We manage all accounts centrally, including new account requests. This has been a two step process where a network account was first created that dealt with most campus wide services and then a separate Windows domain account was created for student lab and staff use. I am trying to simplify that...

Hi,I am trying to write a program that will send a post to a web form and return the resulting web page. i.e. If you go to the Google page you enter some text in the search field and click the search button. After this you are shown a page with your search result. What I want is to post the informa...

1)I know how to add items to context menus for various file types in Windows by editing the appropriate registry entries under the ROOT hive. What I would like to do, however, is group items under a folder or whatever you call it. I want it so when you right click over a txt file, for example, there...

Greetings!I am about ready to kill who ever invented active directory...My problem is its been a lot easier to write code to locate a user account using the WINNT:// provider, but doing the same thing in LDAP:// is melting my brain.What I want to do is bind to a user account object with my ADsGetObj...

Hi all,I have a very generic question related to Windows Operation system?What happend when a user right clicks and triggers Refresh menu item? I want to know what is happening internally in the OS?Whether it is refreshing the memory / registers / stack / related to paging...?What happens exactly?T...

Hi all,<br/>I have roaming profiles set up on my 50 users Windows 2000 network. I moved the location of the profiles to a different server. Any idea how can I point all the users to the new location without changing it one by one in Active Directory?<br/>Thanks,

I want to be able to automate the task of setting a User Rights assignment to any user. I'd like to do this in a batch file. For example: set user "testUser" to "Act as the operating system."I've seen ways using secedit, but I don't understand how to use it. Can anyone lay out for...

Hi All, Here I am having a problem in implementing RSOP in ASP.NET(C#). I don't know whether I can post technical problems here, but trying is not bad. The Problem: I am trying to run a RSOP report for logging mode. If I give local user name and local computer name as inputs to RSOP, then...

I am referingt to this... http://www.updatepatch.info/I received a Messenger service message that I am infected with something and that I should download a patch from that site. I just wondered if those are legal patches, why isn't they located inside any Microsoft site since they purportedly pa...

I encountered a folder which has a name "..." on my pc. I tried to create a folder named "...", but I failed! I couldn't access this folder, moreover, I couldn't delete it!I knew the folder contains many files, but I couldn't access them. sigh!Who can tell me the why?Thanks in advance...

I was wondering if there's any way to force the removal of a directory. Say that you create a dir called test and open the file test/test.txt. Now if you try to remove the dir test you will get an error saying that another process is using this dir and that it can't be removed.Any solution...

Hi everyone. I have the following problem: - I have a domain account in a LAN. - I want to make that account to have administrative rights on a specific pc. - I log on as local administrator, then go to administrative tools-> computer management->Local users and groups->groups->adminstra...

Hi...<br/> I need to develop a program which can capture the event of another application. For example, i need to capture a particular button click in one application from my program.. is it possible to do dat?? can anyone out there help me in this.. :-(<br/>With regards,<br/>goms.

Hi,I am really sorry if I am posting on the wrong forum, but I really don't know what this question belongs to. We wrote a program that is localized into different languages including Simplified Chinese, Spanish and French. When our installer runs, it would ask the users to choose the lanugage...

Hi everyone,I have a problem with windows me. It is installed on my personal computer and one day unexpectedly, after I boot the PC, there was a message in a DOS screen saying:"invalid system. Replace disk and press any key". I used a DOS system disk to boot the PC. After the booting process the dri...

Ok, the way I have my Windows XP Home set up is that I have my limited account (where I spend 95% of my time goofing around) and my admin account (when I need to install things) so that I stand a less likely chance of getting a virus. Now as said before, I need my admin one in order to install progr...

i am running windows xp with sp2, and i have recently installed sim card manager software on to my pc , now when i run the program this error message keeps appearing: sim card manager setup.exe common language runtime debugger service, application has generated an execption that cannot be handled....

Hi,We're having an issue with a client and our software and accessing PC's using remote desktop. Here's what's happening:Our product is written in VB6 and it uses an in-house ActiveX control to connect to and screen scrape information from a Passport 3270 emulator connected to an...

Hello,there!Had anyone used PCASYS,an algorithm for fingerprint classification?First,I installed the Cygwin library and associated tools (I must admitted that it was one of the most ambiguous installation instruction that I had read! Associated tools! What on earth tools should I install? Well,final...

Coming from a Linux/Java/Web-based development background, I am looking to learn Windows app development. There seem to be three camps -- Win32 API, MFC, and now .NET (Forms,etc.). I was wondering what is the "best practice"as far as new development goes. Is .NET usurping all others now as the de f...

Hello everyone,<br/>i wonder if there is a way to test replication performance in ADAM programatically?<br/>if not any alternative ways instead?<br/>Thanks a lot

Ever try to make your windows partition an ext2? Well I have and I'm screwed :) .Here's my question. I've found the below link... http://www.runtime.org/Now, what I'm planning on doing is taking the hard-drive from my borked machine and hooking it up to this one that actually work...

Hi,<br/>Can any one help me in finding out the Ip address from MAC by using RARP in windows?<br/>Regards,<br/>Jaya

Hi, <br/>I want to set group policy in Active Directory (Windows Server 2003) programatically by C#/C++. Any help is highly appreciated. <br/>/

Hi all,I just have a question about my machine. I have a Windows 2000 advanced server and when i login to this box, before my desktop loads, i see a small command prompt popping out at the left corner of the screen which reads something like UserLoginCtl or something like that.Is this normal and is...

