10 Things You Might Not Know About Windows Vista

re: 10 Things You Might Not Know About Windows Vista

Brutos — Thu, 30 Aug 2007 11:14:38 GMT

Microsoft has a SSH client, and Server: Try Interix alias SUA.

re: 10 Things You Might Not Know About Windows Vista

Nick White — Wed, 01 Aug 2007 23:57:42 GMT

Hey wilmamorrow and habrured: this isn't the best place for tech support -- you should instead direct your inquiries to the Windows Vista newsgroups: http://windowshelp.microsoft.com/communities/newsgroups/en-us/default.mspx.

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wilmamorrow — Wed, 01 Aug 2007 20:29:12 GMT

Can anyone help me with this? I am going nuts.... I have Vista and I regret I bought it. I lost the use of my iTunes and my music.

Problem signature:

Problem Event Name: APPCRASH

Application Name: iTunes.exe

Application Version: 6.0.4.2

Application Timestamp: 43fddb0c

Fault Module Name: QuickTimeStreamingAuthoring.qtx

Fault Module Version: 7.2.0.240

Fault Module Timestamp: 4684a83a

Exception Code: c0000005

Exception Offset: 00016c09

OS Version: 6.0.6000.2.0.0.768.3

Locale ID: 1033

Additional Information 1: 18fe

Additional Information 2: f42ba5cd8b2ed31f18b99a5ea46137af

Additional Information 3: 4735

Additional Information 4: ae0a749503b699b3b75d581a3dbfd557

And same goes for Quick Time Player

Problem signature:

Problem Event Name: APPCRASH

Application Name: QuickTimePlayer.exe

Application Version: 7.2.0.240

Application Timestamp: 4684a211

Fault Module Name: QuickTimePlayer.exe

Fault Module Version: 7.2.0.240

Fault Module Timestamp: 4684a211

Exception Code: c0000005

Exception Offset: 0008c434

OS Version: 6.0.6000.2.0.0.768.3

Locale ID: 1033

Additional Information 1: 5b83

Additional Information 2: 97f9b2524221a445e15b8916e4821483

Additional Information 3: 4f0f

Additional Information 4: 3000f335e7d2de436a8193604f3d0377

I read only about the problem and no one seams to be able to fix it.

re: 10 Things You Might Not Know About Windows Vista

habrured — Sat, 28 Jul 2007 00:04:47 GMT

I still cannot find anything - yes or no - on not being able to access Internet Explorer help on any prigram including IE7

Is this a limitation or is there a way to do what I need in order to upload web-sites etc??

re: 10 Things You Might Not Know About Windows Vista

Nick White — Tue, 17 Jul 2007 20:25:12 GMT

Hey shollomon: I'm not sure what you're referring to, but our site is run on Community Server, so I'd direct the question to that team: www.communityserver.org.

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shollomon — Fri, 13 Jul 2007 01:57:33 GMT

Does bbcode work on this site? It says it does in the FAQ.

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shollomon — Thu, 12 Jul 2007 22:41:37 GMT

When talking about user pictures I'm talking about the pictures that appear on the start menu (here's mine)

[img]html://southofdallas.com/stuff/user_pic.png[/img]

Why couldn't we have an option to display that or not?

re: 10 Things You Might Not Know About Windows Vista

shollomon — Thu, 12 Jul 2007 19:07:21 GMT

Herr Professor,

Thanks for your answers. I am particularly interested in answer 8 regarding SFTP. In Control Panel=> Turn Windows Features on or off I have the option to turn on a TFTP (Trivial File Transfer Protocol) Client but not an SFTP (Secure File Transfer Protocol) Client or the underlying service it is associated with SSH (Secure Shell). The only ways I can find to use SSH or SFTP in Windows to connect to my servers is to use applications like PuTTY and WinSCP. If I have mis-understood or missed something in general please correct me.

