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  2. List of features removed in Windows Vista - Wikipedia

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    Unlike previous versions of Windows, Windows Vista does not display a progress indicator during hibernation. Microsoft states that this is by design. Windows Vista does display a progress indicator after resuming from hibernation, but it is an indeterminate progress bar instead of a determinate progress bar used in previous versions of Windows.

  3. Windows Vista - Wikipedia

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    Windows Vista. Windows Vista is a major release of the Windows NT operating system developed by Microsoft. It was the direct successor to Windows XP, released five years earlier, which was then the longest time span between successive releases of Microsoft Windows.

  4. about URI scheme - Wikipedia

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    Displayed when the browser cannot connect to the target URL, this page contains an Easter Egg: Pressing the Space Bar key starts the _Dino_ minigame, which involves making a dinosaur jump over obstacles. Microsoft Edge doesn't feature this page, having replaced it with about:surf (see below.) [12] about:dns: Displays the DNS records about:flags

  5. Wikipedia : Naming conventions (technical restrictions)

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    Restrictions on page titles are listed at Wikipedia:Page name § Technical restrictions and limitations. The most commonly encountered problems are that: titles cannot begin with a lowercase letter; titles cannot contain certain restricted characters. There are two basic ways of handling a situation where the desired title of a page is ...

  6. File Explorer - Wikipedia

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    Shell, file manager. File Explorer, previously known as Windows Explorer, is a file manager application and default desktop environment that is included with releases of the Microsoft Windows operating system from Windows 95 onwards. It provides a graphical user interface for accessing the file systems, as well as user interface elements such ...

  7. Development of Windows Vista - Wikipedia

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    The development of Windows Vista (codenamed Longhorn) began in May 2001, [1] prior to the release of Microsoft 's Windows XP operating system, and continued until November 2006, where it was eventually released to manufacturing. Windows Vista was then released generally to retail on January 30, 2007.

  8. Security and safety features new to Windows Vista - Wikipedia

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    Windows Vista binaries include intrinsic support for detection of stack-overflow. When a stack overflow in Windows Vista binaries is detected, the process is killed so that it cannot be used to carry on the exploit. Also Windows Vista binaries place buffers higher in memory and non buffers, like pointers and supplied parameters, in lower memory ...

  9. Technical features new to Windows Vista - Wikipedia

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    Windows Vista. Windows Vista (formerly codenamed Windows "Longhorn") has many significant new features compared with previous Microsoft Windows versions, covering most aspects of the operating system. In addition to the new user interface, security capabilities, and developer technologies, several major components of the core operating system ...