You install a Windows Vista service pack on your computer. After the service pack is installed, the computer may freeze, or it may restart. If the computer restarts, you see an error message that resembles the following on a black screen:

!! 0xc0000034 !! 142/53007 (_0000000000000000.cdf-ms)

Note: If you restart the computer, you experience the same error message.

When you try to install a Windows Vista Service Pack, the computer stops responding. You see a black screen, and you receive an error message that resembles the following:

!! 0xc0190036 !! 4159/75360 (myfile.xxx)

If you restart the computer, you receive the same error message.

When you open Adobe Audition 3 after installing it on a 64-bit Windows Vista Service Pack 1 (SP1) system, the program does not start and you receive these error messages:

• “To help protect your computer, Data Execution Prevention has closed Adobe Audition.”
• “Adobe Audition has stopped working. A problem caused the program to stop working correctly. Windows will close the program and notify you if a solution is available.”

A critical security update was released today for Windows Vista. It is for IE, not only version 7, but version 8 as well. There are different downloads depending on if you have IE7 or IE8, and depending on if you have SP1 or SP2 (yes, SP2 is in testing). See more details here. Keep reading →

Description: This security update resolves two privately reported vulnerabilities. The vulnerabilities could allow remote code execution if a user views a specially crafted Web page using Internet Explorer. Users whose accounts are configured to have fewer user rights on the system could be less impacted than users who operate with administrative user rights. The security update addresses these vulnerabilities by modifying the way that Internet Explorer handles the error resulting in the exploitable condition. Keep reading →

While installing Windows Vista (SP1) using Windows Update, or the automatic updating feature, you may receive the following error:

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You have a Windows Vista Service Pack 1 (SP1)-based or Windows Server 2008-based computer that is a member of a domain. When you disconnect from the network, you may experience a delay of 12 to 14 seconds before you can access the network again.

Notes:

• This issue usually occurs when the computer switches between a network that deploys Network Access Protection (NAP) enforcement and another network.
• This issue does not occur on a computer that is running the release version of Windows Vista or on a computer that is not a domain member.

On a Windows Vista Service Pack 1-based computer or a Windows Server 2008-based computer, handle leaks and memory leaks occur on the Printer Spooler service if the computer installs and uninstalls network printers. You may find that the handle usage and memory usage of the spoolsv.exe process keeps increasing.

Note: You can use Windows Task Manager or the Performance Monitor utility to verify this issue. The “More Information” section provides steps to verify the issue by using Windows Task Manager.

For example, if you have a Windows Server 2008-based terminal server, the handle leaks and the memory leaks occur when clients that have redirected printers log on and log off the terminal server. When the client logon and logoff events occur many times, and the Printer Spooler service has not restarted, the computer may start to respond slowly.

When an application calls the LsaLogonUser function together with the KERB_TICKET_LOGON structure to submit an authentication request on a Windows Server 2008-based computer or on a Windows Vista Service pack 1 (SP1)-based computer, the LsaLogonUser function returns an ERROR_HANDLE_NOT_CLOSABLE error code. Additionally, the Lsass.exe process crashes. Additionally, you receive the following message, and then the computer restarts:

You are about to be logged off
Windows has encountered a critical problem and will restart automatically in one minute. Please save your work now.

After the computer restarts, the following event is logged in the event log:

Event Type: Information
Event Source: Application Popup
Event Category: None
Event ID: 26
Description: Application popup:
System Shutdown: The system is shutting down. Please save all work in progress and log off. Any unsaved changes will be lost. This shutdown was initiated by NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM. Shutdown will begin in number seconds. Shutdown message: The system process 'C: \WINDOWS\system32\lsass.exe' terminated unexpectedly with status code error code. The system will now shut down and restart.

This problem occurs if the application submits the authentication request by using stored credentials information on the computer.

In an Active Directory domain environment, you define the following Group Policy setting on a Group Policy object (GPO):

Computer Configuration\Policies\Windows Settings\Security Settings\Local Policies\User Rights Assignment\Create symbolic links

Then, on a Windows Server 2008-based computer or on a Windows Vista Service Pack 1 (SP1)-based computer that has Remote Server Administration Tools (RSAT) installed, you use the Group Policy Management tool (GPMC.MSC) to generate a report of the GPO settings.

Note: To generate a report of the GPO settings, click the GPO under the “Forest\Domains\Domain\Group Policy Objects” node, and then click the Settings tab in the right pane.

In this case, the “Create symbolic links” Group Policy setting does not appear in the report.

Also, on the computer where GPMC is running, you run the Group Policy Results wizard for the computers or users to which this Group Policy setting should be applied. Then, when you click the Settings tab, in the “Computer Configuration\Policies\Windows Settings\Security Settings” area, you receive the following error message:

An error has occurred while collecting data for Security Configuration Engine (SCE) Extension.