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  2. 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.

  3. Management features new to Windows Vista - Wikipedia

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    Package Manager, part of the Windows Vista servicing stack, replaces the previous Package Installer ( Update.exe) and Update Installer ( Hotfix.exe ). Microsoft delivers updates for Windows Vista as files and resources only. Package Manager, Windows Update, and the Control Panel item to turn Windows features on and off, all use the 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.) about:dns: Displays the DNS records about:flags

  5. Features new to Windows Vista - Wikipedia

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    External display improvements. Windows Vista aims to simplify the detection, configuration, and installation of external displays by introducing a standardized setup procedure and interface with the new WDDM, which enables hot plug detection and alerts the new Transient Multimon Manager (TMM) for external display configuration when one is ...

  6. List of features removed in Windows Vista - Wikipedia

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    Selective pages of multi-page TIFF files cannot be printed from Windows Photo Gallery; all pages are printed. TIFF annotations cannot be edited or created in Windows Photo Gallery or Windows Live Photo Gallery. Support for animated .GIF files has been removed in Windows Photo Gallery which replaced the Windows Picture and Fax Viewer. Only the ...

  7. Technical features new to Windows Vista - Wikipedia

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    New monitor configuration APIs make it possible to adjust the monitor's display area, save and restore display settings, calibrate color and use vendor-specific monitor features. Overall too, Windows Vista is designed to be more resolution-independent than its predecessors, with a particular focus on higher resolutions and high DPI displays [2] .

  8. Distinguished Intelligence Medal - Wikipedia

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    CIA medals are sometimes referred to as "jock strap medals" since they are often awarded secretly (due to the classification level of the respective operation) and cannot be displayed or, on occasion, acknowledged publicly. See also. Awards and decorations of the United States government; References

  9. Maraş lion - Wikipedia

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    It was discovered on the citadel of Kahramanmaraş (formerly Maraş) in 1883 and is displayed in the Kahramanmaraş Archaeological Museum. John David Hawkins assigned it the name Maraş 1, while Winfried Orthmann used Maraş B/1. Massive sculptures of lions are a recurrent feature of Hittite art, especially in the Neo-Hittite period.