Windows Vista Help

I have a good source of Windows 7 & 10 Windows COA Genuine Disks from a vendor on EBay. I have had successful installs of every license so far. I am wondering since I have two Windows 10 Disks about to be installed on two current windows 7 machines…..and one older Windows Vista for Business Machine that I would like to move to a Windows 7 Machine. Can I take one of the Windows 7 Licenses and use it to move up the Vista for Biz….to 7 or do I have to buy another license of 7? These are all full install disks I think they were for brand new computers and not officially installed? I assume all are legal since they come with genuine stickers and the vendor has sold 1k+ disks with great reviews. This is probably a dumb question but as many of you know I will ask anything to verify with an expert. Spent too much time dealing with mistakes to know better not to.

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Question by

*** Hopeleonie ***

2019-01-24SolvedPrivate

Sysprep after each automatic restore

Hi

We have given an order to a small Client OEM System Builder to create 25 Clients with the same Image. They are new and have less experience.
I knew it is possible to create such an Image for Windows 7 as I worked for an OEM System Builder. Is it still possible to do this with a Windows 10 Build 1809 OEM? What we need is just to get a new SID and change the Computer name after each restore.

Thanks for helping me

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Question by

gudii9

2019-01-19Solved

save screenshots as jpeg

some windows 10 updates always changing options i set earlieron my laptop

like paint i always like to save as .jpeg rather than .png file

some thing got changed now again they are saving as .png

how to make default as .jpeg while saving some paint images , screenshots etc so that i do not consume lot of space and easy to email them also

please advise

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A customer brought in an hp Pavilion dv7-1245dx running windows vista and the issue is that when they start it up nothing will come on the screen for at least 15 minutes or so and then it will boot into windows fine and run fine. I removed the keyboard, hard drive, wifi card to see if that would make a difference but it is still the same. I did a bios update but that doesn't seem to help either. I also changed out the memory sticks. Nothing seems to help. I have not taken the MB out of the laptop yet. Can someone help me with this?

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I remember that Windows Vista or Windows 7 used to have a way where a user could request or establish a remote support session with tech using a feature built into Windows where the remote tech could actually interact with the user's session while the user watches and the wasn't limited to viewing a locked computer screen.

Is this still available in Windows 10?

If so how can this be done?

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Question by

Jason Johanknecht

2018-08-13Solved

Vista PC with LOCKED graphic

Had an Vista PC brought in to me today, with a scareware remote story. The computer is LOCKED (Pictures attached). Drive was pulled and no virus/malware/rootkit found. Ctrl+Alt+Del allows me to open task manager, but I cannot actually do anything with hit. The mouse is constrained to the middle of the screen away form Task Mgr, and keyboard input closes everything immediately and then reopens the locked password request. No actual Ransomware is found on the computer asking for money or providing a phone number or e-mail. No change when logging into Safe Mode of any flavor. Replacing registry from regback didn't solve it.
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Do we have FIle and Print sharing option in Windows Vista Starter

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Hi, I have a Windows task (Task Scheduler) that was set up and running fine some months back.. it collected stock market data daily at a specified time from yahoo. I disabled it for a while as I didn't need it, but recently I do again so I re-enabled it. It then wouldn't launch when it was supposed to daily, so I went and fiddled with the XML task file itself in the \Windows\System32\tasks folder. Ever since then, whenever I go into Task Scheduler it pops up an error windows saying that task is corrupt. It of course, won't run... but I think it is also preventing other tasks from running too. I just want to delete this old corrupted task and set it up again fresh, but it's no longer listed among the tasks. Should I just go and manually delete the XML file for it in \Windows\System32\tasks ?

Thanks
Shawn

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Need to rid it of viruses

How to do this

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I need the location of where I can download Windows Vista Home Premium 32-bit OS to use to restore a PC I am working on. I know there is a site where I can download the ISO and then burn it.
thanks in advance.

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Question by

ID10Tz

2017-11-30SolvedPrivate

from Vista to Win 10

Have an elderly user who bought a win 10 laptop and wants everything to be transferred and look the same from his Windows vista home premium laptop

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windows easy transfer doesn't work for win 10
just backing it up wont work

any ideas

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I recently imported a ton of photos to my Photos app in the Mac. There were about 12,000 photos. But when importing them, I've ended up with 36,000. ack! So I realized that this is what happened:

I used to have a Windows Vista computer. That's where these old pictures used to be stored. Now they're on a portable hard drive, but I wanted to add then to my Photos App so they will back up in the cloud.

Anyway,...

Here is what is see. If I have a picture name IM004244.JGP. Then there is a folder named IM004244.JPG.files in this folder there are two pictures as "vcm_s_kf_m160_160x120.jpg" and "vcm_s_kf_repr_640x480.jpg" these are identical pictures as IM004244 original (except different sizes).

I want to get rid of all that crap. Good grief, Vista sure knew how to mess things up.

This is what I'm seeing (see screenshot)

Messed up, isn't it?

This is what I've tried so far. I bought Gemini 2 to remove duplicates. The software just crashes after working a couple hours.

