i have got a samsung 40 GB Hd anda P-iv processor.earlier i had 98 n XP installed on it.due to some reason,i had to re-partition the whole HD.now ever since i have done that,i m unable to install any OS on it.when i try to install 98 on it then it goes on til 8% and then reboots.when i try to instal...

I would like to know which dll and exe are being loaded by Win2k after logon at real time with possibility to interrupt temporarily (break point) the loading process.<br/>How to do it, any idea ?

I re-installed win2000, VSNET2003, and everything was fine.<br/>Suddenly, PC locked up and now on boot thinks my fat32 drive is ntfs ? ? ?<br/>Is there a way to manually make it recognize/mount it as fat32?

Is the some unique identifier for disk (like manufacturer product key) for disk drive.<br/>SerialNumber that can be obtain with API GetVolumeInformationfunction or via WMI Win32_LogicalDisk unfortunately not unique.<br/>Thank you for looking

I'm trying to find a way to determine the type of media currently loaded in a DVD burner.I have existing code to do this, and I thought it worked. I wrote this some time ago, and tested it. But something may have changed, and it now doesn't work...The existing code uses IOCTL_STORAGE_GET...

I've developed a component (.dll file) on my desktop computer using VC++ 6 running Windows XP SP1. When I run regsvr32 on the the desktop computer, the .dll registers and I'm able to access the component from a client program.When I attempt to register the same component on a laptop compu...

Hi,Is there any way to recover the Registry files from Hard Drive which can be connected as Slave but can not be bootable ? I connected Hard Drive as slave to Win XP Pro. Later, I removed it and connected to a different PC and tried to Boot but it said OS not found ! Is it because I connected it as...

I am anewbie to batch programming and have a couple of questions.I am looking to create a batch file in Windows 2000 which opens up the Terminal Services Client. I then want to open a further program within the termincal services client. Is this possible and , if so, how best should I approach it? o...

Hi!<br/>I want to move a given user from a OU to another one...<br/>or just a simple way to "copy" one user from one to another, while maintaining all the user config info -- and then remove that user from the previous OU.<br/>can anyone help?<br/>Thanxs!

How do you uninstall a Windows Service without the service's binary. For instance, installutil -u MyService.exeFine, as long as you have the binary. Now, what if you don't? I'm asking because Oracle Universal installer screwed up half way during the installation process and it left so...

When I try to perform a very simple connection using an example I found here: http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/ldap/ldap/example_code_for_establishing_a_session_without_encryption.aspwith a few minor changes (such as using simple authentication) I get the following er...

hi,<br/>I want to force a soft to stay in non-paged pool memory in user mode.<br/>is there someone have an idea?<br/>Jaltus

Hi,I just recently upgraded my server from xp to server 2003. There's a problem however. Internet connection sharing "works" (as in the client computers get assigned dhcp and dns info correctly, and they can use the connection), but unlike the setup with the xp server there is no way for the cl...

I'm trying to write a batch file that automatically says "yes" to the yes/no prompt that pops up, and hits "ok" for a following prompt.This is what I have, but it does not work:@echo offecho y>script.txt echo.>>script.txt .TXT type script.txt|start /d"F:\batch" ScreenSaverOff.regHere&#...

Hi,<br/>Can anyone explain to me how i can make an exe file that makes an registry update with another username than the one that run the exe.

Hello,I need to format my drive and have it ready for a WindowsXP installbut I can not create a partition large enough for XP to copy it's files to..Has anyone been able to create an unattended stall filethat would allow you to FDISK and FORMAT your drivefor windowsXP ??Not sure if I worded thi...

Why isn't autoexec.bat started at Windows start-up? <br/>What I want to do is to delete a file at Windows start-up how do I do that?<br/>I tried to put it in autoexec.bat(del C:\file.dat) but nothing hapaend when I rebooted. Can I put it in the registry or how else can I do it?

Hello!<br/>I'm having a problem with Dr.Watson on citrix running on windows 2000 server/sp4. The Dr simply won't start when my app crashes with access violation. All entries in registry (AeDebug) seems to bee ok. <br/>Any help is appreciated<br/>Nicholas :confused:

Hello, all!I have trouble :(basic data:We have one domain with 3 computers in itFirst computer (CMP1) it is Domain Controller and Global Catalog, and two other... (CMP2, CMP3 )I'm run ldpex program on CMP3, with 3268 - port, end empty server name - ALL OKbut when I run this program on CMP2 I ha...

I have a small problem. I need to have an audit trail of all printing donefrom a windows XP machine whether the printing is done to a local ornetworked computer. The project calls for a message to be sent overthe net to an auditor whenever a print job is started or submitted for printing.If necessa...

I believe there is a system log in XP which can include logging of events selected by security policy. I am looking for a way to log printing both locally and to net printers.<br/>Question: can this system log be redirected to another machine on the net?<br/>Thanks<br/>EspadaJ

After installing XP on my HD, backup with Norton Ghost 9.0 was successful.<br/>Since this is my first time to use Norton Ghost 9.0, I tried to recover it after backup but it failed, saying that it needs a recovery disk?<br/>Can anyone help me??

Hi All,I have some computers in the warehouse downstarirs that the guys keep downloading crap and virusus on, i told them to stop, but they aren't listening, so i want to take there IE provialges away. I am looking for a way to turn on and off MS IE with a password, does anyone know how to do...

Hello All;I am wondering if there is a WIN32 API call to find a specific control on an form in a pre-existing appliction? I have looked at enum'ing through all the child windows on a form, which would include controls, but the only unique data I can find for each control is the HWND. This does...

