Can anyone tell me how one can change the password of a given user using the c api for ldap<br/>i wishto know which attributes need to be modified<br/>thanxs in advance

Hi,We are testing an OPC Client program that we write using the Visual C++ SDK from code from Factory Soft. After configuring the security and firewall on the XP SP2 machine for DCOM, connecting a client to an OPC Server on remote machine gives the error: OR_INVALID_OXID or the message The object sp...

Hi,We need to check how much RAM used by our C++ Console Application using Perfmon. I checked almost all the available Counters. But I am not able to figure out which counter can be used to get the RAM usage by a process.I would like have counter that Task manager uses (How Windows does this calcuat...

Hi,I've programmed a class to get the Typelib information for a registered Class. Now I can find all the information fine but 1 issue still remains. I don't know how Windows determines the Version in the 'Typelib' section.It goes as follows:All searches are in the HKEY_CLASSES_RO...

I keep getting the "install Java Virtual machine" prompt, and if i select OK to install it, it installs, my system reboots, and setup runs again, and the same thing happens. How can I install it?

I am writing a script the executes .exes and .bats automatically, eliminating any humna error...I have run into a snag, can anyone help?@ECHO OFF:: START installstart /wait install.exeset /p _setupdir=What was the directory you specified in the INSTALL program? EG "C:\Program Files\Civ3" Make sure t...

I want to get contact email from outlook in my program.<br/>Who can help me?<br/>Thanks!

I am trying to enable the options shown in the screenshot below for regular Users that do not have administrators rights on the machine. If I login as an admin the Add/Remove/Configure options are selectable. I am assuming this is either a policy issue or a file rights issue. But after using Regmon...

How do we get Active Directory Tree/Forest programmatically. Its similar to the select users computers dialog location button click tree.<br/>thanks<br/>rv

Hello there,I hope that somebody out there can help me. Im using terminal server in my company (server 2003 with office 2003 pro) and a couple of my users estar getting the following error "Microsoft Visual Basic Compile Error in Hidden Module. Auto ExecNew"This error shows up every time that they t...

Okay, say you have a standard window open to your desktop... then, in Word or something, you save a file to the desktop. -->the window will update and display your new file.That's what I want to do. I want to make a program that will ask windows "Hey, what's changed in the last two ho...

HiHo to all!Im a mmog-(massively multiplayer online game) player.A very important part of this games is exact timing when sending an army or anything like this. Now my question:Is it possible to write a program which either makes the windowsclock show exactly the same time like the server (where the...

Hey!I realize this is a silly question but it bugs me!In Internet Explorer on the Favorites menu there is a "Links" folder. I deleted all of the contents of that folder, and deleted the folder so that it would not be shown on my favorites menu anymore. But the folder keeps coming back.I found an opt...

hi!<br/>i would like to know how to load a file ...for eg abcd.exe in the memory while booting win XP ...i read somewher tht we could include a call stmt to this file in AUTOEXEC.bat but it dosent work in XP.<br/>jejo

Hai everbody,i am having a problem running both IIS and Apache Tomcat Server both at the same time. it is able to start apache server, but it was not able to start IIS.i have many options like running since server at a time, installing IIS first and Apache next and Apache first and IIS next.any body...

Hi,<br/>instead of using contol panel\add or remove program, could you please help me to launch "Add or Remove Program" under Dos Prompt and under Run dialog<br/>Thank you very much,<br/>Dave Le

Well I guess this is about the best Forum to post this...I've Just recently updated my systems to Win2000 Pro. (From win98) I did complete clean installs on my pc.. Fdisk and all..I installed VB6 and started using it, No problem...Now i would like to package my app to deliver to client but i ge...

Problem:I can get to the website from outside the network without a problem, but bring that same laptop into the network and it can not communicate with the same settings. Page can not be displayed.Equipment:Dell 1800 - 2003 Server, IIS, and SSLBelkin Wireless Router running NAT Public IP for SSL s...

Hi allIm familiar with the IPC method of sharing memory with CreateFileMapping, but how do you share memorythat was already allocated?for example a driver allocated it,passed the ptr to one processand another needs to access that buffer.What if one of these processes is 32bit and the other is 64bit?...

i have a dos program that prints to a dot marix printer.windows xp does not immediately print, it prints after 20 to 30 seconds or i have to exit the dos program for it to start printing.what are my options, is there a setting in xp that i can change?thankslloyd...

windows server 2003, how do i set up a domain and subdomain on the one server machine..<br/>all help says this dcpromo... but all that does is offer to remove active directory and the already set up domain<br/>thanks<br/>frank

Hi all, I recently upgraded my motheroard to an MSI k8n neo2 with an athlon 64 venice 3200 processor, the rest of the specs are maxtor 60gb HDD a 6GB HDD, Radeon 9600 graphics card, RICOH CRDW and powered with a 400W power supply. Now I have disabled SATA and things like that as that was causing a d...

I need some help analyzing this Minidump from Windows 2000 Server SP4. Below is the out put from analyze. I could no info for RSAFAL.sys, Does anyone know what this driver is? Also can you point me to some good resources/books to learn how to use WinDbg?1: kd> !analyze -v*************************...

hello guys and girls, i know this is weird to find network stuffs on dev-archive.but hey its just discussion and some1 can help me out or redirect me.I have a workgroup of 10 cpus all installed wit d same NIC card, but one system keeps running on 10mbps while all the rest run 100mbps. whenevr i chan...

I'm doing double buffering with Windows. And everything works fine, i copy one DC to another. Everything is rendered except child windows.I declare the Child Window before the main loop wirh CreateWindowEx(); But when i run & compile my child window flickers and dissapears. I think it's ca...

