Knowledge Base Articles for Windows Vista Add-ons A hotfix is available to install NetMeeting 3.02 on computers that are running Windows Vista Windows PowerShell 1.0 Installation Package for Windows Vista Visual Studio 2005 Service Pack 1 Update for Windows Vista release notes The Windows Help (WinHlp32.exe) program is no longer included with Windows operating systems starting with Windows Vista Windows NT Backup - Restore Utility Windows Mobile Device Center 6.1 (ActiveSync) for Windows Vista Core OS The system time lags when you restart a Windows Vista-based computer that supports High Precision Event Timer FIX: Windows-based applications that use the TZ environment variable may not work as expected because of changes to DST You may receive a "Stop 0x0000007E" error message after you enable the BitLocker Drive Encryption feature in Windows Vista Moveuser.exe is incompatible with Windows Vista and is replaced by the new Win32_UserProfile WMI functionality Error message when you try to install Windows Vista on a computer that uses more than 3 GB of RAM: "STOP 0x0000000A" You may be prompted to activate Windows Vista on a computer on which Windows Vista was already activated by a Volume License or OEM installation An update is available that improves the compatibility and reliability of Windows Vista An update is available that improves the performance and reliability of Windows Vista Core OS Subsystems March 2007 Windows Vista Application Compatibility Update An update is available for Windows Defender on Windows Vista Update for the Windows Vista Customer Experience Improvement Program The computer may respond very slowly as the Phishing Filter evaluates Web page contents in Internet Explorer 7 You may not find the file that you want when you use Advanced Search to search by date and you use a non-Gregorian calendar format in Windows Vista When you run Wusa.exe together with the /quiet option to try to install certain software packages on a Windows Vista-based computer, the installation fails Description of the Software Update for Web Folders: May 18, 2007
IDE/SATA Power consumption may be slightly more than expected on a portable Windows Vista-based computer that uses a SATA hard disk that does not support Host-Initiated Link Power Management An Ultra DMA Mode 5 device may perform only at the speed of an Ultra DMA Mode 2 device after you swap devices in Windows Vista A computer uses an SiI PATA chip does not recognize an attached optical drive as a drive that supports recording after you install Windows Vista Disk enumeration optimizations are disabled on certain Windows Vista-based computers that are using a hot swappable drive bay SATA optical drives are not available after you start a Windows Vista-based computer Networking You experience slow performance on a Windows Vista-based computer after you establish a VPN connection The default gateway setting is lost when you wake a Windows Vista-based computer from sleep You cannot use a remote access server to apply DHCP options to a Windows Vista-based computer You cannot access a shared network resource that is hosted by a Windows Vista-based computer if the SMB request packet exceeds the MTU size Error message when you try to connect to a shared resource from a Windows Vista-based client computer: "A device attached to the system is not functioning" Multimedia You may not receive audio in the desired language when you use Windows Media Center to view television in Windows Vista You may experience poor video quality when you use interlaced mode on a Windows Vista-based computer FIX: Subscription services cannot extract metering data when the services try to synchronize metering data on a client computer that is running the Windows Media Format 11 SDK Availability of the Windows Vista Secure Digital (SD) rollup package Files from a Canon EOD 1D or 1DS camera may be corrupted after you use Windows Photo Gallery or Windows Explorer to edit the file metadata in Windows Vista You receive a Stop 0x9F error when you wake a Windows Vista-based computer that is connected to an IEEE 1394-based device Power Management When you resume a Windows Vista-based computer from sleep, you may experience unexpected behavior from a USB device The "Allow hybrid sleep" option is intermittently missing from the Advanced Settings tab of the Power Options dialog box in Windows Vista A Windows Vista-based computer stops responding when you resume the computer from hibernation Stop errors occur on a Windows-based computer that has 2GB or more of RAM and is using an NVIDIA nForce USB controller A Bluetooth device may no longer work correctly when you wake a Windows Vista-based computer from sleep Power consumption increases when you run a WPF-based program that runs an animation in Windows Vista A high definition audio device may no longer work after you resume Windows Vista from sleep or from hibernation and then restart the computer USB The Safely Remove Hardware feature and the Windows Explorer "Eject" command do not work correctly with an Apple iPod that is connected to a Windows Vista-based computer Error message on a Windows Vista-based computer that is running a USB composite device: "STOP 0x000000FE" When you connect a USB multifunction printer device to a Windows Vista-based computer, a second instance of the printer object is created, and the first instance no longer works This list is based on the list by Aaron Tiensivu available here:
Add-ons
A hotfix is available to install NetMeeting 3.02 on computers that are running Windows Vista
Windows PowerShell 1.0 Installation Package for Windows Vista
Visual Studio 2005 Service Pack 1 Update for Windows Vista release notes
The Windows Help (WinHlp32.exe) program is no longer included with Windows operating systems starting with Windows Vista
Windows NT Backup - Restore Utility
Windows Mobile Device Center 6.1 (ActiveSync) for Windows Vista
Core OS
The system time lags when you restart a Windows Vista-based computer that supports High Precision Event Timer
FIX: Windows-based applications that use the TZ environment variable may not work as expected because of changes to DST
You may receive a "Stop 0x0000007E" error message after you enable the BitLocker Drive Encryption feature in Windows Vista
Moveuser.exe is incompatible with Windows Vista and is replaced by the new Win32_UserProfile WMI functionality
Error message when you try to install Windows Vista on a computer that uses more than 3 GB of RAM: "STOP 0x0000000A"
You may be prompted to activate Windows Vista on a computer on which Windows Vista was already activated by a Volume License or OEM installation
An update is available that improves the compatibility and reliability of Windows Vista
An update is available that improves the performance and reliability of Windows Vista
Core OS Subsystems
March 2007 Windows Vista Application Compatibility Update
An update is available for Windows Defender on Windows Vista
Update for the Windows Vista Customer Experience Improvement Program
The computer may respond very slowly as the Phishing Filter evaluates Web page contents in Internet Explorer 7
You may not find the file that you want when you use Advanced Search to search by date and you use a non-Gregorian calendar format in Windows Vista
When you run Wusa.exe together with the /quiet option to try to install certain software packages on a Windows Vista-based computer, the installation fails
Description of the Software Update for Web Folders: May 18, 2007
IDE/SATA
Power consumption may be slightly more than expected on a portable Windows Vista-based computer that uses a SATA hard disk that does not support Host-Initiated Link Power Management
An Ultra DMA Mode 5 device may perform only at the speed of an Ultra DMA Mode 2 device after you swap devices in Windows Vista
A computer uses an SiI PATA chip does not recognize an attached optical drive as a drive that supports recording after you install Windows Vista
Disk enumeration optimizations are disabled on certain Windows Vista-based computers that are using a hot swappable drive bay
SATA optical drives are not available after you start a Windows Vista-based computer
Networking
You experience slow performance on a Windows Vista-based computer after you establish a VPN connection
The default gateway setting is lost when you wake a Windows Vista-based computer from sleep
You cannot use a remote access server to apply DHCP options to a Windows Vista-based computer
You cannot access a shared network resource that is hosted by a Windows Vista-based computer if the SMB request packet exceeds the MTU size
Error message when you try to connect to a shared resource from a Windows Vista-based client computer: "A device attached to the system is not functioning"
Multimedia
You may not receive audio in the desired language when you use Windows Media Center to view television in Windows Vista
You may experience poor video quality when you use interlaced mode on a Windows Vista-based computer
FIX: Subscription services cannot extract metering data when the services try to synchronize metering data on a client computer that is running the Windows Media Format 11 SDK
Availability of the Windows Vista Secure Digital (SD) rollup package
Files from a Canon EOD 1D or 1DS camera may be corrupted after you use Windows Photo Gallery or Windows Explorer to edit the file metadata in Windows Vista
You receive a Stop 0x9F error when you wake a Windows Vista-based computer that is connected to an IEEE 1394-based device
Power Management
When you resume a Windows Vista-based computer from sleep, you may experience unexpected behavior from a USB device
The "Allow hybrid sleep" option is intermittently missing from the Advanced Settings tab of the Power Options dialog box in Windows Vista
A Windows Vista-based computer stops responding when you resume the computer from hibernation
Stop errors occur on a Windows-based computer that has 2GB or more of RAM and is using an NVIDIA nForce USB controller
A Bluetooth device may no longer work correctly when you wake a Windows Vista-based computer from sleep
Power consumption increases when you run a WPF-based program that runs an animation in Windows Vista
A high definition audio device may no longer work after you resume Windows Vista from sleep or from hibernation and then restart the computer
USB
The Safely Remove Hardware feature and the Windows Explorer "Eject" command do not work correctly with an Apple iPod that is connected to a Windows Vista-based computer
Error message on a Windows Vista-based computer that is running a USB composite device: "STOP 0x000000FE"
When you connect a USB multifunction printer device to a Windows Vista-based computer, a second instance of the printer object is created, and the first instance no longer works
This list is based on the list by Aaron Tiensivu available here: