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  2. List of features removed in Windows Vista - Wikipedia

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    Protected Storage (PStore) has been deprecated and therefore made read-only in Windows Vista. Microsoft recommends using DPAPI to add new PStore data items or manage existing ones. [35] However existing applications such as Outlook 2002 which used PStore are unable to save passwords as a result. Any application that tries to create new PStore ...

  3. Features new to Windows Vista - Wikipedia

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    Reader: provides read-only access to all shared resources; Contributor: provides read-only access to all shared resources, also allowing the sharee to add items and modify or delete the items they have added; Co-owner: allows the sharee to access, modify, or delete shared resources or resource permissions

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

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    Protected Storage (PStore) has been deprecated and therefore made read-only in Windows Vista. Microsoft recommends using DPAPI to add new PStore data items or manage existing ones. [28] Internet Explorer 7 and later also use DPAPI instead of PStore to store their credentials.

  5. List of features removed in Windows 7 - Wikipedia

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    Windows Import Video, a feature in Windows Vista which allowed one to import live or recorded video from a digital video camera and save it to the hard disk, has been removed. [62] The option in Windows Vista to send search queries (keywords) of searches performed in the Control Panel category view to Microsoft has been removed in Windows 7.

  6. Windows Registry - Wikipedia

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    Windows Vista introduced limited registry virtualization, whereby poorly written applications that do not respect the principle of least privilege and instead try to write user data to a read-only system location (such as the HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE hive), are silently redirected to a more appropriate location, without changing the application itself.

  7. Windows Vista - Wikipedia

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    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.

  8. Technical features new to Windows Vista - Wikipedia

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    The Windows UDF file system (UDFS) implementation was read-only in OS releases prior to Windows Vista. In Windows Vista, Packet writing (incremental writing) is supported by UDFS, which can now format and write to all mainstream optical media formats (MO, CDR/RW, DVD+R/RW, DVD-R/RW/RAM). Write support is included for UDF format versions up to ...

  9. Windows Ultimate Extras - Wikipedia

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    The company announced several Ultimate Extras in January 2007, but only a fraction of these were released five months later. [37] After months without an official update since January, Microsoft released an apology for the delays, stating that it intended to ship the remaining features before the end of summer of 2007. [ 37 ]