Virtual Disk Service: A set of application programming interfaces (APIs) that provides a single interface for managing disks. VDS provides an end-to-end solution for managing storage hardware and disks, and for creating volumes on those disks.

Consider the following scenario. You configure a computer that is running Windows Vista or Windows Server 2008 to use the pen service (Wisptis.exe). Then, you restart the computer. In this scenario, an access violation occurs during startup. When the access violation occurs, the Wisptis.exe process exits, and you receive an error message that resembles the following:

Microsoft Tablet PC Input Component was closed
To help protect your computer, Data Execution Prevention has closed Microsoft Tablet PC Input Component. Click to learn more.

Consider the following scenario:

• You have a Windows Server 2008-based print server.
• This print server has many Windows Vista-based printer clients.

In this scenario, the memory usage of the Print Spooler service increases over time. For example, assume that you have several thousand printer clients that connect to the print server. Eventually, the print server becomes unresponsive, and you must restart the server to recover from this problem.

Consider the following scenario:

• You create a managed service that uses the Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0.
• You run the managed service on a computer that is running the .NET Framework 2.0.

In this scenario, the managed service is not stopped in a timely manner on the computer when the operating system shuts down. Therefore, you may experience delays when the operating system shuts down.

On a computer that is running Windows Vista, an Indexing Service query that uses the LIKE predicate returns an incorrect result. For example, when you use the following query clause to query for files whose names contain the “doc” string, the result may include some files whose names do not contain the “doc” string.

SELECT Filename FROM Scope() WHERE filename LIKE '%doc%'

Note: This problem does not occur on a computer that is running Windows XP.

When you start a Windows Vista-based computer that has more than one TV tuner, you receive the following error message:

Windows Media Center Receiver Service stopped working and was closed. A problem caused the application to stop working correctly. Windows will notify you if a solution is available.

Also, the Windows Media Center Receiver service (Ehrecvr.exe) may stop unexpectedly.

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Clicking Online Media of Windows Vista Ultimate 64 Bit shows “No Services Found” error and only Program Library contains games. Explore is missing.

A system service on a Windows Vista-based computer uses named pipes to connect to a system service on another Windows Vista-based computer. Both services run under the local system account. However, when the system service on the first computer tries to connect to the system service on the second computer, you receive one of the following error messages:

Error message 1

Server1_name: cannot connect to machine “Server2_name” (0×00000005)!

Error message 2

Server1_name: cannot connect to machine “Server2_name” (0×00000035)!