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.

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Having IIS remote management problem with my vista machine managing Server 2008 IIS 7.5

I am trying to use IIS 7 Remote Management installed on Vista Ultimate SP1. Connection is to IIS 7.5 on Windows Server 2008 Webserver R2. Tried on both full & core install. When I connect up, the ...
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HOw to give static ip to router from window XP LAN

I have the USB modem internet connection. I am using ICS sharing in XP to share my internet connection. ON window XP LAN i have set up the LAN IP as 192.168.137.1 255.255.255.0 Now i have joined ...
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generating self signed SSL Certificate for apache on window vista

I do not have any idea about generating self signed SSL Certificate for apache on window vista, but I have to do that. So, can anybody help me? I want some link or some proper guide which can help me ...
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Windows Vista Recovery partition is Primary Drive (c:)

i've been given a laptop at work to stick Office 2010 on it. I've never seen this laptop before and just noticed that the RECOVERY drive is the c: drive. The d: drive is the hard drive. The thing is ...
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RAM disk for Vista 64-bit

I have a workstation with 8GB RAM running Vista 64-bit. I'd like to try running some small server VMs in a virtual RAM disk to see how much performance improves. I haven't made a RAM disk since my ...
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Find the PID of a running process in Windows?

I have several copies of a program running. I would like to find the PID for a particular one of these processes. I can identify the window which spawned the process (and there is only one process ...
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Remote Desktop to Vista Home Premium PCs

Is there a way of connecting via Remote Desktop to a Vista Home Premium system, or do I need to use VNC instead? Edit: I'm having a bad day with TLA's. Sorry
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Windows Vista MAK keys and Volume Licensing [duplicate]

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. ...
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removed laptop from domain and lost access to admin account

I just removed my vista laptop from domain, but now I cannot login in with local administrator as local admin account is disabled. I have only local user account that works. What can I do to get ...
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Wake on Lan in Sleep/Hybernate mode Vista [closed]

If I put my computer to sleep I can wake it up remotely for the first few minutes. However if I let it sleep for an hour or so I cannot wake it unless I type on the keyboard. Any idea how I can ...
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How to close port 80 in windows vista?

i have a virtual machine with OS server 2003 connection bridged i need to test if the webapplication on guest webserver will be available for users on the network, so i need to close port 80 on ...
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Can't Ping - Wireless network of home [closed]

This may seem like other ping problem, but I have tried a lot before posting it here. I have a linksys WRT54G - firmware v8.00.8. I have two laptops one windows vista (192.168.1.99) and Windows Xp (...
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How to create a local IIS site with encrypted wwwroot using EFS on Vista

I'm preparing a laptop to take with me while travelling, so all my user data is encrypted using EFS in case someone decides to steal it. I also need to set up a couple of local sites for development ...
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Problem accessing (previously working) personal subversion repository. Kaspersky suspected

I have a personal Subversion server, running just svn (not Apache) on the default port of my home computer, a Windows Vista Pro system. (The setup is more complex than that, due to a restrictive work ...
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Disabling process crash dialogs on Vista

A sequel of Disabling "MyApp has stopped working" dialog. What can I do so that no dialog appears when a process crashes? Update: If Windows Error Reporting is disabled, the dialog says "A problem ...
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What is a seamless way to migrate a user profile in vista?

What is the best way to migrate a user profile in Vista? I just tried the Vista Easy Transfer and found that it did not do everything I wanted it to do. I am trying to leave a leave a domain and ...
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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 ...
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Access Windows Boot Manager selector when timeout is set to 0?

I've installed Wubi onto a Windows Vista computer. I've also set the boot timeout to 0: bcdedit /timeout 0 However, now I can't figure out how to get the menu to come up at all! I read on the ...
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Recognizing a Computer on the Network But Unable to Connect

I am setting up a small office (about 5 machines) with no central server. It's pretty low-budget so I'm trying to work with what I have. Right now we have a few printers, but only one guy (connected ...
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Vista / 7 Base Filtering Engine Prevents All Incoming Connections

After last months batch of Windows updates, no one can RDP into their machines. Doing a bunch of testing turns up that you can't connect to ANY of the ports on the machine. Stopping the 'Base ...
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VNC from Windows to Mac freezing constantly [closed]

I'm trying to VNC into an OSX 10.4.11 box from Vista using RealVNC and TightVNC. I can connect successfully, but after a minute or so my VNC window freezes completely, while on the Mac the ...
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How to make sharing possible between two different subnet computers

I have USB drive Internet on my one laptop and I have enable the ICS on that and from LAN of laptop I am asharing Internet with router, which then used by other laptops The static ip of Laptop LAN is ...
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Disable UAC And Windows Security Center alerts under Vista Business

We have a few Windows Vista Business with User Account Control turned off (the reason is because those machines need to run a series of programs that do not work with UAC, the boxes have no Internet ...
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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 ...
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How to force Kill process in Vista? [closed]