Also, I did a search on the SSD for all files called vcm_s_kf_m160_160x120.jpg and vcm_s_kf_repr_640x480.jpg and deleted them. (Note: I did this directly on the SSD and not via the Photo app). I don't think that has helped. My Photos app is very unstable now. It's probably trying to retrieve the lost files from iCloud.

What should I do next?

I'm thinking the best would be to restore the Photos app from the Time Capsule and start. If that's what you recommend how…

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I need a safe place to be able to download a second recovery disc for a gateway vista sp1 win home premium model # M-7801m s/n # LXWAW0X001912064E12500 32 bit
snip 9120582525. I'm disabled and have already spent too much trying to get someone to fix this problem so I thought maybe there was an easier way from someone online. Please help me if you can. I haven't a car and this computer that needs the repair is a rescue computer incase this one goes down. It is the only way I have to communicate to take care of my bills etc. I'd thank you eternally if there is an easy answer. I found a copy of vista online but it had no product key with it and I don't have a clue if it is the right version for a gateway.

Windows Vista

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Hello,

I just saw my wsus showing windows vista for windows 10 machines. I found hotfix for WIndows server 2012R2, but our wsus is 2008 R2.

Is there any work around?

Regards

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Hi

Can't seem to get this service pack to install on Windows Vista SP1 (french)

I disabled vLite in the registry because at first the installer considered that some update was missing

Now it installs but gives up before finishing and states that SP2 couldn't be installed
It suggests that I execute hotfix KB947821-v35-x86, which I do but this just installs itself and brings no improvement

any ideas ?

thanks
yann

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I have a PC with a Vista Home Premium license that I need an ISO for so that I can do some repair work. I cannot for the life of me find that anywhere around here. Can someone point me in the right direction, please?

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I have a x64 shell extension for the context menu, which works fine. Only problem is; the icon does not show on the context menu. I have tried both InsertMenu and InsertMenuItem, but the icon does not show. Is there something else I have to do to make the icon appear in Windows Vista forward?

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Hello, after an uninstalling software my TouchSmart IQ524 (Vista 64 bit) no longer starts due to a failure of the BIOS. Are you there a way to Flash the BIOS via USB, under MSDOS or LINUX?
Thanks for any information on this subject

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User was tricked at home, he took the whole bait and hook, paid $ to a fake Microsoft person and allowed them on his computer. Anyway after running some tools and removing malicious malware he still has on his desktop a fake phone number that shows on his Task bar area. This is a Vista O.S. how do I remove?
I will be reformatting the computer in a couple week.

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Hi,
I have a legacy application that is currently running on an old Vista machine, this machine is on its last legs and needs to be replaced, however the software vendor wants a silly amount of money for re-installing it onto a new machine. So...
I thought, if I could clone the machine onto a newer PC (dissimilar hardware) that would be a way round it for now, but, I am assuming when I do this that the OEM copy of Vista will go non-genuine and then wont reactivate. My question is, if i was to buy a retail version of Vista, could I re-activate the cloned OEM with the retail key as it would then in theory be licensed (as far as paying for it goes).
Hope this is clear! Any help gratefully received.
Cheers
Andrew

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Question by

Hello There

2017-05-03Solved

Windows Vista installation error

Hello.

I got a notebook (Acer, Vista Home Premium, 32-bit) from one user with a little problem. The PC was too slow to work and no cleanup helped so I decided to reinstall the system.

But I have not had any installation CD and I needed to do it fast so I used the builtin eRecovery Management function to get the system to its factory defaults.

Everything went fine but a few minutes later an error appeared. This error didn't appear in English so here is a cursory translation:

Unable to finish Windows installation. To install Windows, click OK to restart the computer and then restart the installation.

I restarted it three times but it didn't help. This error jumps on to the screen again and again.

What do you recommend to do?

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Question by

*** Hopeleonie ***

2017-04-23SolvedPrivate

Let users to install software without administrator rights

Hi

One of our customers need to give some few users the availability to install software under Windows 10 (Build 1703) as they are developers. The solution that most of my senior engineers are recommending is to create two users. One normal user and the other local administrator that have no other permission in the domain.

Two other engineers are telling to do it KIS (keep it simple). They both recommend to create one user, give it local administrator permissions and enable UAC. After they told me also to educate the users to be careful when the authentication prompt appears.

What would you recommend me?

Many thanks in advance.

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I want to create a certificate signing request using javascript on the client machine who is accesing my web page. I have done it for windows vista and windows 7. But this is not working in Windows 10 and Windows 8 and windows server 2012. Please help me to do this on other OS.

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I have a user who has a Vista computer. Yes I know they should toss it, but they cannot right now. The computer was recently re-installed with a 32 bit OEM dvd. The installation went very smoothly. We were able to download Firefox, Chrome, Malwarebytes and Apache open Office and install them. But when it comes to things like CCleaner and Superantispyware, we go to Downloads and double click but the wheel spins for two seconds goes away and nothing happens. I have tried some things like checking the exefile, and that seems to be okay. Any ideas?

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Anybody have any ideas on this issue? I'm melting my brain over here going over every nook and cranny I can find and feel like I need a fresh set of eyes, so-to-speak. The PC works just fine on a wireless connection that doesn't require a password to authenticate. I know I'm missing something super simple, but it's been a long morning.

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