I am developing a program on my PC that will connect to the Internet via sockets. The first time that I ran it Windows popped-up a security message that said "This program is attempting the Internet, should Windows allow the connection?" I clicked yes and now my program is forever allowed to run a...

Why the system uses/shows that the specific user is having profile size in MBs?I know when we store data in My Documents, it counts. But the OS should be smart enough to detect that and reduce that usage amount from user's profile.Furthermore, if an administrator deletes the user profile it als...

i have a smart card reader installed on my machine with windows 2000. i don't want the prompt " enter your smart card" for logging on to windows at start up. but i want this prompt to come when icon for my application is double clicked. plz help. i am new to all this.thanks in advance....

Hi,<br/> I want to run an ActiveX exe as a service in SYSTEM User when windows starts.I'm using windows Xp. can anyone help me out in this. Thanks in advance.<br/>Vinoth

This is Windows 2000. Every time that I would like to open the folder called "My Computer" and look at the hard drive, disk, CD, etc, the only thing that I see is just a white space and cursor is "waiting" (has the hourglass drawn over it.) In the end I'm forced to forcefully kill it and wait f...

I am using two operating systems. First I installed Win98 on C: drive and then I installed WinXp on D: Drive. My question is that I had to reinstall the Win98 after formating my C: drive, then with new installation, there is no option to select to OS, so I am not able to run WinXp. Whenever I boot t...

One of my friend's pc is giving error message upon running any program escept window explorer, <br/> [Program path] is not a valid Win32 application.<br/> He is using win98. He has reinstalled window formatting C:, but the problem persists;<br/> Help..

How many states of user object in the current computer? I want to retrieve the number.<br/>And can I change the state? How to do it?

I am backing up files from a SUN application into a folder on the local C drive . i need a way for the contents of the folder to be synchronized with another folder any where on a LAN automatically, each time the original back up folder is updated .

hi guys!I Have an win2k pro installed when i turn it on and logging to it... it display a message " unable to login to the system" then after clicking ok... it displays your account was locked as a result of too many concurrent logins with the incorrect password". but it is configured with a blank p...

Hi Guys, Recently I ve Installed Xp in my Home PC. Its a dual OS Type. I ve win 98 also. Win 98 is Working Fine. When I boot from Xp it seems to be booting But Suddenly it is restarting and stands in the OS Selection screen. If I select Xp for Booting then again seems to be booting and a...

recently my previous hard disk failed and i replaced it with a new one and i installed windows 2000 pro service pack 4, i retrived my data from the faulty drive and was doing good till i start connecting to the net;now i get the error svchost.exe the referenced memory could not be accessed.i searche...

using System;using System.DirectoryServices;namespace DomainList {class Class1 {static void Main(string[] args) {DirectoryEntry directoryEntry = new DirectoryEntry("LDAP://10.10.100.200:300/o=myorg","null","null",AuthenticationTypes.Anonymous);DirectorySearcher directorySearcher = new DirectorySearc...

I'm Using WIndows XP, and everytime I try to run Turbo C the window freezes.<br/>How can I Run Turbo C in Windows XP?

I have a folder that I frequently access. I want to make it as drive letter.I made it using:SUBST M: c:\mydirI just wanted to know whether GUI part is available for it. I tried Computer Management (Disk Management, Logical Drives etc.).I am using Win2000, SP2.Thanx....

Hi All,I have to develop a data synchronization module using ASP.Net and C#. This module should synchronize the user repository from the source which is Active Directory (for now). I have to meet the requirement of doing the same with LDAP or ERP system in the future.I am using SQL server as my targ...

Hi,<br/>I want to know how to protect a file from being copied to another location.<br/>i think this should be possible in windows 2K, XP.<br/>PLEASE DO let me know

Hi all<br/>is it possible to make any of our file denied from being copied? <br/>i need this feature in windows.<br/>is it possible?<br/>Thanks<br/>Harinath

I'm sure we've all been there but this really bugs me. You select to move a few dozen gig of files between computers/drives and go off for a cup of tea. Returning 10 mins later only to see the message "thumbs.db is a system file are you sure you want to move it?" after only 10 MB of file...

Hi to you all,I've encountered a problem with my project,I'm trying to retrive all members of each group in the A.D (include security groups) of a domain.the proccess goes like this. I'm enquiring the ldap using directory searcher, for retriving of all groups using the full subtree....

An Interesting problem with Windows. <br/> Try to create a folder in Windows with either of these names-- "con" or "nul" or "Aux". <br/> Windows will not let u create..... <br/>any Specific reason???

Hi Gurus,I want to know if this is possible to program and use. Here is a typical situation that explains the problem at hand:Say, I have a folder with personal documents on a USB jump drive or an iPod. When I connect this drive to a machine, it recognizes the directories in the drive and displays t...

I am having DFS issues. I have upgraded my PDC to a 2003 Server and I appear to be having trouble replicating to my alt-site PDC which is still running 2000. All the DFS settigs seem to be in place, but files/folders aren't replicating properly. In the Event Viewer I am getting a NtFrs warning...

I keep seeing Event ID 4226 in my event's list and there's always a message that pops up too. It usually happens when I'm using P2P programs. Does anyone know what this means? Or better yet what can I do to fix it? Someone told me it had to do with the XP SP2 and not having enough soc...

Hi,<br/>when I use a JAVAScript to call up a pop-up window, the AxtiveX control from the explorer is blocking the pop-up windows from compiled CHM files and they are empty. Knows anybody a trick?

Can I set a boot password on my WinXP machine, and when it gets to the account paasword, also ask for a hardware key? Also, what's an illegal operation? And what's telnet?