WinXP w/SP2 logging into Win2003 server - Standard Edition. No profiles.<br/>When they log into the server, it seems to take like 2 minutes to log in. GOD forbid if you are not suppose to be on that computer and login...we are talking like 7 minute wait!<br/>Any thoughts?

Hi,I am developing an application which establishes a connection between a mobile device(running on Symbian OS) and a PC via OBEX over USB. The Obex server resides on the mobile device and the client on the PC side. I want to use Win32 programming on the PC side, but i am not able to find any API�...

I know that on XP you can have windows add a background image to folders. Is there anyway I can add a custom image to my folders? I just want the same image on all of the folders. Is there some type of registry hack, or some special place I can put my image to have it be useds as folder backgrounds?...

Hi!!am trying to figure out answers to following qns in a windows environment:-how many threads are allowed per process , any known limitations?-what is the process space/address space/stack size allocated per process?-whats the max. memory that could be available for allocation per process/thread?I...

hi,<br/>my LAN connection between my pcs suddenly went down when i turned them on this morning. I don't know why, but am guessing maybe a virus. I have attched a screenshot of task manager.<br/>can anybody see anything suspect?<br/>cheers :)

Hi,<br/>How to force ldap_bind_s to user kerberos ? With LDAP_AUTH_NEGOTIATE as a 4th option I am able to use NTLM, but how can I say to ldap_bind_s to use Kerberos and not NTLM ? <br/>thanks in advance...

I've registered context menu handler for following shell predefined objects:HKCR\AllFileSystemObjects\ContextMenuHandlers\MyProgramHKCR\lnkfile\ContextMenuHandlers\MyProgramI need that my context menu handler receive shortcut's name (but not filename shortcut points to) when I right-click...

Hi,I wish to test my tray icon project to see if the icon will be recreated upon a reset of Explorer in XP.In Win98, I can hit Ctrl-Alt-Del and click End Process.In XP, if I end the process my desktop just stays blank (except for wall paper)How might I test my tray icon's ability to re-create i...

Hey There,A while back, all of a sudden, my computer started rebooting automatically every once in a while. I would sit in front of the computer, surf the net (nothing special) and all of a sudden the computer would reboot... When it started again, there was a "Windows Error" Dialog - One of those e...

Hello,<br/>I have this HP tray icon that will pop-up and disappear every couple of seconds. Everytime I move my pointer over it, it will disapper again.<br/>Any suggestions about getting rid of it?<br/>Thanks

I tried to copy the whole windows directory (windows xp home) to another folder as a backup, but i could not do it because some files are being used by windows. Please tell me how to do it. I tried to boot the system to pure dos by creating a bootable cd, but i could not access to drive c:. If i can...

I want to limit the access a Windows account user has to websites. For a given Windows account I want the individual to be only able access one website, for example: *.pbskids.org<br/>ANy IDeas?

I have a machine running Windows XP Pro SP2 with 256 MB RAM. I am having a lot of issues with performance. I know that 256 isn't a lot but its not like I'm running photoshop or autoCAD. I need the machine for running Visual Studio and its versious tools.I have a lot of issues with simple t...

I have WinXP & it doesn't allow any program to be installed with a limited account. However, when we right click the installer, it has the "Run As" option, in which you can enter the admin login n pass & the application will install. I want to do the same in the program i'm writing. It sho...

As in Win98, the Registry info is saved in System.dat file (i guess), whats the filename & path in WinXP?

Background:- domain server Windows 2000 Server- 4 Windows 2000 clients- 2 Windows XP clientsProblem:The Windows XP systems take forever to access/read/write shared folders in the domain. The Windows 2K systems have no problem accessing the XP systems' shared folders.Any clue on what could cause...

I would like to ask if anyone knows a workaround to our problem. The problem is bad performance due to a problem with Opportunistic Locking in some Windows versions, and is documented in this knowledge base article: http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=306981Whilst not on the list, we verified that thi...

i partitioned my pc and now have drive c and drive d (each one installed one os). can i use other software like ghost to partition on my drive c again so that i can have drive e. i want to install another os on drive e. thanks

Hello all.<br/>Please help me if you can. I have the following problem:<br/>have to start some process automatically while my win2000 computer is booting up but before the Login/Password screen...<br/>Anybody knows what and how can i modify in registry to do it?<br/>Thanks in advance.

I'm running XP and I don't know what I'm doing. I'm trying to change the background graphic but the display properties desktop features are all disabled. As far as I can tell the account I'm using an administrator. Anybody know what I'm missing here?

hi i have a problem on accessing our network since our administrator change the way we access on computers thru ipaddress and not using computer name. <br/>example:<br/>\\192.168.0.62<br/>instead of <br/>\\computername<br/>How do I configure this? <br/>thanks

Hi, trying to set up clustering with vmware. Following instructions on the following articles:REF 1 Set up VMware to install Windows clusters. http://techrepublic.com.com/5100-1035_11-1058354.htmlREF 2 Using the VMware SCSI Disk Driver for Windows Guest Operating Systems. http://www.vmware.com/suppo...

Hi everybody,I'm developing a application to run over Windows XP embedded and have some troubles withthe usb flash memory handling.My application needs to do some job when a USB flash memory is Removed/Inserted in any available USB port.I am using the Windows Messages WM_DEVICECHANGE with the f...

A friend has emailed to ask me if and how he can upgrade his Windows 2.11 CE system to 3.0. I'm more a programming (not OS) person, so is there anyone who can point me in the right direction, please? All I know is it looks like he has a very old version on his PDA! (I searched the MSDN site and...

My uncle says that he can't use the Windows 98 backup accessory because file sizes for Windows 98 are limited to 16GB. Therefore a backup to disk fails. It is surprising to me that the Windows 98 backup accessory is limited in this manner. Has anyone used the Windows 98 backup accessory to do a...