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URLS for VistaSP2 (pre-SP3) nonWU Hotfixes


smartie77

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Official Links to Vista and Server08 Fixes that are labeled ServicePack 3 at Microsoft.

Need to have a fully up to date Vista / Server 2008 SP2 in order to install . Please read the respecting KB-articles if you have the problems that are described.

Updated 24-July-2010 : marked with an (NEW) tag

(NEW) AERO The SetPixel function fails in specific x-coordinates if Windows Aero is not running on a Computer that either has Aero turned off or runs a non-Aero Vista Edition such as HomeBasic or Starter

(NEW) OS MULTIMEDIA / UI / BURN The CD drive or the DVD drive is missing from the "Send To" shortcut menu and from the Recording tab of the drive properties after you erase a disc

(NEW) OS MULTIMEDIA / BURN 0xC0AA0007 error is returned when an application uses IMAPI v2 to burn some data to a recordable disc

(NEW) OS MULTIMEDIA WMP Windows Media Player 11 ( or other wmv players ) cannot play DRM protected content that uses Multiple Bit Rate ( MBR ) codecs .

(NEW) OS MULTIMEDIA WMP Windows Media Player 11 cannot play audio or video content from an .asx playlist in Windows Vista

(NEW) OS MULTIMEDIA Windows Media Foundation Applications cannot play custom asx streams on Windows Vista

(NEW) OS MULTIMEDIA / STABILITY When you run an application that uses the Media Archive Service on Vista, the application crashes. After you restart the application, the audio for some recordings is lost. For example, you may encounter the problem in the Live Meeting service.

(NEW) MEMORYLEAK / MULTIMEDIA A memory leak occurs when you use a DirectShow-based application to play Motion JPEG-encoded (MJPEG ) media files

(NEW) OS CORE A hotfix for Windows Installer 4.5 in Windows Vista fixes various problems when installing or upgrading programs.

(NEW) OS STABILTY Applications that use MSXL6 uses 100 % of the CPU

(NEW) OS 64bit Fix WOW64 Redirection Errors on Vista 64bit

(NEW) OS 64bit Fix A 32-bit Removable Storage application does not load on a computer that is running 64-bit vista

(NEW) OS 64bit Fix The 32-bit printer driver and the PushPrinterConnections.exe utility are available for Windows Vista and for Windows Server 2008

(NEW) OS CORE UI The desktop is not refreshed when you rename and then immediately delete a file on the desktop

(NEW) OS CORE UI In Windows Vista or in Windows Server 2008, when there are right-aligned tabs, the tabs are misaligned in an application that uses rich edit controls

(NEW) OS CORE / NTFS Vista SP2 stops responding when an application uses the NTFS sparse files

(NEW) OS CORE / NTFS you are incorrectly prompted to format the volume when a formatted volume is mounted on a NTFS folder on a vista based pc

(NEW) OS CORE Eror message on a client computer that is running Windows Vista or Windows Server 2008: "ERROR_NOT_LOCKED (158)"

(NEW) OS CORE No Cancel button appears when you unlock a Windows Vista-based computer : "Password expired"

(NEW) OS NET / WLAN Vista cannot use EAP authentication for wireless networks

(NEW) OS NET / INTERNET Vista cannot resolve numeric hosts

(NEW) OS NET / VPN You cannot make a VPN connection even if you enter a correct PIN after you entered an incorrect PIN on a computer that is running Windows Server 2008 or Windows Vista

(NEW) OS WU MU Windows Update in Vista fails with the Error "0x80070490"

(NEW) OS NET /WORKGROUP Write error when you upload files into a shared folder that is hosted on Vista

(NEW) OS NET / AD / WORKGROUP You cannot start a remote application or connect to a remote computer on Forefront Unified Access Gateway

WPF based NET framework application experiences different memory leaks with Dot NET 3 5 SP1 installed (Vista : Windows6.0-KB981107 and NDP30SP2-KB981107 )

In .NET 3.5 SP1, performance problems (such as CPU consumption and generally sluggishness) were especially noticeable when scrolling within an application that contains many visual elements - this is a performance fix for Vista with dotnet 3.5 sp1 installed ( NDP30SP2-KB978520 and Windows6.0-KB978520-v2 )

WPF in Vista : Fix for various Graphics crashes and Memory leaks ( NDP30SP2-KB967634 and Windows6.0-KB967634-v3 )

if a heavy load situation exists or if connectivity issues exist: Bluescreen "STOP: 0x000000B8"

The right side of the first page of a printed .eml file may be truncated if Internet Explorer 8.0 is installed on Vista

.lnk shortcut does not work correctly when you click the shortcut under the Favorites menu. If Internet Explorer 8 is installed.

An application or a service that uses the Wmiaprpl.dll module crashes when the application or the service enumerates the returned performance objects under the HKEY_PERFORMANCE_DATA registry key

Vista Enterprise/Ultimate with Subsystem for Unix installed : The input or output stream is redirected incorrectly in a Korn shell

Some data is corrupted when cached and noncached I/O operations occur by using the same NTFS file handle

Server2008 only : STOP: 0x0000001a" error on a computer that has an Intel Westmere processor together with the Hyper-V role

nonpaged pool memory leak occurs when you use a WFP callout driver in Windows Vista.WFP Callout Drivers are used in 3rd party Firewall and Antivirus Applications

command "netsh interface ipv4 dump" does not export the subnet mask

SMBv2 Server does not respond to certain FSCTL_SRV_NOTIFY_TRANSACTION requests from Vista clients

WFP drivers may cause a failure to disconnect the RDP connection to a multiprocessor computer

Exceptions that are thrown from an application that runs in a 64-bit version of Windows are ignored

PCI devices are unexpectedly enabled after you resume a Windows Vista system from hibernation

X64 Vista update enables the OS to take advantage of the Enhanced C1 state (C1E) for lower power consumption offered by multicore processors.

slow performance when you render .jpg files on a computer that is running an x64-based version of Windows Vista SP2

Audio redirection feature for the Macintosh RDP clients is not enabled on the x64 editions of Windows Server 2008 or of Windows Vista.

Virtual Disk Service (VDS) crashes when you try to extend a dynamic volume in an NTFS file system on a Vista computer

Changes are not committed to the SharePoint server when you use WinWord.exe on Vista to save a document : "File is read only".

Black and white pixels unexpectedly appear on the right side of the screen when you run Windows Media Center in full-screen mode

Only the header and footer information in an XPS document are printed

MIB interface information that is collected by the IP Helper API is blank or incomplete

ambiguous IPv6 address in Vista

STOP 0x00000050 PAGE_FAULT_IN_NONPAGED_AREA while using SMB connections on Vista.

PostScript printer does not print a document that contains multiple paper sizes correctly on Vista

high CPU usage when a full-speed USB 2.0 audio device is connected to the Root Hub of a High-Speed CPU Bus

memory leak issue occurs in the Audiodg.exe process when you play audio on Vista

You install two third-party Windows Filtering Platform (WFP) callout drivers. Computer may crash and / or blue screen. WFP Callout Drivers are used in 3rd party Firewall and Antivirus Applications.

A memory leak occurs when you use a WFP callout driver in Windows Vista

File corruption may occur if you run a program that uses a file system filter driver in Vista. Filter Drivers are used for example in 3rd party encryption Software.

Logoff process stops responding after you create a logoff Group Policy script on a client computer that is running Windows Vista and has the Tablet PC Input Service running.

A memory leak may occur when you use the Microsoft ActiveX Data Objects Library in Windows Vista to query ADODB streams.

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