Hi Guys and Gals,I was wondering if someone could help me.As part of my duties, at work, I have to setup a test lab with numerious PC's. I have baught a few and some have SATA drives. Now I have no problem insalling XP, 2000 and 98 but I can't install windows NT4.I either get, after copyin...

HiI am not able to hear sound from my head phones.By mistake i have removed some software from my machine. Before that i use to hear.I don't know what i have removed and how to reinstall it.Pls see the attached doc.I am not able to set "Volume" and "Voice" setting in start->setting->contr...

Hi All,Don't know if this is possible, I am a network admin for a large company with two UK sites, currently run Windows 2003 server with an AD domain and XP Pro clients. We have logon batch files for mapping printers and directories stored in the netlogon folder on the AD Servers. The problem...

Say we have a chunk in the physical RAM. A page(page1) is allocated at that chunk. Say the page extends from memory location - 0x0000 to 0x8888.At that time, another process(say, page2) is compiled. The MMU will generate addresses from -0x8889 - 0xffff for it.(whenever I say MMU generating addresses...

I believe dynamic loading means that loading of the process into RAM(from secondary storage) takes place at run time.<br/>Am I correct?<br/>What does static loading mean?<br/>Thanks<br/>Vikram

.. i have aproblem with IIS . [using WinXP]i installed IIS with default settings, havent set up any passwords, but when i try http://localhost, it says either that it cannot find that page, or sometimes i am asked to introduce a password.. but i havent set any passwords. HELP! plz...later edit: oh a...

We moved from NT to AD recently.We have a new machine build process that begins with a boot cd and then goes through couple of dialog boxes to gather information from the user. Based on the information from user or the answer file (depending on what the user selects in those dialog boxes), we build/...

When a page cannot be loaded and the session times out I get a message saying "Your current security settings prohibit the running of ActiveX controls. As a aresult the page may not display correctly". I keep getting this very frequently. Does anyone know why this happens ?

How do you get rid of the stupid search bars in IE. Is it something with the registry or what they are erally amkin me mad! :mad: <br/>Also, I might add, The people who make these bars should burn in ****

I have given special users launch- and access-permissions to Word-Files under Windows 2003 via DCOM (with dcomcnfg).I have an ASP.NET-Application which runs in the user-context (impersonation=true) and which uses a component (Microsoft.Office.Interop.Word.dll)to create Word-documents on the server....

I recently upgraded to XP (I'm finally in the new millenium), and I am having a bit of a problem. 99.9% of the OS works just beautifully, but this one thing is driving me mad. When I connect to the internet and try to play some of the free games on msn.com, I get a security error. I have trie...

I have written a multithreaded server-application that behaves rather strangely at times. Sometimes, it completely locks the computer, making the powerswitch the only option to reboot. My logs tells me that that the "beginning to the end" is one specific thread the freezes for some unknown reason. T...

Hi, My application runs fine if Hyperthreading is disabled and crashes if hyperthreading is enabled in the BIOS.Is it advisable to disable hyperthreading?Some other application running in that system might require hyperthreading.Can any one help me out in this problem.Please rply ASAP....

Hi ,<br/> I have mac address with me . Is there a way to find out the IP address corresponding to this mac address?<br/>Is there any API for that?<br/>Please help me out ASAP.

Greetings! I am working on a project and I would like to detect if a mailbox has new mail waiting to be read for a given user as well as display the last time a user read his mailbox. I am writing this for an Exchange Server v5.5 SP4 in mind and I am stumped as I cant seem to find a way to do this....

Hi,<br/>I am having a problem with Remote Desktop. I cannot use Remote Desktop after having Microsoft Outlook open. Anyone ever hear of this problem?<br/>Any help appreciated,<br/>Royce

As I've found out, IIS is necessary in order to make your ASP pages compile in .NET. Unfortunately I am currently running XP Home edition and not professional (IIS is built into that.) So here's my question, how can I get IIS for XP home edition?

Hi.<br/>I am new to this as I just took up some asp VBscript, javascript course...<br/>Just wondering if I format a harddisk, does anyone know which one to choose: FAT, FAT32, NTSC and what is the difference?<br/>Thanks..

i have seen that XP has a feature that enables the user to run non-xp compatible softwares in XP but changing its compatability to some other older versions of windows. but still there are some softwares like chessmaster 4000 that still dznt work in XP. what is the solution to thatcan anyone please...

Hi , I am having trouble removing an ACE using ADSI/WMI scriptingI have created a script to traverse a folder recursively and extract dacl of eaxh file/folder and then remove the ACE of a particular trustee, if present in the DACL of any file/folder.The Following is the script:---->' This Sc...

well i didn't had any idea where to ask this one so i'm asking it over here.whenever i try and play certain .mpeg files in my windows media player9 the media player gives the message-- error loading codec, though the song comes on, the video doesn't. i tried it with some other .mpeg f...

The ms article 248019 states:If you call a method on a COM server from an MFC COM client application and if the method takes a long time to process and return back, you won't be able to do anything on the client application and the OLE Server Busy dialog box pops up.You get the option to switch...

Hi!I'm porting a win95 MFC app with a LOT of dialogs to NT/2000. Unfortunately that app supports a dozen of languages from the same .exe and also the same system without rebooting (i.e. CP_ACP will be different from the Charset used in the application). Of course since that app was designed for...

Hey All,Is there any way to recover from an ERROR_NETWORK_DELETED within an application?1. My application opens a file using CreateFile() which is stored on a network share.2. To simulate a temporary network failure, I disconnect the network cable.3. My application tries to perform a file operation....