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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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Windows Vista activation in VMWare

Our QA team requires Vista VMs for testing (installers, features, performance general compatibility, etc.). Physical PCs with Vista installed don't cut it since they make it difficult to roll back to specific points in the process. The problem is…
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WMF 4.0 & DSC on Vista? Any chance?

I am currently evaluating the Microsoft PowerShell Desired State Configuration feature. Unfortunately, my company is still running more then 5000+ Vista clients (and W2003 servers), which seems like a big show stopper when it comes to WMF 4.0. I am…
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IP setting on a windows

I am working at a job site that i am setting up a jumbo sign and i am trying to figure out if there is a way to set a ip for a wifi on a windows PC and when you log off that wifi it will go away, but when you come back on the wifi it will set the ip…
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Windows disk imaging for backup with auto scheduling

I am after a way to automatically schedule a disk image backup of Windows Vistas x64 systems. Required features Ability to run on nightly schedule with no user involvement (so this takes out things like CloneZilla I think) Easy way to restore using…
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nslookup resolves but Vista network stack doesn't

On a Vista x64 PC with a wired connection to a Server 2003 Domain environment, a DHCP-assigned IP, and an empty hosts file, intermittently any attempt to ping, telnet or otherwise resolve a particular machine name (or FQDN) (and not always the same…
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How useful is ReadyBoost on W7 (or Vista)

As a cheap (and temporary, if I can convince the powers that be to buy more RAM), solution to speed up some development laptops, is it worthwhile using ReadyBoost with a few spare SD cards? I'm worried it will become the 'accepted' workaround, and…
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Vista Failure Auditing

I need to meet government security requirements in order to ship my product. Here is specific requirement I am trying to meet: Group ID (Vulid): V-1080 Group Title: File Auditing Configuration Rule ID: SV-29471r1_rule Severity: CAT II Rule…
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Connect to Teredo-enabled server behind NAT

I've got a Vista64 machine behind a NAT router connected to the IPv4 Internet. Teredo is enabled on my machine and I've got a IPv6 address with 2001:0: prefix. I can ping several servers in the IPv6 Internet (like force.ipv6only.se or…
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What exceptions should Windows Firewall have to allow network discovery?

I'm running Vista x64 at work (upgrading to Win7 on Monday), and I've had a problem for awhile. When I have Windows Firewall turned on, I'm unable to connect to my machine from any other machine on the network. Turning it off makes my machine…
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Install a program from the network

In Windows there is a place under the Control Panel called Get Programs and Install a program from the network (in Win 7 at least), possibly a slightly different name in Vista, but it was there too. The question is basically: How do you publish…
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Windows Server 2008 (sp2) stops responding on network share requests from Windows Vista and 7 clients

I have two Windows Server 2008 SP2 machines (TFS and TFSBUILD). Periodically, the TFSBUILD server shares (\TFSBUILD\ShareName or \TFSBUILD\C$) become unresponsive to requests from Windows Vista (Server 2008) and Windows 7 client requests. Windows XP…
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My Vista's nslookup returns an ipv4 address for an ipv6 site

the command: nslookup ipv6.google.com doesn't work quite well. somtimes it returns an correct ipv6 address, sometimes it returns an ipv4 address. How can this happen? [im using OpenDNS] much thanks for help.
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Why is my hosts file not working?

I've been using the hosts file to for local website development, and it's recently stopped working. No entries other than localhost resolve. I've simplified to test, so it now contains only 127.0.0.1 localhost ::1 localhost 127.0.0.1 …
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IPSec VPN on Vista

My company uses IPCop to configure it's VPN. We have an IPSec script that runs on Windows XP to open a connection using a security certificate for authentication. Microsoft totally changed things around with Vista, and our script no longer works. …
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How to force Kill process in Vista?

Ok, I've tried in the task manager - it didn't worked. Then I've tried in command line by: taskkill /im name.exe /F And it says (it's a translation from polish, so it's not exact): ERROR: can't end process "name.exe" with PID 6788. Cause: Access…
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