You may experience one or more of the following symptoms on a Windows Vista-based or a Windows Server 2003-based computer that uses a Hewlett-Packard (HP) printer:

• When you try to install a printer, the Add Printer Wizard stops responding.
• The computer stops responding.
• The print spooler stops responding.
• The print spooler crashes, and you receive one of the following error messages, as appropriate for your situation.
  • When you use an administrator account
    

    Connect to Printer
    —————————–
    Windows cannot connect to the printer.
    Operation could not be completed (error 0x000006be).
    Either the printer name was typed incorrectly, or the specified printer has lost its connection to the server.
    For more information, click Help.

  • When you use a user account
    

    Connect to Printer
    —————————–
    Windows cannot connect to the printer.
    Operation could not be completed (error 0x000006be).
    You do not have sufficient access to your computer to connect to the selected printer.

If five or more monitors are attached to a Windows Vista computer, a video playback application such as Windows Media Player crashes.

Consider the following scenario:

• You are running a Windows XP-based computer.
• You create an End User Defined Character (EUDC) font.
• You deploy the EUDC font to a Windows Vista-based computer or to a Windows Server 2008-based computer.

In this scenario, you cannot enter the EUDC characters by using the Pinyin (phonetic) Input Method Editor (IME) or the Changjie IME.

This issue also occurs if you upgrade a Windows XP-based computer to Windows Vista.

In Windows Vista and in Windows Server 2008, software updates use a new technology to install .msu files. To manually install .msu files in a Windows Vista or Windows Server 2008 environment, you must have the Wusa.exe tool installed. However, this tool returns a “1 (S_FALSE)” error code when either of the following conditions is true:

• You try to install a software update that is already installed on the computer.
• You try to install a software update that does not apply to the computer.

When you play a video in a video playback application that uses Media Foundation on a computer that is running Windows Vista Service Pack 1 (SP1), you receive an error message. Additionally, the application crashes.

For example, when you play a video by using Media Center in full-screen mode, you receive the following error message:

Media Center has stopped working.

A problem caused the program to stop working correctly. Please close the program.

The TCP protocol uses a three-way handshake to establish a TCP connection. The last interaction in the three-way handshake is a TCP Acknowledgement (ACK) package. However, in Windows Vista, the Windows Filtering Platform (WFP) inspection occurs only after the three-way handshake is completed. Therefore, any data that is piggybacked on the ACK package may bypass the WFP inspection process.

Note: A payload can legitimately piggyback on the ACK package.

This issue affects socket applications that use NetBIOS communication on a Windows Vista-based computer.

When you tried to install Service Pack 2 on your Windows Vista machine, you received the following error message:

Error 1706. No valid source could be found

For more information on this issue, including potential causes, workarounds, and resolutions, see: AutoDesk Knowledge Base Article TS1085647.

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