Hi,<br/> <br/>I want to know about GetBIOS.exe.<br/>What is it.........<br/> <br/> <br/> <br/> <br/> <br/> <br/> <br/>*

In order for an unknown virus not to infect a file, what should i do ?<br/>I downloaded a virus

I need a batch file to ask user to log on before using my windowsmedia<br/>Some computers in a room, each user must have a pass before s/he can use any soft from server. How and what shold i do ? thanks

How can I know the minimum number of processes for windows to get started ?? <br/>Also, which one is first initialised among them? <br/>Thank you

Dear Friends,Yesterday when i tried to boot up my computer a badge like thing appeared,Something like your software may not be genuine etc .But I am having a legit CD of WinXP SP1 & they also have supplied earlier a free CD of SP2 to me ,I never use any pirated Cd's whatsoever.The major fact is...

Sometimes when I click on a link I see a lot of squates with a small X in the upper left corner, I think those are supposed to be pictures. I'm using XP Pro with all service packs installed. when I open the Add/Remove Programs window it shows J2SE Runtime Environment is installed. Anyone kno...

When running Terminal Server 2003 I need to prevent the users from clicking on the 'x' and disconnecting their sessions. Is this possible with some setting or GPO?Also some SBS 2003 RWW connections are getting an ambiguous internal error messsage and kicking them out. Thanks...

HiI've been tasked with investigating if AD could be used to replace an administration section of our product.What we essentially need to do (in C# using .Net 2.0) would be too create org units that can manage themselves to a certain extent and control permissions of a web based system.The leve...

Don't know if anyone still uses it :rolleyes: ... but I need help on Windows 98 problem.I deleted all Windows users but at boot time it keeps asking for a username and pwd.This prevents my old PC to go live unatended (no kbd, no mouse, no screen on it :cool: ).Any idea would be appreciated.than...

Greetings , has everyone tried to install all features listed whileinstalling the 'longhorn TP 7' Some of XP System files are not loaded I.e Icons, etc... i am currently on 'Windows XP Sp2' the theme.dll was patched succesfully is XP somehow blocking this action?! ---------------...

Hi all,I have PC with Windows XP.I have a stand alone PC witch run an application managing a machine.I want to stop the windows services not needed to make the computer more quickly.When I enter the windows services list I don't know what can disturbe the PC operations.Can you please tell me w...

Hello all.Have some strange problem with win2k registry.Have to change value of some field in registry with a script.There i use:rundll32.exe setupapi,InstallHinfSection DefaultInstall 132 "c:\myFile.inf"And it doesnt work. I get the "installation failed" pop up window.When i`m trying to install myF...

Hi,I have a batch file that syncs 2 folders .. The problem is that part sits in a *.bat file and then the rest gets typed into command prompt.Code:sync.batXCOPY "%1" "%2" /D /I %3XCOPY "%2" "%1" /D /I %3Then type into command prompt:sync C:\test D:\test /SI have been trying to put all the code into...

Hi All,I wrote a server program using tcp sockets.my server listens on a particular IP address and port number when it comes up.I made this program as a windows service ,which starts automatically when ever windows bootsup.During start up my program gets all the IP addresses on that machine and open...

recently i used outlook 2000 and got virus problem. please tell me how to block the virus come in. i have tried to block the attachments and also read some articles and tried to add value in registry, but no use.<br/>thanks in advance.

Hi. I want to convert an excel cell from date to string. I have found the following:=TEXT(D3;"d/M/yyyy")where D3 is the cell containing the date.Unfortunatelly the returned value is #VALUE. Any ideas?Regards,TheodorePS: I've tested it in Excel XP and 2003....

I am having a problem where I am passing in a parameter to a batch file:Parameter being passed: "/XD FolderIgnore /XD "Ignore Folder" "That is the exact parameter with spaces, but when I echo the parameter I get this:"/XD FolderIgnore /XD "IgnoreIf I remove the space : "/XD FolderIgnore /XD "IgnoreF...

