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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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Uninstall Vista update without being able to run Windows

The PC of a friend will no longer boot into Windows (not even safe mode). I have recovered the crash dump file and run it through WinDbg. This indicates that the problem comes from WinInit.exe and the error is VISTA DRIVER FAULT Also in my…
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Vista deployment: "BOOTMGR is missing"

I have created a Vista disk image with ImageX, largely following the instructions at http://www.svrops.com/svrops/articles/sysprepvista.htm. When I apply the image to a clean, active partition on identical hardware, I get the message "BOOTMGR is…
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Makecert.exe hangs

I was following the steps in Scott Hanselman's blog post describing how to create a certificate authority and code signing certificate for PowerShell scripts. Initially, I created the certificate authority and a personal certifcate and used it to…
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Chkdisk won't run on Vista laptop

I have a laptop here running Windows Vista, and it's complaining about corrupt files. There are folders which I can't access. When I try and run chkdisk, it tells me I need to do this at the next reboot since the drive is in use. I go ahead and…
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Recover overwritten file

I accidentally overwrite my file with another file. It was happened when take the latest version from Visual Source Safe(VSS). Can I recover my old file?
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Is AMD Turion™ 64 X2 really 64 bit?

I've HP Pavilion Notebook (db6000). It has AMD Turion™ 64 X2. It came pre-installed with Windows Vista Home Premium. I smoked it and installed Vista again. But in spite of it being touted at 64bit I was not able to install Vista 64 bit version. It…
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Fileshares hang when Vista talks to 2003?

So my box is running Vista Business all patched up nice. The dev server is on win2003. What sometimes happens is that I'll click on a file, usually an image, and then get nothing more from the box. Nobody can access the fileshares, but it serves…
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Poor-Man's Loopback on a Virtual Machine

I want to route the address 10.0.0.10 from my virtual machine back to my virtual machine through my physical router. How do I configure my virtual machine, host, and router to do so? The host is a 64-bit Vista machine and the VM is a 32-bit Vista…
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How do I transfer a Windows XP/Vista/7 partition into Xen?

Good morning Server Fault, I have several hard disks with installations of Windows XP, Vista, and 7. I do not want to (or rather can no longer) reinstall these Windows installations so I want to encapsulate the installations into an archive or…
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Tool to Show Real Time Disk Usage in Windows (XP, Vista)

If you run Task Manager (or Process Explorer) and minimise it, it puts an icon in the icon tray which shows current processor usage as a little bar graph. I would like to find a similar tool which will show me current disk activity in a similar…
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Vista 64 not working after using Norton Ghost

We just acquired 7 new Dell Optiplex machines with Vista 64 bit installed. We installed all of our tools and applications on one of the machines and then used Norton Ghost to deploy to the other 6 machines. We have found that the ghosted machines do…
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IPP over SSL/TLS in Windows Vista: Can it be done?

I'm trying to connect a Windows Vista client to a Lanier LD445c (scanner/copier/printer) using IPP over SSL/TLS in order to provide an encrypted channel for printing. The LD445c that I setup for testing is using a self-signed certificate and I'm…
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Vista: service stops just after start

A service is stopping immediately after being started. The service is cygwin sshd and runs under the SYSTEM account, with cyglsa-config for cygwin authentication. How do I diagnose this?
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Virtual Machine Network Services causes networking problems in Vista Enterprise 64 bit install

I have a Quad-core/8GB Vista Enterprise 64-bit (SP2) installation on which I installed Virtual PC 2007. I have a problem that is opposite of all that I found searching around the Internet--everybody has problems making network connections from their…
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What is the Vista equivalent of XP's 'at' command?

I'm trying to automate some jobs and am using the 'at' command on Windows XP. However, Vista doesn't have this. What do I use instead? It needs to be usable from a batch script as well.
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