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Windows Vista is an operating system that was the successor of Windows XP and the predecessor of Windows 7. It is not maintained nor supported anymore.

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As of April 8, 2017 Microsoft has stopped the support for Windows Vista. See the official recommendations.

Windows Vista is an operating system developed and sold by Microsoft. The successor to Microsoft's popular Windows XP (), Vista incorporates new features such as the Windows Aero desktop UI, improved home network support, Windows Search, and improved security features like the User Access Control (UAC) ().

Windows Vista was announced on July 22, 2005, and development was officially completed on November 8, 2006. It was released worldwide on January 30, 2007, after being initially released through business customers and OEMs.

By October 22, 2009, Microsoft released Windows 7 (), the successor of Vista.

Windows Vista ceased sales on October 22, 2010. As of 2012, the Vista market share was estimated at less than 7%.

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Vista Home Premium IIS 7.0 and asp.net

New laptop, new operating system. Windows Vista premium. I've installed Visual Studio and IIS 7.0. I open my web project in visual studio and vist the properties view for the web app. The webDev server is currently selected. I select IIS instead…
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SQL 2005 Express on SBS2008 connection issues from Vista x32 SP2 machines

I have a VB6.0 application running at a client's site on Vista SP2. When attempting to connect to a SQL 2005 Express database on a named instance ([edit]running in Mixed Mode - not Windows Authentication Only), on a SBS2008 server, from THREE OF THE…
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How to test app for Vista

I've written an app that connects to websites APIs and does some things there. It is a app written in C#, .NET 3.5 on a XP OS. Now I have a problem. Some people reported that this application hangs on Vista, and not on the more new version of…
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Vista - Program crash notification

My memory is fuzzy but I seem to recall that Windows Vista introduced an ability to know why an application crashed. But I cannot remember the name of the feature. My intent is that if my application crashed for some unknown reason, the next time…
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One machine on network cannot connect to SQL 2005

I've got a small Windows network with 3 machines. One of them has SQL 2005 installed. As of last week, the other two machines have had no problems connecting to the SQL instance. Today, one machine - running Vista, if that matters - all of a sudden…
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Disabling the inner-border of an Aero Glass form

Controls on an Aero Glass enabled form paint a 2 pixel wide transparent border by default (1px dark gray/1px white on my theme). Is it possible to disable this behavior? My approach so far: I tried expanding the frame and force it to use the…
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Windows Form Paints Repeatedly In XP, But Not In Vista

I am trying to solve an issue in my application. I am developing the application in Vista and it works fine there, but when I take it to XP, the form becomes sluggish and unresponsive. When I watch the windows messages using breakpoints, I find…
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Some help working out kinks in a .bat

My current .bat file is as follows: @echo off rem iTunes tasklist /FI "IMAGENAME eq itunes.exe" /FO CSV > "C:/ForStartingStuff/ForItunes.log" FOR /F %%A IN (' "C:/ForStartingStuff/ForItunes.log" ') DO IF %%~zA EQU 0 GOTO end cd "C:\Program Files…
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Zend Framework on Vista

I am moving my first steps with the Zend Framework. I have it on my Linux partition and it works fine. Now, I want to use it on Vista. I have downloaded and installed Zend Server CE. Seems to work. However, when I try to edit some file inside my…
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can i extract the icon image from vista application? (mainly word and pdf)

i'm trying to extract the icon that shown in vista for pdf and word files. is there anyways for me to do so? also, the icon i want is the big one (128px by 128px probably?) a screenshot: alt text http://img233.imageshack.us/img233/756/capturehmb.jpg
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file hidden flex vista

is there any way to create a file as a hidden in vista, xp, 2000,98 ,macintosh from flex by using var file:File = new File(""); or any other way
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cronjob/trigger which can update the database everyday

I am using MYSQL as my database and PHP as my programming language.I wanted to run a cron job which would run until the current system date matches the "deadline(date)" column in my database table called "PROJECT".Once the dates are same an update…
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Vista/7 CoreAudio pascal files for Delphi

I've been looking all around for the CoreAudio pascal files and I can't find them. I searched the Rad Studio XE2 source directory to no avail. On Google I found some partial files but none I found was the whole package or seem to include…
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Will applications compiled with Visual Basic 5 run on Vista or Windows 7?

The subject says it all... I am not, however, asking if the VB5 IDE will install and run on Vista/Windows 7 - just the project output. Thanks [UPDATE] I found some more information that seems to show that not only will VB5 apps run under Windows 7…
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Can't start WAMP and XAMPP server on Windows Vista with IIS 7

I had a problem starting WAMP and XAMPP on my PC running Windows Vista. Perhaps because I also program in Microsoft Visual Studio and use IIS 7, localhost (also used by WAMP and XAMP) was not available and a couple of processes blocked the launch of…
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