Hi,We are seeing a problem after we perform AUTO UPDATE on a machine where our application is running. Our application got shut down by windows...only when editing BUTTONS with COLOR in our application. This happened AFTER windows AUTO UPDATE and was working fine before.. Other computer without AUTO...

i recently found out about these .scf files 'the windows explorer command files' .saw the quick desktop file...with the coding(in text mode)i was very curious about this file...but could not find details,command list etc about such files....plz share any information u hav about these files...

i found a few folders which remained hidden even if i switched 'show hidden files or folders' on...i found out that the hidden option was 'greyed' or disabled in its properties section...how can i do this...i mean how can i disable the attributes of a file or a folder?plz helpthn...

Hello friends I am calling an exe from command line with some parameters.I have to pass three sets of parameters..with each set has 4 parameters.So I need a seperator for different sets.I have to use "|" (PIPE) operator as seperator.But it has different meaning in DOS. Is there any chance to chan...

HiI've got a little question about the Windows system variables. I came across this because installing a new Platform SDK caused Visual Studio to lose it (VS 2005 doesn't find windows.h anymore while VC++ 6.0 works just fine). Anyway I got all that fixed but here are my questions/assumptio...

Hello, I have tried a few things here to fix my own problem, but running out of ideas now. I have also tried doing a search on this, but turned up nothing that could help me. I got a few hits on different windows starting up - but none of the solutions offered worked for me. So I am hoping maybe so...

I am trying to integrate a COTS document management software into Windows in order to provide integration for all Windows apps. To do this, my proposed design is to add a new item in the Look In/Save As dropdowns in the common File Open/Save dialog boxes. Typically, the items in the control are driv...

All,The below is a script for mail enabling a contact. It fails with error code 8000500d. Observere that it has Japanese charactersstrOU = "OU=FSP,DC=RAVIDOM80"strContactCN = "CN=ЎкюǼ"strEmailAddr = "Agramzow@AcmeConsulting.com"strDisplayName = "sderytry"Set objOU = GetObject(...

I am trying to write a batch file that will move a file to a folder named after the file. For example: File is data03.ext I want to move this file to a folder named data03 This folder will have to be created by the batch file. Each time this batch file will be run it will be a different filena...

How to check on WinXP whether current Internet connection has public IP address (is not behind NAT) ?<br/> <br/>thank you for help

Hello all,I am new to Active directory and will appreciate any help re. the following issue: I need to get a list of all users that are currently logged in Windows 2003 server. I have to do it from Linux workstation. Can it be done using Active directory? How? If not, please let me know if there is...

Hi,I have reason to believe that Windows' built-in SORT command is buggy. I'm experiencing it with XP SP1 with all current updates (Aug.20.06).Here's one way to reproduce it:create a text file containing this:aABbrRSsXxYyzZAs you can see it only has a mix of a few upper and lower cas...

Hi,<br/>I would like to convert win 98 boot disk on flopy to CD. Is it possible? if yes please teach me how.<br/>Thank you very much,<br/>Dave

All I'm looking to do is put this into a batch file that I can double click and have it run:I'm not aware of why it's not working. Here is the DOS commandcopy C:\Documents and Settings\rmac\Local Settings\Application Data\Microsoft\Outlook\*.pst G:\Administrative\RMac\email...

i developed one web site.it will work in IE.but some images not displayed in mozilla firebox.depending uponthe browser alignment also changed.can u tel me any idea to avoid this problem<br/>by<br/>Anitha<br/>yes we are using javascript in client side .how can i change this coding

hello freinds,<br/>can anybody tell how can i get WMF sdk i.e. for DRM..<br/>Is it a freeware?<br/>Any other alternate that is a freeware/open source?<br/>thanks

Hi,i am using windows2003 server edition.How can I create a batch file which can open another batch file and execute all command which is written in same batch file.I am calling a batch file through VB and that batch file calls other batch file where I want to execute some commands.Example:batch fil...

