Consider the following scenario. You downgrade the firmware of a device that supports MSI-X interrupts to firmware that only supports Legacy Line-based hardware interrupts.

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Consider the following scenario:

• On a computer that is running Windows Vista or Windows Server 2008, an application uses legacy methods to query performance counter values. For example, the application uses the RegQueryValueEx function to perform a global query for performance counter data.
• Counter data is returned from more than 64 counter sets that are registered by performance counter version 2.0 APIs. For example, the application performs a global query on a system on which more than 64 of these counter sets are registered.

In this scenario, the application may crash.

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Vista on a 1999 500mhz P3 with 512MB RAM? It would appear so. This week has had a lot of pro-Vista news on various fronts. Is the tide turning for Vista? Keep reading →

Consider the following scenario. A Portable Operating System Interface (POSIX) application declares a dependency on one or more legacy libraries. The legacy libraries are included with Utilities and Software Development Kit for Subsystem for UNIX-based Applications in Windows Vista. You run the application. In this scenario, you receive the following error message:

Library_name.so not valid NT PE file

When you install a software that adds legacy network drivers on a computer that is running Windows Vista, Windows Vista may stop responding.