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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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How would I find the cygwin version which has been installed on my machine

Cygwin - How would I find the Cygwin's version which has been installed on my machine? (Windows Vista)
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What is the difference between the new TFileOpenDialog and the old TOpenDialog?

What is the difference between the new TFileOpenDialog and the old TOpenDialog? In my computer (Win 7/DXE), when I run the code, the dialogs look the same.
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Automatic confirmation of deletion in powershell

I'm running the following command: get-childitem C:\temp\ -exclude *.svn-base,".svn" -recurse | foreach ($_) {remove-item $_.fullname} Which prompts me very frequently like this: Confirm The item at C:\temp\f\a\d has children and the Recurse…
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How to change maven repository folder in windows?

In windows, maven downloads everything in the C:\Documents And Settings\MyUser\.m2 folder (or C:\Users\MyUser\.m2). There exists some way to change the folder that it uses? Specially I want to set it to download anywhere BUT in the Documents And…
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Can I listen on a port (using HttpListener or other .NET code) on Vista without requiring administrator priveleges?

I'm using HttpListener to allow a user to set up a proxy on a user-defined port. When I start the HttpListener, I get an exception if the application isn't running under administrator privileges in Vista. From what I've read, this is expected…
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How can I detect if my process is running UAC-elevated or not?

My Vista application needs to know whether the user has launched it "as administrator" (elevated) or as a standard user (non-elevated). How can I detect that at run time?
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Virtualbox host-guest network setup

How do I set up a network between the Host and the guest OS in Windows vista?
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"Unable to read data from the transport connection: net_io_connectionclosed." - Windows Vista Business and SMTP

Unable to test sending email from .NET code in Windows Vista Business. I am writing code which I will migrate to an SSIS Package once it its proven. The code is to send an error message via email to a list of recipients. The code is below, however I…
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SQL Server 2008 SSMS won't remember password

SQL Server 2008 doesn't remember password inspite of checking the "Remember Password" checkbox. I was suspecting a reboot would solve the problem. But, the issue persists. Environment: Windows Vista Ultimate, SQL Server 2008 I have been hesitant to…
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Why do files get placed in "C:\Users\AppData\Local\VirtualStore\Program Files(x86)"?

I recently updated my Visual Basic 6.0 application and now include an exe.manifest file to prevent UAC Virtualization. After applying this update, some users can't find their data files (Access MDB files) and after a system search they end up…
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Avoid "program stopped working" in C#/.NET

I have a console application written in C#/.NET that I want to run from a script (nant). If an exception occurs in the console application, I would like nant to continue, but in Windows Vista there is a popup that searches for solutions and asks for…
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Active Directory - Check username / password

I'm using the following code on Windows Vista Ultimate SP1 to query our active directory server to check the user name and password of a user on a domain. public Object IsAuthenticated() { String domainAndUsername = strDomain + "\\" + strUser; …
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How to programmatically derive Windows Downloads folder "%USERPROFILE%/Downloads"?

In .NET, we can retrieve the paths to 'special folders', like Documents / Desktop etc. Today I tried to find a way to get the path to the 'Downloads' folder, but it's not special enough it seems. I know I can just do 'C:\Users\Username\Downloads',…
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What directories do the different Application SpecialFolders point to in WindowsXP and Windows Vista

Namely I have: Environment.SpecialFolder.ApplicationData Environment.SpecialFolder.CommonApplicationData Environment.SpecialFolder.LocalApplicationData I am unclear as to were these point to in Windows XP and/or Windows Vista. What I found so far…
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Debugging javascript in Safari for Windows

Is there a way to debug javascript using Safari 3.2 in Windows Vista? I found a link to a debugger named Drosera but I can't get it to work because the information seams to be outdated.
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