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Questions tagged [windows-vista]

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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How widespread is Vista in the corporate world?

The question is simple: how widespread is Vista in corporate environments. It seems more companies and end users I see are using XP. Are there many companies out there that have adopted Vista enterprise wide? Are they the minority? On a similar…
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Checking file properties in a batch script?

I have a batch file from a vendor to patch some software on a Vista machine. I'm going to be using GPO to push it out as a startup script. My problem is some systems require this software and some don't. I'd like to add code to the beginning of the…
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Advice for a quick BackUp

I have a Windows Vista Dell Machine. From the past 2 days, it's acting strange and I feel it could crash. I have a restore point but if there is a hardware failure, that's all worthless. Can someone suggest me a quick way of creating a backup/image…
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Networkmapping script (VBS) Vista doesn't work, XP does

I've got a weird problem, (like always :p ) Okay: Situation: Windows 2003 domain with XP clients. With a GPO I'm running a VBS script on login to map a few drives. This works great on XP, but not on Vista. If I manually run the script after the…
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Vista virtual machine runs slow in Vmware Server 2.0

I'm running Vmware Server 2.0 on a Lenovo Thinkpad T61, on Windows XP. Normally, VMs run fine on this setup, but I installed a Vista VM and it's running painfully slow. Too slow to even use. There's enough memory (1.5GB) allocated to the VM, so I'm…
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Automaticly logon on and logoff

I use terminal services to manage a vista machines on a domain-less lan. After I am done with that session I would like Vista to re-login to the previous account. How do I pull this off?
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Vista Public Folder Sharing

We've just added a Vista Home Premium machine to our office workgroup network. The rest of the machines are running XP. In the Network and Sharing Center of the Vista machine, 'Public Folder Sharing' is set on, but with password required. Is there…
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Mount Vista Public Folder in Fedora

cant for the life of me remember how to access a public folder on vista from fedora using SMB on Fedora. It seems to connect to the Vista box but not the location...
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Limiting Active Directory logons on a particular machine

My university is switching from a Novell based logon system to Active Directory. One of the 'features' IT is advertising is the ability for any user to log onto any machine. This is fine for computer labs and the like, but for computers in offices…
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Make iis7 accessible from the internet

How can i Make iis7 accessible from the internet ? i opened port 80 on my router and firewall but i use try to access it i get the router configuration . any ideas ??
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self-signed certificate issue in IIS 7.0

I am setting up IIS 7.0 on a Windows Vista box. I am using self-signed certificate (by using built-in Create Self-Signed Certificate feature of IIS 7.0) on a web site. The I can browse from the local machine (the machine with IIS and web site) for…
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Error setting a Windows Service LogOn user

I have a windows service installed (Vista SP1), and I'm trying to set its logon user to a domain user instead of the SYSTEM account. I'm able to select the domain location & user through 'browse', but hitting Apply gets me this error message: "the…
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vista clients can't connect to default sbs 2008 share

One of my vista sp2 clients can no longer see the default share on my sbs 2008 sp2 box. The server has no av and i've unsintalled anti virus stuff from the client and rebooted it. The client was fine until today. I don't think anything has changed…
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Remote Desktops on Vista/Win7 x64?

Is the Windows Server 2003 Service Pack 1 Administration Tools Pack the only way to install the Remote Desktops MMC add-in on Vista/Win7 x64 workstations? Are there any better, low cost alternatives?
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DNS servers not assigned by DHCP

I got working domain with DHCP, DNS servers installed and firewall ZyWall 5 which resolves names to internet. In DHCP server configuration I've set also static IP address of server as a primary DNS server but when I try to renew IP address on…
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