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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VNC on Vista
I'm using UltraVNC on my Vista machine, and it's giving me very poor performance, even over a 300 mbs network. It seems to be doing screen polling.
I looked, and it doesn't look like the video hook ...
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Automaticly logon on and logoff
I use terminal services to manage a vista machines on a domain-less lan. After I am done with that session I would like Vista to re-login to the previous account.
How do I pull this off?
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Mount Vista Public Folder in Fedora
cant for the life of me remember how to access a public folder on vista from fedora
using SMB on Fedora. It seems to connect to the Vista box but not the location...
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Limiting Active Directory logons on a particular machine
My university is switching from a Novell based logon system to Active Directory. One of the 'features' IT is advertising is the ability for any user to log onto any machine. This is fine for ...
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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 ...
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On Windows Vista, is there a way to allow an application to always run with elevated permissions?
Here is the scenario, I have an application that requires elevated permissions to run on my Windows Vista based HTPC, but I don't want to disable UAC because the computer is always connected to the ...
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Does Windows Vista have app-level remoting or was I hallucinating?
I remember seeing a video a long while ago (before Vista was released) showing a method of remoting a single app rather than your entire desktop (allowing you to run remote and local apps side by side)...
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How can I add an existing OS install to the Windows Vista boot manager?
I had Windows Server 2003 installed on my primary hard drive. I then added a new hard drive and formatted/installed Windows Vista on the new hard drive. The old drive with Windows Server 2003 is still ...
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Why my Core2Duo 2.2GHz 4GB RAM w/Vista doesn't feel faster than my single-core PM 2GHz 2GB RAM running XP? [closed]
I've recently changed laptop and I would have expect it to be quite a lot faster, but it feels more or less the same? Is it just Vista? Will it be better with Win7?
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Vista's Unique Keyboard Shortcuts
I've always been a big fan of keyboard shortcuts, and one of my favorites was for times when I'd lost mouse control due to a deal battery and I needed to respond to something or other flashing in the ...
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Can I use RSync to reliably backup a Vista computer to a Linux server?
I've got a computer running Vista x64 with a standard user account, but I can elevate to administrator to install a service or RSync software. I want to backup by data drive (d:) to a server running ...
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Chkdisk won't run on Vista laptop
I have a laptop here running Windows Vista, and it's complaining about corrupt files. There are folders which I can't access. When I try and run chkdisk, it tells me I need to do this at the next ...
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What causes Vista to trigger startup of processes on wifi enabled?
On a Vista laptop with a on/off switch for Wifi, turning the switch on will trigger a lot of activity, killing performance and causing a lot of hard drive grinding.
The problem appears to be the auto-...
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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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Tool to Show Real Time Disk Usage in Windows (XP, Vista) [closed]
If you run Task Manager (or Process Explorer) and minimise it, it puts an icon in the icon tray which shows current processor usage as a little bar graph.
I would like to find a similar tool which ...
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VPN Client kills all connection while disconnecting
When my VPN Client (5.0.0.3) connection is lost after being idle OR I force it to disconnect when switching between my Colo and Office it always knocks out my normal connection for a second.
I'll ...
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How do I change the default location for a users home directory in Vista?
I would like to move the default location of my c:\Users\USERNAME to another drive. What is the easiest way to do this and how?
I know that I can move each of my "Special Folders" like Documents, ...
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Vista x64 - looking for 64bit signed bluetooth drivers for Broadcom BCM2045 chipset
I'm looking for 64bit signed bluetooth drivers for Broadcom BCM2045 chipset.
Drivers available for [AirLive BT-201USB](http://www.aienter code hererlive.com/product/product_3.jsp?pdid=PD1217409688986)...
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exFAT read-only after crash
After system crash my USB stick with exFAT gets read-only.
To revert it back to read-write I have to format it every time this happens.
I would rather have fixed it without formatting.
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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 "publisher cannot be verified" message
In windows Vista, when I run certain programs, Vista says:
The publisher cannot be verified, are you sure you want to run this software?
I believe this applies to software which has not been ...
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Getting Windows Vista to use our domain server's time
I am in charge of a small domain of 20 or so computers. I recently found how to get the windows XP machines to get their time from our domain controller using this batch file:
call w32tm /config /...
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Does Windows 7 RC upgrade seamlessly for Vista Ultimate?
I have Vista Ultimate x64 and am thinking of upgrading to the Windows 7 RC. I would like to know that others have perform this upgrade with success before trying it on my own development machine.
My ...
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Cisco VPN Client on Vista - Virtual Adapter
I have used the Cisco VPN client for years, and on XP it is pretty much rock solid, on Vista, not so much. You might be able to connect, but unless you set up a constant ping to something, it usually ...
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Elevating Windows installer in Vista
Vista requires elevated rights for installers which install drivers or other system items. Pointsec has one of these installers with the problem that the installer itself does not request elevation so ...
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What do I do if .NET Framework is not installing?
When I try to install .NET Framework 3.5 on Windows Vista 64bit Home Premium edition it did not work. The Windows Update error code was 643. How do I fix this problem and install it?
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Disconnect mapped drive with "Reconnect at logon" setting on Vista [closed]
How to disable the Reconnect at logon setting for a mapped network drive on Vista? How to disconnect already mapped drives?
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Changing from extended desktop to mirrored desktop on multiple monitors in Vista
Is there an easy way to change a laptop's external monitor (projector) from an extended desktop to a mirrored desktop in Windows Vista? On the current laptop we're trying it on, when we uncheck the "...
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Vista / Windows Server 2003 Mapped Drive Logon Failure
I have a Windows Vista (Ultimate) machine which connects to a Windows Server 2003 machine for just one thing: a mapped network drive.
There is a user account on the Server machine which exactly ...
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IPSec VPN on Vista
My company uses IPCop to configure it's VPN. We have an IPSec script that runs on Windows XP to open a connection using a security certificate for authentication. Microsoft totally changed things ...
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MS Office shortcuts in start menu don't work on Vista
In Vista (Business), the shortcuts that are automatically added to the start menu (for recently run programs) don't work for MS Office programs. You click on them and nothing happens.
Has anyone seen ...
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What are the most critical settings to tweak when setting up a new Windows Vista machine? [closed]
You've bought a new system. You install vanilla Windows Vista on the machine. What are the most important settings to tweak before using the system and why? Turn off User Account Control (UAC)? ...
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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 ...
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How do you diagnose a Windows PC that hangs on shutdown?
I have a Vista x64 PC that hangs intermittantly at shutdown (on the blue shutdown screen). Sometimes it shuts down normally; sometimes it sits on the shutdown screen forever.
Unfortunately I don't ...