Hi thereI hope this is the right forum for my question. like i want to change the music for my xp startup, logon and shutdown. i've already acquired .wav files and renamed them with ones i found in the windows\media folder . But it doesn't work. wot am i doin wrong ? And exactly what ideal...

Well, just bought myself an 80 Gig hard-drive to back stuff up. When I connect the hard-drive to my computer it says that it does not recognize it. I've tried on a different computer (a friend's) if the thing would work and it did beautifully. Are there any new drivers that I should instal...

Hi, I am seeking to programmatically control win32 (specifically Windows 2k and XP) hardware profiles. I need to be able to query the names of existing profiles, add profiles, delete profiles, and (this may be the tricky part) enable / disable hardware devices in specific hardware profiles. What asp...

HiI have a 80GB hard disk that is made into only one primary partition (NTFS).now I want to create a secondry partition and sub-devide this logical partition into 3 logical partitions as I can make using FDesk under DOS.but I want to do this using windows (or a 3rd party tool running on windows) and...

My pc is new and just used for 1 weekHere is the configuration:Windows XP SP2AMD Sempron 2400+1GB DDR400 RamMSI K7N2 Delta2 motherboardGeForce 6600 display cardI have no idea why my pc will reboot automatically for sometimes... and i cannot predict the reboot time... it just reboots whenever it like...

Hey guys...I have a problem: This ResExplorer tool from article, registers itself to handle all .EXE files. And since it always crashes via an access violation error, windows does not allow me to run EXE any more. :eek:. I can only open those programs who are registered to a file extensions on their...

Hi,I am currently experiencing a serious problem when trying to access Tridion DialogServer r4 using IE 6.0.2900.2800 SP2; 3283.Basically, an ASP error is produced by the server stating that there is an invalid argument in the http request.A second machine setup the same with XP SP2 and same IE exce...

My win32 console mode application crashes without any indication of why. How can I add instrumentation to get a handle on this? :blush:

Hello Sir,<br/>Could any one please tell me how to maintain an audit trail for an application on windows 2000.It's urgent.<br/>Regards,<br/>Poornima.

Is it possible to enter into a domain (OS Win XP) without any username or password.I know the feature of auto logon but that takes the entry of Username and password in registry i dont want to use it .Simply i want that know that is there any way by which i can bypass the logon Dialog Box any enter...

Hi. I need a 100% freeware htm editor, like FrontPage (MS) that runs under winXP. Any ideas.

Hi, Can any one help me out to ping a machine using its MAC address .I think if we give ping(ipaddress/hostname) the entry for the coreesponding machine's Ip and its mac adress mapping appears in the ARP table.This can be seen by typing arp -a in the command prompt.But if i need to do the sam...

I have a bitmap handle i have to place that bitmap in the center of a object on a form what can i do i have tried bit-bilt but it doesnot seem working

I want to be able to determine how much network traffic certain processes (IMAP and POP3 daemons) are generating. I am using the Win32_Service and Win32_Process classes to extract memory usage, etc. I will be using win2000 server for now but may be upgrading to win2003 server soon. I have found a wa...

Since we manage passwords centrally, we don't want user to be able to change their password locallyand so we want to make sure that the "User cant change password" account option is set, and if not, set it. Unfortunately from a sysadmin programmer's point of view, it's an ntSecurityD...

Hi<br/>How can i find the Service Pack version that installed on Windows2000?<br/>Thanks

HI, I have 4 batch files; one for sales, administration, accounting and general users. Im trying to combine them into one big batch file. Within this new batch file is there a way I can put a IF user is a group member of Sales map these drives, and the same for the other 3 type of groups. If so, wha...

I believe the DsReplicaSyncAll function in ntdsapi.dll and the ReplicaSyncAll function in iadstools.dll can force replication programmatically.Does anyone know how to achieve it through .NET or c#?ThanksI have the following code but the error is The error returned was: ERROR_BIND_TO_REMOTE_SERVER_FA...

I'm on DSL and don't like to be connected to internet 24/7 and I normally doesn't use administrator account. However, windows doesn't allow limited account to enable or disable lan connection, the option is grayed out. Is there a way to turn on this option for limited account? I&...

Hi, everyone!I'm trying to create an application similar to Windows Disk Defragmenter.It's all going well so far. Anyway, I have a question about the followingdata output that Windows Disk Defragmenter produces.Volume fragmentation Total fragmentation = 26 % Fi...

Hello all, I have a code that adds the entries to the LDAP directory server and this code is in JAVA But this code does compile but when i run it it gives Runtime error as::::: Invalid credentials::::::The server is running when the code is run. for this do i need to specify certain sc...

Hi,<br/>I would like know that whether Windows Kernel is the Main thread of OS and all other process and thread are created from this main thread. Is this understanding correct?<br/>Thanks

Hi,I originally posted this in the C# forum but got no response -- probably the wrong forum (it's just that I'm coding in C#).I'm writing what will eventually run as a service that does a bunch of things to user properties to standardize Domain user accounts, most of which if I didn&#...

Hi,I am trying to install MS SQL Server 2000 standard edition on a Windows 2003 Server and I get the error "SQL Server 2000 SP2 and belowis not supported by this version of Windows". Since I have Service Pack 3A (Standard Edition, Personal Edition and Service Pack 3A cam as a set of 3 CDs), I selec...

i bought a bunch of computers at an auction that were reformated (dollar a comp). When i try to start them up it says operating system not found. I've tryed my boot disk (im using windows 98) and it wont boot up with the disk. All the computers seemed to have been opened up, but i don't...