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  2. List of features removed in Windows Vista - Wikipedia

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    Windows Vista uses Package Manager (Pkgmgr.exe) and Windows Update Standalone Installer (Wusa.exe) to install software updates and hotfixes. However, these do not support the various command-line switches like Windows XP's Package Installer (Update.exe) did. [84] Much of the functionality from Update.exe is missing.

  3. List of features removed in Windows 7 - Wikipedia

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    In Windows Vista, column headers could be used to filter, group, sort, and stack items regardless of the active icon view mode. [1] Control Panel views are limited to Category, Small icons, and Large icons (which is actually Tiles view). List, Details, Extra large icons, Large icons, and Medium icons view modes are no longer available.

  4. Features new to Windows Vista - Wikipedia

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    Windows Vista introduces many new granular control policies for power schemes that were unavailable in previous versions of Windows. Users can change CPU cooling and CPU state options, idle timers for operating system events, network adapter settings, PCI Express link state settings, and USB selective suspension options. [ 78 ]

  5. Management features new to Windows Vista - Wikipedia

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    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 Vista servicing stack. Package Manager can also install updates to an offline Windows image, including updates, boot-critical device drivers, and language ...

  6. Control Panel (Windows) - Wikipedia

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    Control Panel has been part of Microsoft Windows since Windows 1.0, [1] with each successive version introducing new applets. Beginning with Windows 95, the Control Panel is implemented as a special folder, i.e. the folder does not physically exist, but only contains shortcuts to various applets such as Add or Remove Programs and Internet Options.

  7. List of features removed in Windows 11 - Wikipedia

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    File History can only be configured using the legacy Control Panel application, which does not support adding custom folders to the set of protected folders as the Settings app in Windows 10 did. [13] The option to simultaneously set a program as the default for all file associations it can handle is no longer available. [14]

  8. Development of Windows Vista - Wikipedia

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    The "Display Properties" control panel [5] was the first significant departure, being built on the new "Avalon" API. [6] It was the first sighting of the "Plex" style which Microsoft regarded as a placeholder theme for their development versions, until they were ready to demonstrate Aero.

  9. Windows Mobility Center - Wikipedia

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    Windows Mobility Center is located in the Windows Control Panel and also be launched by pressing the ⊞ Win+X keys in Windows Vista and 7. By default, WMC is inaccessible on desktop computers, but this limitation can be bypassed if one modifies the Windows Registry. [5]