Ok, I've tried in the task manager - it didn't worked. Then I've tried in command line by: taskkill /im name.exe /F And it says (it's a translation from polish, so it's not exact): ERROR: can't end ...
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Policy exception for Windows User Account Controls and Update.exe

So... Apparently Windows has a list of filenames that require extra rights to run, included in this list is Update.exe, which happens to be the name of the file I'd like my clients to run without ...
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Windows Vista /7 command line to launch the "Set up your microphone" wizard (or a mic test wizard)

I'm putting together instructions for our users to test their microphones. Vista and 7 changed the Sound Recorder so it doesn't play back sound. Hence it's not good for testing sound (they have to ...
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Performance problem in Vista Windows explorer if /SWAPRUN:NET is set on an executable

I have rather big executables (about 25-35 MB). Because I want my users to easily execute my application, I don't want them to install a bunch of DLL's, just xcopy-install is OK for me (and my ...
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How to copy a large file effectively?

I am copying a small number of large files between a Vista x64 SP1 workstation and a Windows 7 RC workstation. Windows says it will take 7 hours to copy 117GB of data from one computer to another over ...
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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 ...
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Vista: file browse/upload dialog crashes browser and Photoshop

Situation: Using a web browser, the user is trying to upload files to a website. Each time a file is selected, the browser crashes. Every time the browser prompts to Select A File for upload. The ...
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SBS 2008 - GPO not being applied on Vista clients

I'm having some terrible trouble with some GPO's. There are only three items we need: Map a network drive Copy an item to the local drive Create a desktop shortcut I've created these GPO's and ...
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Vista cmd.exe fails to run if users and/or auditors group not present

In the current environment there exists a policy where files within %system32% are only allowed to be owned by System and Administrators. An issue has arisen where after converting these permissions ...
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Is XP Home Edition good enough?

We (a small company) have just bought a couple of HP Minis for mail/web/office tools. The HP minis were preinstalled with XP Home Edition, and we are considering XP Professional or Vista Business. Do ...
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What is the best way to migrate data from a Vista laptop to a Win7 laptop?

I'm aware that windows has a transfer utility wizard but I have never used that. What's the best way to Migrate or transfer data to a new laptop? Will that utility provide everything I need? Does the ...
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How do I use Vista's "query process" with a long program name?

I'm trying to use Vista's process list utility to find a PID. You should be able to do this: query process program.exe What I'm finding is that if the program name is short (like above), it will ...
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How do I run a batch file on a local network as Administrator? (Vista)

I have a couple of batch files which must be run as Administrator. I can do so if they are on my machine, but when I put them on the network and then try to run them as Administrator, the command ...
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How do I get Oracle 11g to install on Vista when it gives an error about the listener port?

I'm trying to do an install of Oracle 11g.R2 taking the defaults, but the installers keeps generating and error message when trying to setup the listener. If I have the installer just install 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 ...
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Best way to upgrade Windows Vista to Windows 7 + change HD to SSD at the same time?

I've got a number of machines to upgrade from Vista to Win 7, but the users have an option of also replacing their platter drives with (smaller) SSD's. Ideally I'd like to do these at the same time ...
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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. ...
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Out of memory error while uploading file into a blob

I received a out of memory error SQL Error: 0, SQLState: 53200 from postgres while trying to upload a 10MB file into a single row with a column of blob-type bytea. Which configuration parameters ...
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Install a program from the network

In Windows there is a place under the Control Panel called Get Programs and Install a program from the network (in Win 7 at least), possibly a slightly different name in Vista, but it was there too. ...
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Windows update doesn't list update details, only the number of updates

My system is Vista Business 32 bits SP2. When I click "Windows update", I can see there are 2 available optional updates. If I click the link "2 optional updates are available" to see what the ...
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How to publish an intranet website on Vista 32 & IIS7

I am creating an intranet website on a Vista 32 machine with IIS7. On my machine it works great! However, when other users on our network try to connect to it they get an error saying "Oops! Internet ...
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My Vista's nslookup returns an ipv4 address for an ipv6 site

the command: nslookup ipv6.google.com doesn't work quite well. somtimes it returns an correct ipv6 address, sometimes it returns an ipv4 address. How can this happen? [im using OpenDNS] much ...
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How do I extract all the files in a VHD to a hard disk including permissions?

I'd like to know wha thte best way is to make an exact copy of a vhd image and pu tit onto my hard disk. I've tried xcopy but there seems to be a number of issues rlated to permissions when doing ...
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Vista Enterprise doesn't find logon servers in a network with 802.1x authentication

In a network with 802.1x configuration and a samba server configured in the domain, I have a radius server that delegates the authentication against the samba domain for users (using LDAP). The radius ...
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Sniffing at work- How to detect [closed]

Because of the place I work has some real issues (people) especially in IT and the owner, I wonder if we are being sniffed. Is there any way to tell if on a Vista 64-bit machine: 1) In system logs ...
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Backing up a Linux VPS with RSync to Vista

I've been working to setup a Linux VPS to host a couple of Wordpress sites and eventually a Mercurial server. I've setup one site and things have gone well. However, before I start moving other ...

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