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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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Autostart Apps in order - Windows Vista

Is there some way to autostart apps in Vista so you can control which one is started first, second, third etc. For example if I want to start Outlook, Visual Studio, Dreamweaver, IE, Firefox in that order, and to have them appear in the taskbar like…
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Possible to only initiate scheduled task if shortcut/button clicked?

I've created 2 tasks in Task Scheduler on my Vista PC start uTorrent at 2am then close uTorrent (and shutdown PC) at 7am. However i'd like to only like this task to run if I've clicked a shortcut - ideally show something in the tray as well if…
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Valid path not so valid in Vista using ParseDisplayName. Why?

In the following code example... where filePath is: E:\[D]\My Collection (a folder generated by picasa when it archives media) works okay on XP (32-bit). I recent ran this on vista 64-bit... and ParseDisplayName errors with "Value does not fall…
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Why does Visual Studio warn me that Administrator permissions are recommended?

I have UAC turned off and am running VS 2005 from an administrator account and I get this message. Also, when I try to add existing web site to a solution from VS 2008 I get a message saying I must run VS in the context of an administrator account.
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When open my asp.net site in Chrome on a newly started computer with Windows Vista the webpage load very slow/vista stops for a while?

When open my asp.net site in Chrome on a newly started computer with Windows Vista the webpage load very slow/vista stops for a while? It works fine in windows7 with chrome. Can it be something wrong with chrome and Vista, or is it something wrong…
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Folder in the programdata disappeared

I have an application that write data in the programdata folder in vista. The application seems to write data to that location but the folder is not visible. What will be the problem for this.
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Error on executing .msu file in vista platform

I'm trying to run the .msu file in the vista platform through command prompt my command looks like this: " startfile.exe Windows6.0-KB942288-v2-x86.msu /quiet /norestart " startfile.exe is a blank exe through which I'm executing the .msu file. The…
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Windows Games Explorer Play/Support Tasks

I'm trying to get a game I'm working on to integrate with the Windows Games Explorer. So far I have embedded a Game Definition Format XML file as a resource in my binary (my actual executable) and I've been able to register the game inside the…
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In newer Windows, window is tiny with no borders

I've been working on updating an old (Windows 95-era C API) application. While it works fine on Windows XP, on Vista and newer it always displays in a tiny 240x160 window with no menus or borders. What are the differences between Vista and XP that…
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nsinstall: Bad file number error on Vista

I'm attempting to build Firefox on my Windows Vista Ultimate machine. I keep getting the following error: nsinstall: Bad file number I've read that this error is caused because of UAC in Vista. Here are the two articles that lead me to this…
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CreateDispatch causes Vista to get all twitchy

I am creating an instance of word by calling CreateDispatch("Word.Application"). This works fine except in Vista it causes the dialog about the server being busy to come up and you have to keep hitting the "switch to" button several times. Each time…
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Request suspend on Vista but allow other applications to cancel

My application uses the Win32 SetSuspendState() API to trigger system suspend or hibernation when it has finished doing a lengthy task. The API accepts a parameter "ForceCritical" which determines whether or not the system suspends immediately or…
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Looking for list of files already included with each version of Windows (XP, Vista, 7) so we know what to distribute

We have been distributing OleAut32.dll and olepro32.dll (and other DLLs that are in the VB6 Runtime package) for many years now but Windows 7 has a newer version of those. And we were forcing our VB6 app to use our copies of them. I removed all of…
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Vista Serial programmatically

How do I obtain the serial number of the installed Vista system? Also is there a tool that does the same thing so I can verify MY results?
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Problems during Migration from VS 2003 to VS 2008

I have converted one of my Visual studio 2003 projects into VS2008 and when trying to build the project in VS2008 I get the below mentioned error. In oledb.h, I have typedef LONG DBROWCOUNT; and in sybdb.h, I have #define DBROWCOUNT 16 When…
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