Of all the stuff that's available in Vista for interacting with *nix systems, from LPD print services, to an NFS client, to the subsystem for Unix based applications, SSH/SFTP would have been the first thing I would have included functionality for.

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Professor P — Wed, 11 Jul 2007 16:16:22 GMT

shollomon-

10) I imagine because that is kind of a personalisation thing, and the logon screen is used for all users. Though, not sure.

9) Not sure about that.

8) There is, you have to enable it. In the control panel search box type "windows features", then select "Turn Windows Features On/Off" - SFTP is under

7) I think a fix for that is due for that, feedback ID 252302)

6) I think they're only used in the home editions (where you don't have to type a username) so you can easilly diferenciate between users. I think the start menu use is because well, what else can go there when nothing is highlighted?

5) Good question, dunno.

4) I think that's a bug, really. Report it.

3) I personally haven't noticed. Try changing your power options.

2) I think that's a good idea - I think it just hasn't been thought of, really.

1) Official word: Beta before the end of the year. Word on 'the street': beta next week, release in november (so I've heard)

re: 10 Things You Might Not Know About Windows Vista

shollomon — Mon, 09 Jul 2007 01:37:13 GMT

Mark number 1 off the list, maybe. Mary Jo Foley over at ZDnet is reporting SP1 Beta on July 16 and Gold in November. With a purported fix for the slow copy problem I noted in number 7. Ask and it shall be leaked.

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terri — Thu, 05 Jul 2007 21:13:15 GMT

sholloman, you've asked some interesting questions. I haven't seen some of the issues you're reporting, but I'll see what I can find out.

re: 10 Things You Might Not Know About Windows Vista

Nick White — Thu, 05 Jul 2007 20:59:10 GMT

Hey shollomon: thanks for this list of suggestions; we'll look into all of the topics you list, but know that a number of them (SP1 release date, for one) are still in flux. However, know that we'll cover the advances included in SP1 in detail here on the blog when the time comes.

re: 10 Things You Might Not Know About Windows Vista

shollomon — Thu, 05 Jul 2007 19:02:42 GMT

I use Vista Ultimate as my primary operating system and here are the

Top Ten Things I'd like to Know About Vista

10) Why do changing little things like the logon screen background require a third party program?

9) Why is there not at least an ssh client built in to Vista?

8) Related to 8, why is there no support for sftp in Vista/Explorer?

7) Why does Vista take much longer to copy files from one directory to another on the same hard drive than XP did?

6) Why can't I get rid of the cheesy log in pictures and the user picture in the start menu?

5) How do you ?mount? an ftp location as a "letter drive"?

4) Why does installing programs result in menu items owned by Administrator (which makes them heck to move around)?

3) Why does Vista have about 30% worse battery life on the same hardware with similar power settings as XP?

2) Why the heck is is a good idea to bury icons in dll's instead of putting them in a folder labled something like icons?

And the number one thing I'd like to know about vista is:

1) When is SP1 scheduled for release.

Thanks.

re: 10 Things You Might Not Know About Windows Vista

Nick White — Tue, 03 Jul 2007 01:23:21 GMT

Hey TimSmithCA: you're right, some of these features do require an upper-end version of Windows Vista. But, several of them are in fact available in Home Basic, such as the Snipping Tool, Photo Gallery, Sidebar and the Preview Pane. I hear you on this point, however, and will consider your suggestion for a future article -- thanks for reading.

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Nick White — Mon, 02 Jul 2007 23:31:31 GMT

Hey Jonathan Wienke: It sounds to me as though something's corrupted in your shell, as you should not be having that experience; all checkboxes work on my 3 systems just fine, among the other things you mention.

This may help: In a folder, click one checkbox, then shift and click the last one; you'll note that they all select. And, Control-A selects all folders. If you click the 'Name' bar in a folder it inverts your selections; same with 'Date modified'.

Hope this helps -- if it doesn't, you might look into a system restore or other measure to bring things back to normal, as it may be that the shell is corrupted.