect when switching between my Colo and Office it always knocks out my normal connection for a second. I'll notice it because my IM client disconnects then…
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Why does Vista UAC kick in for "Install a program from the network"?

I have a network which I am managing using System Center Essentials 2007. For the size network I have, it does the job adequately enough. However, there is one little nit-picky thing I am trying to work around... I can publish applications to…
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How to make sure that an external USB drive gets the same drive letter?

Is there a way to reserve a drive letter for an external hard drive?
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Vista VPN - This connection requires an active Internet connection

I seem to be getting this annoying error intermittently. Although my internet connection is working fine the Connect To dialog insists that I can't connect to my VPN connections as there isn't an active connection. If I dig down to the actual…
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Windows Vista on AWS

I've only found details about running Windows Server on AWS, is it possible to create my own Windows Vista VMWare instance locally and upload the image to AWS?
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Recover original file names from Volume Shadow Copy?

In the Volume Shadow Copy folders there are some cryptically names files like: \System Volume Information\{3808876b-c176-4e48-b7ae-04046e6cc752} Is there any way to decipher what the file name was before it was put in the System Volume Information…
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OpenSSH can't open known_hosts and id_rsa, but the files are clearly accessible

It seems my openssh client (OpenSSH_4.6p1, OpenSSL 0.9.8e 23 Feb 2007) is unable to open known\_hosts or the id\_rsa file, even though I can see them just fine by looking at their content with a 'type' command. This is being run as the 'SYSTEM' user…
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