Top "Windows-vista" questions

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.

Robocopy - /XA:SH - to exclude system, hidden directories?

It seems to only work on files. Or am I doing something wrong? I tried backing a user folder (C:\…

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IIS does not list a website that matches the launch url

I need to debug the website i 'm developing (ASP.NET MVC3, Razor, .NET 4, VS2010 SP1 (as administrator)) in IIS7 (…

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Windows batch file starting directory when 'run as admin'

I have a batch file which is in a directory and must be run from there as well because it …

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Why is RegOpenKeyEx() returning error code 2 on Vista 64bit?

I was making the following call: result = RegOpenKeyEx(key, s, 0, KEY_READ, &key); (C++, Visual Studio 5, Vista 64bit). It …

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how to get process handle from process id?

I have process Id , I want to get its process handle. Is there any API available for that. I tried …

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Get SSID of the wireless network I am connected to with C# .Net on Windows Vista

I'd like to know if there is any .Net class that allows me to know the SSID of the wireless …

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Detect if running as Administrator with or without elevated privileges?

I have an application that needs to detect whether or not it is running with elevated privileges or not. I …

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How to list all symbolic links on an NTFS filesystem

since Windows Vista there is an new Win32-API call CreateSymbolicLink to create a symbolic link on the NTFS filesystem. …

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Why do files get placed in "C:\Users\<username>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 …

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How do I retrieve the version of a file from a batch file on Windows Vista?

Binary files have a version embedded in them - easy to display in Windows Explorer. How can I retrieve that …

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