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.

How can I/O priority of a process be increased?

I want to increase the I/O priority of a process. Answers for both .NET and Windows Vista would be …

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Windows shortcut (.lnk) parser in Java?

I'm currently using Win32ShellFolderManager2 and ShellFolder.getLinkLocation to resolve windows shortcuts in Java. Unfortunately, if the Java program is …

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programmatically kill a process in vista/windows 7 in C#

I want to kill a process programmatically in vista/windows 7 (I'm not sure if there's significant problems in the implementation …

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netsh http add urlacl : add reservation for a group

This article explain how to configure a namespace reservation for a user using netsh.exe as follows: netsh http add …

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How to detect if a Windows version is legal or not?

I'm not interested in getting version information. All I want to do is to make sure my application will only …

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Avoid "program stopped working" in C#/.NET

I have a console application written in C#/.NET that I want to run from a script (nant). If an …

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Get HDD (and NOT Volume) Serial Number on Vista Ultimate 64 bit

I was once looking for getting the HDD serial number without using WMI, and I found it. The code I …

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How do I determine which C/C++ compiler to use?

I am trying to figure out which C/C++ compiler to use. I found this list of C/C++ compilers …

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How to programmatically derive Windows Downloads folder "%USERPROFILE%/Downloads"?

In .NET, we can retrieve the paths to 'special folders', like Documents / Desktop etc. Today I tried to find a …

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How can i see the assembly version of a .NET assembly in Windows Vista and newer (WIndows 7, 2008)?

In windows 2003 and windows XP you could right click on an assembly (.dll) go to properties, click on the version …

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