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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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Upgrading From Vista to windows 7

Will we get same performance of a fresh windows 7 installation by upgrading vista to windows 7.
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Windows Vista MAK keys and Volume Licensing

Possible Duplicate: Can you help me with my software licensing question? So when I go into the Volume Licensing Service Center and review our current used/available MAK activations, it says #/50. (the # being the number of our currently used).…
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Getting Windows Vista to use our domain server's time

I am in charge of a small domain of 20 or so computers. I recently found how to get the windows XP machines to get their time from our domain controller using this batch file: call w32tm /config /syncfromflags:domhier /update call net stop…
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Intel VT-x not working on Dell Precision M4400 (P8600 processor)

I have a Dell Precision Laptop model M4400 with an Intel Core 2 Duo P8600 processor. In the BIOS, there are several options for enabling virtualization technology (VT-x). I've toggled all of these options ON. My problem is that neither Virtual PC…
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KVM QEMU looses USB devices

I have a KVM Qemu setup. I'm mapping a USB device to a VM running windows vista. I get the device mapped, and all is well for some time. Suddenly the device disappears in Vista. If I do "lsusb" in linux it shows up, and if I run "info usbhost" in qm…
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Windows vista and 7 don't honor routing table metric?

I have the route table below on a Vista machine, I can see the same problem on Windows 7 too. If I ping 193.181.14.10, I would expect the OS to honor the metric and choose either 0.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 10.1.1.254 172.20.22.14 …
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Windows 2003 DHCP Server - FIlled with BAD ADDRESS Entries

Our WIndows Server 2003 DHCP scope is being filled with BAD ADDRESS leases. This happened after we started deploying Vista to the domain. It is most prevalent when a user disconnects from their wired connection and plugs back in on an alternate…
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WinPE slow dhcp crashes LTI

Is there a good way to make a LTI installation wait for an ip address before its trying to start the installation wizard? I currently get errors when i boot my PEimg that only says the network path to the deployment share is unavailable. ipconfig in…
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Windows Vista Default Printer Changes When Using Remote Desktop

I've recently discovered on the Vista boxes in my office that if a user logs in from outside the network using Remote Desktop to their office PC the default printer changes. That change of default printer is really annoying when they come back to…
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How to remove a workstation from a domain with no DC

My Google-fu is failing me for me some reason but I need to remove a machine (Vista workstation) from a non-existent domain and domain controller. It's prompting me for the domain administrator's username and password, which I do not have (nor…
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Problem with time syncronization in client machine

The company I work for still uses Windows 2000 Server for most, if not all of its infrastructure. I recently joined my Vista laptop to the domain and noticed the system clock jumped ahead by an hour. I know the cause of this is because the time is…
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Is it possible to install Windows Vista or 2008 Server on a USB Hard Drive?

With Windows XP, it was not possible to install it to a USB Hard drive (without diving deep into unsupported terrain). With Windows 7, it looks like VHD Support could solve that. But is there a supported way to install either Windows Vista or…
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Solution for running a 32 bit DLL in a 64 bit process or vise versa

I am running windows vista business 64 bit. I have a web service that was written in .NET using C#. I also have a client-side script on a web page that communicates with the web service. This is a aspx page titled "Default.aspx". I setup IIS and…
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Can I 'un-raid' my raid 1 setup

My dell T7400 has two 300G 15k SAS drives in a raid 1 configuration. I'd like to instead have a 300G 'C" drive and a 300G 'D' drive. Is there anyway to remove one of the drives from the raid configuration without having to reinstall the OS? and…
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Edit files in Vista

I want to modify a file in vista ( C:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc\hosts ) but I can't write it to disk. Similar thing happen with other files that are not under my user directory. C:\Users\me I am in the administrator group. What is needed to…
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