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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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Elevating Windows installer in Vista

Vista requires elevated rights for installers which install drivers or other system items. Pointsec has one of these installers with the problem that the installer itself does not request elevation so the elevation must be granted to it…
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Windows Vista: error 646 raised by Windows Update when applying update for Office 2007

I have 12 Vista desktops on a Windows 2003 SBS domain. The updates are controlled through Windows Update Services 3. The desktops have the same hardware and software configuration: Windows Vista Business x86 and Office 2007 Small Business. Applying…
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What do I do if .NET Framework is not installing?

When I try to install .NET Framework 3.5 on Windows Vista 64bit Home Premium edition it did not work. The Windows Update error code was 643. How do I fix this problem and install it?
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install SQL Server 2008 R2 on Chinese Vista fails: Checks if existing performance counter registry hive is consistent

PerfMonCounterNotCorruptedCheck Checks if existing performance counter registry hive is consistent. Failed The performance counter registry hive is corrupted. To continue, you must repair the performance counter registry hive. For more…
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Huge host CPU usage in idle vmware guest. Ubuntu 10.04 host, Vista SP2 guest

I'm experiencing huge host CPU usage with an idle vmware guest. Host: Ubuntu 10.04 32-bit 2.6.32-24-generic-pae. (Very new install, i.e 24 hours ago) Hardware is Dell XPS M1530 laptop, 4GB ram. Intel Core II Duo T9300 2.50Ghz The virtualization…
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How do I use Vista's "query process" with a long program name?

I'm trying to use Vista's process list utility to find a PID. You should be able to do this: query process program.exe What I'm finding is that if the program name is short (like above), it will find it. But if it's long, like the following: query…
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Vista 64x Enterprise repair boot manager

I had two Vista versions on my PC and I deleted one and now I cannot boot my other vista 64x Enterprise anymore. I have tried the bcd instructions to repair the boot loader, however I cannot get it to work, as bootsect.exe is missing. Does anyone…
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Command line way to change time and timezone in vista/2008

Is there a way to to change time and timezone in vista/2008 per command line?
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How to disable group policy control over Windows Vista firewall?

With Windows Vista Business, I'd like to completely disable any group policy (both local and domain) control over the Windows Firewall so that I can turn it off and on at will on the computer directly. I have admin rights on the computer and the…
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Resizing the "Change Journal" in Vista

The only way I've found of resizing the "Change Journal" in Vista, is by going to safe-mode. That works fine, but I wonder if there is a better solution. Here is resizing it from 32MB by default on my HDD to 256MB with 1MB increments: fsutil usn…
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Windows Vista having trouble accessing hard drive

This is one of the more bizarre issues I've seen. One of the guys at my company has Vista on his laptop which worked just fine until earlier this week. All of a sudden, everything would run really slowly, but only intermittently. AFter playing with…
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Unknown Directory Shortcut File or Mount | VISTA

I have this weird mount icon after a trojan cleanup days ago for a client. The icon when clicked takes you to the My Computer guid. The file properties are Type: File, Location: C:\, Size: 6.76. If we try to delete it will not complete. I search…
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Vista Enterprise doesn't find logon servers in a network with 802.1x authentication

In a network with 802.1x configuration and a samba server configured in the domain, I have a radius server that delegates the authentication against the samba domain for users (using LDAP). The radius defines which VLAN the user is supposed to have…
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How to install on Windows Server 2008, an application that is not natively supported, but not use compatibility mode?

I have an application to install on Windows Server 2008, which is not natively supported by the installer. The application installer permits installation on Windows Vista(or XP, or 7). I do not want to use compatibility mode; even if I did it…
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Virtual network setup with Guest OS installed in virtual box

I am a Linux newbie. I have just installed Ubuntu inside Vista using Virtual box. Everything is working fine. now i wanted to establish a client server (virtual) network with a guest os (ubuntu) to connect to the cassandra server installed in…
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