Questions tagged [windows-vista]
For questions specific to Windows Vista. Use [windows] instead for questions involving Windows in general.
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How to enable usb port using Windows Vista?
I have 2 usb ports one on each side of my laptop. The one on the left is ENABLED but the one on the right side isn't,how do i enable it?
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How to access NAS files when disk moved to tower PC as second HD
Hopefully someone can help.
My NAS Lacie Networkspace2 has (almost) died.
I took the drive out of its casing and placed it as a second drive in a Dell XPS tower with Windows Vista (I know... but try ...
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DISM doesn't work for Windows Vista image
I was trying to add the Spanish language pack and remove the English LP to Windows Vista Ultimate x64 SP2 iso file.
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The OS installed on my PC is Windows 7 ...
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Converting analog audio to digital
I'm doing an amateur conversion, on the cheap, of some old cassette tapes to digital (bootlegs and other stuff that can't be found online...)
As their quality is not great to begin with, would like to ...
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Set German keyboard layout for 16 Bit applications
When I run 16 Bit applications (such as QBASIC and edit.com) on Windows Vista or Windows 7, 16 Bit applications are using the keyboard layout of American keyboards. I want them to use the German ...
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Windows Vista 32 bit doesn't boot in Normal Mode. Only boots in Safe mode
I own a laptop that has Windows Vista 32 bit installed in it. I have been unable to switch it on in normal mode for a day now. When I try to switch it on in the said mode, Microsoft Corporation is ...
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Identify CPU usage by thread or service [duplicate]
How can I analyze the CPU usage that is associated with a Windows thread or service? Sometimes my dual processor CPU will show 49% CPU usage for task SVCHOST - for example, yesterday it used 49% for ...
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Windows Vista is booting with wrong drive letter
Windows Vista is booting with wrong drive letter. Instead of booting with drive letter C:, it is getting drive letter D: and thus fails to login to a user profile.
This situation happened because I ...
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How do I disable registry backup in Vista?
There are no such tasks in Task Scheduler, but C:\windows\config\regback folder occupies 100 MB of space and if I delete it, then it appears again.
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Is it safe to delete files in WinSxS with no hard-links under Vista? [duplicate]
The question is not a duplicate. It's specific for the case of Windows Vista where there's no OS-provided method for reducing the size of the WinSxS folder (as opposed to Windows 7 and later, where ...
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How to filter out folder items in Windows search under Vista? [duplicate]
I want to search for files in an entire directory tree, but I don't want to see folders in the results. I want to see only files.
How can I exclude folders from showing up in the results under ...
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Visual Studio for Windows Vista
Is it possible to install Microsoft Visual Studio 2012 (or higher) on Windows Vista (x86)? I already installed Visual Studio 2010 Express, but I need a higher version to build android apps with it.
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Downgrading NTFS version
I've created NTFS partition under Windows 8.1. Disk is not recognized by Windows Vista now. How can I downgrade NFTS version to make it mountable under both win 8.1 and Vista?
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Stability of `start /wait` in batchfiles
This question is related to previous question
The previous question was about the problem, this one about a possible solution.
I'm working with a group of virtual machines, using "runProgramInGuest", ...
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Replace "CopyFileFromGuestToHost" and "runProgramInGuest" by xcopy and simple execution, what can I expect
My company is working with virtual machines. Those are managed, using a central host who connects to different virtual machines (using ESX virtual machines handling technology).
One of those virtual ...
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