How to turn of the clean manager that always pop's up when I want to copy something onto my partition that is nearly full?<br/>Any help very appreciated :thumb:<br/>(Why does microsoft put such annoying services into their OS?)

Hi everyone. Sbd told me that whenever he opens the command line under winXP (Start->programs-> bla bla or run->cmd ) the window opens for a moment and then closes instantly. Any ideas why this happens?<br/>Thanx.

Can anyone tell me where I would find information on how Windows, Windows 2000 in particular, handles network adapters. I am trying to find out how NIC teaming, combining 2-8 NIC cards into a virtual NIC card is done. So far I have only found how you set up third party software. I am trying to fin...

Hello gurusMy program produces an access violation error when calling this functionldap_set_option( pLdapConnection, // Session handle LDAP_OPT_PROTOCOL_VERSION, // Option (void*) &version); // Option valuewhere pLdapConnection is...

Hello Friends,I am having a problem with the ghost image which i have made recently. First there was no problem at all. After i made the ghost image i have saved the image in our server so that the next time i can directly dump it from there. Now the problem is that when i am ghosting a machine from...

Hello dear friends,I have been really fustrated with this winlogon.exe error everytime i open an internet explorer. that really fustrates me and i dont know how to correct that error. So if anybody has any idea about this please tell me how to correct this error. This keeps on coming every time i op...

Hello dear Friends,I am facing a big problem with my computer not getting bootup in the first time. The Actual problem is that when i switch on my computer for the first time in the day it refuses to boot. I have noticed that if i keep the power for some time and then later try starting the computer...

Hello all friends,My computer suddenly gets hanged up when i am in between of some urgent work and all the data which has not been saved gets lost. This is happening for the last one week. i tried running a virus scan thinking that this might be because of some virus in the system this might be gett...

I need to know how to do basic error handling in a batch file. Here's the code I have so far:@echo offclsset STRTVIEW=0set MNTVOB=0set DIRVOB=0set UMNTVOB=0set ENDVIEW=0:STRTVIEWcleartool startview dev_viewif errorlevel==1 goto MNTVOBset STRTVIEW=1:MNTVOBcleartool mount \DC_Projif errorlevel==...

Hi,A win32 application during its run time creates a process using CreateProcess() API.I find the process comsumes more CPU when it's parent Win32 application is running as a service compared to when it's parent Win32 application is running as standard application.For example, consider a W...

For those of you familiar with windows 2000 policies...Windows 2000 allows you to use the gpedit utility to create a policy which will run a set of scripts at various times(Logon, logoff, startup, shutdown, etc). I would like to be able to setup a logon script to run when you login to the system and...

Hi all,can any one tell me how to select the users created before some specifc datei used an ado connection in a vb script and the whencreated propertiesbut still can't write the condition.i wrote:sql="select * from LDAP://test,dc=com where when created > 'date' "please Help...

We'Ve got Problem<br/>I don't know how to execute program form service in VB.NET or C#. Any help is very needed<br/>Thanks

Hello All!Why Outlook messages (in HTML format) with the same bodies have a distinctive PR_RTF_COMPRESSED?I have seen in OutlookSpy that both messages have differs 16 bytes at the beginning of PR_RTF_COMPRESSED, and they have about 4 differs bytes not far from end of PR_RTF_COMPRESSED.How to correct...

Hi Friends, I am a simple windows programming person trying to do a small project. I a trying to get the Serial number (Unique to the Compact flash) through some windows function, but am not able to do it. I tried a function as GetVolumeInformation with parameters. It does return me a number but it...

Hi All,I have internet connection(direct) in my office line. I have installed a proxy software , which enable other machines in my lan to connect to Internet through my direct Internet connection(through my machine). Now i want to give proxy internet access to only few specific ip Addressess. What i...

can anyone tell me what is the best and the safest way too tripple boot a brand new hard disk. i got OS like Red Hat Linux 9.1, win 2000 Professional Edition, Win 98, win 98 SE, win XP and win ME. my system is a AMD athlon and i also have got suficient memory to do the task. so can anyone please hel...

I partioning a hard drive into sections and installing a different one on each. For example, WINME, WINXP, ETC. I want to create a bootable floppy that will give me the option of what operating system to boot. I thinking that autoexec.bat is my best bet. but I heard XP doesn't use it. The thing...

Hi folks,I want to run a file which will check 11 servers, but so far all I can do is run a simple batch file to ping each one of them in turnI still want to ping them, but I want some error to come up if the ping has no responseUltimately I'd love to be able to run a file which would report if...

Is there a way to have a startup script make a hosts file for each user?

Hi everyone,I am fairly new to batch files. I have a problem.I want to create a bach file. Lets say it is named extra2.bat.Then it should use replaceable parameters so that the user may choose what file extensions to display. Allow any existing files to be copied to a new file that the user names.Di...

Everyone,<br/>We currently have simple batch scripts to stop and start (Restart) windows services using Net Stop and Net Start. <br/>My question is what would be the easiest way to set up a monitor to notify via email when a service is NOT started (running). <br/>Thanks!<br/>Jeff...

Hi,I'm trying to enable Plug n' Play for USB connected devices on locked down machines with a standard user. The desktops are all Win2000 Pro. I don't want to have to relax any permissions on HKLM\System registry keys. Ideally, I'd like PnP to be initiated by a system account...

I am trying to write a batch file that will open a program on another computer located on our network. Basically this batch file will close the program on this certain computer and then backup the database the program is associated to. I then was wanting the batch file to reopen the program for th...

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Hi everybody!Today I have been introduced to a very strange problem that I could not find a resolution for. I started to work on the project that involves coding a client-side IE control. My development machine is running Windows XP Professional. When I had my first draft ready, I tried to run the p...