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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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Output text file to TCP port

How can I output a text file to a TCP port on Windows Vista using built-in software? For example, type TextFile.csv | telnet localhost 1979 This doesn't work: The process tried to write to a nonexistent pipe.
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Kiosk Computer GPO

We have several kiosk PCs that are used in common areas. I have GPOs in place to lock these machines down (one GPO has all the Computer settings and another has all the User settings). These GPOs are applied to an OU that contains the User Accounts…
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MDT2010 setup for controlling multiple languages on OS and software

I'm setting up an MDT 2010 server with LTI for deployment of Vista and later on Windows 7 where I'm supposed to control atleast 8 different languages of OS and software. I'm also building a webinterface to control all this to make it easy for my…
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Can't access Windows share by hostname

I have an interesting problem. One of my clients can't access our file server by hostname. If I open explorer and type \\Server1 all I see is a single folder, but if I type it's IP \\10.10.10.10, I can see all the shares on the machine. I can see…
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Apache Unclean shutdown of previous apache run

I'm having problem with running Apache2.2 on my Vista machine. When I clean install Apache it works just fine, but after I installed PHP, I'm getting this error message in logs. [Fri Oct 23 21:29:02 2009] [warn] pid file…
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Turn off "isolation mode" in Vista Task Scheduler?

In Windows Vista (and I assume Windows 7) Microsoft has improved the security of processes that are run through the Task Scheduler, namely http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/appcompat/aa906020.aspx: In the Windows Vista Task Scheduler, security is…
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Temp files are being created in root directory in Vista

I have a user who has some of his temp files being created in the root directory of the C: drive on his Vista notebook. System Properties > Advanced > Environment Variables > User Variables for USER NAME > TEMP (and TMP) both show…
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How do you set a shared folder to ask for a password every time it's accessed

Scenario: Public computer with scanner attached. Client computers with 'My Documents\Scanned Documents' shared but password protected. Public computer has a shortcut to each users 'Scanned Documents' folder. At Public computer, user scans a…
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How to report less memory to 32 bit program so it will work on 64 bit Vista?

I have a legacy setup program that will not install on a 64 bit version of Vista with 4GB of RAM. The setup program performs a check at the beginning of the installation to see if there is enough memory. It determines there is "less than 256K of…
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GPO: Applying a home page to Win7 and Vista Clients running IE9

I am trying to set the homepage on several Windows 7 and Vista machines via Group Policy Preferences. Both are running Internet Explorer 9. The "apply once and do not reapply" option is enabled, as i want the users to be able to override the…
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How can I start xampp and stop IIS on port no 80 in Windows Vista?

I have installed xampp server on Window Vista. The default port no 80 is running for IIS. I need to stop IIS Service and start the Xampp sevice for port no 80. Currently I am running my xampp server by changing the port no in httpd.conf file.
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Is it possible to make a network drive show up as a folder?

I'm using an online backup solution that does not work with networked drives or mapped drives. Is it possible to make a network drive show up as a "regular" folder? What possible impacts could this have? Edit: The backup solution will backup files…
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Vista Workstation Creates Documents folder on 2003 File Server

I have a lab of notebook running vista they map to a h drive on a windows 2003 server r2. The users that have xp dont have this issue but the vista users home drives changed their structure on the windows 2003 server from X:\home\username to…
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What features do you disable in Vista for SME-sized installations, if any?

I'm asking in terms of a small company, less than 20 employees, a mixture of developers and management. At the moment, we're mostly on XP and I'm interested to know what features people would uninstall, if any, and what features they'd definitely…
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CHKDSK hangs on Vista boot while verifying indexes

I recently dual-booted under Vista x64 and Ubuntu 9.04. Instead of using Vista to re-partition before installing Ubuntu, I just let the Ubuntu installer re-partition the drive. Now when I boot into Vista, CHKDSK runs. It passes the first stage,…
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