I have noticed that when I install programs such as Skype or MSN it adds some registry entries to HKCR (HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT), and this was done even if I'm logged in as regular user (not power user or administrator). How is this possible? I though only administrator or power user have access to...

Hello , i have NT server 4.0 as domain controller , i set login script to execute NOTEPAD.EXE at every LOGIN.I have win 98 client machine which is under domain of NT server.whenever i login the notepad.exe gets executed and it gives error message saying Page fault and print all the register values a...

hi ,<br/> we are developing one website in tamil by using unicode.The font name is TheneeUniTx, but in mozilla and opera tha font will display in wrong format.thana will change.how to solve this problem.can u tell me anybody. <br/>By <br/>Anitha

As we know that there are 7 IO port registers for IDE interface. And we could send ATA command through ATA_PASS_THROUGH or SCSI_PASS_THROUGH with DeviceIoControl().<br/>If I need to access one of these register directly, how to do that?

I am trying to install an MSI package that contains 3 merge modules, installed initially by "Visual Studio .net 2003" into "C:\Program files\common files\merge modules\" directory. These modules together install these DLLs:mfc71.dllmfc71u.dllmsvcr71.dllmsvcp71.dllOn one VMware system containing Jap...

Hello.A computer (call it "A") with Windows XP Pro can enter in all the shared folders of all the computers in the LAN and can see all the computers in the LAN.However nobody can enter in the shared folders of A. The strange thing is that A appears in the list of computers in the LAN but when you cl...

I installed windows xp and windows server 2003 in "c:"(first install windows xp and then windows server 2003) .I think, when I installed windows xp,some files belonging go windows xp might have been rewritten which leads to some problem:I find that I can run asp project on windows server 2003(just...

Hi all,<br/>Is there a way to check, via a batch script, whether a specific Windows Service is up??<br/>Thanks,<br/>Amir.

Hi all,In a cluster scenario , Printer driver upgrade/update is done based on time-stamp comparision till now. Lets say when i install some HP drivers , xxx.exe ( version 1.4 ) is also installed on the Cluster. By somemeans , i have updates the version of xxx.exe to 1.5 . And now if i install...

Hello all,<br/>I have to develop a data synchronization module using C/C++. First I have to find out what is the algorithm for full synchronization between Active Directory and Postgress. Can you help me ?<br/>Thanks in advance,<br/>Maya

My OS is windows 2000 server, my hard disk is formated as FAT32, I don't know whether windows2000 server in fat disk can be an IIS server, db server and domain server? or I have to change my hard disk to NTFS? :confused:

Hi all,<br/>I have to parse .ldif file in order to perform "full sync" of AD with DB. If you ever did parsing of .ldif file in C/C++, I would appreciate any help from you.<br/>Thank you in advance

I am using XP 2005.When I go to Network Places->Entire Netwok->Microsoft Windows Network, I see the following structure:HamachiMsHome -- ComputerA -- ComputerBWorkGroup -- Administrator -- DeskTop -- RupeshFollowing are my questions:1. I had never seen this "Hamac...

Hi all,A mounth ago I bought a brand new keyboard.But when I connected the keyboard to my computer I discoveredit is very slow keyboard.then I went to the control panel and set the speed to full.but still the keyboard is very slow!!I remembered that my previous keyboard was very fast and with the sa...

On my laptop - I can connect to Active Directory only if I specify the binding string as WinNT://<domain name>/<server>/<user>The server is the name of the domain control server.Any other name beside <server> (which is the name of the domain controller server) does not work....

I'm trying to garner a feel for anonymous login implications with regards to Windows security. That said, consider the information per the link: http://www.microsoft.com/resources/documentation/windows/xp/all/proddocs/en-us/windows_security_differences.mspx?mfr=trueMore specifically, Windows a...