Is there a way to restrict users to 1 folder when using remote connection?<br/>Or can it be done another way whereby they log on to the server but get their own desktop and restricted access to installing software, etc.?

Hi everyone. I have a problem when trying to opena docx file (probably created in Word 2007). I am using office 2003. Any ideas how can I achieve this?<br/>Thanx in advance,<br/>Best Regards,<br/>Theodore

Hi all,<br/>how can I get users from Ldap with attribute isDeleted==FALSE using Ldap API C function ldap_search ?<br/>thanks in advance,<br/>Maya

Is there anything other then the IP address changes that one would need to take account for when performing a T1 upgrade from a DSL line? i have Small Business Server 2003 SP1 running with ISA Server 2004 SP1 and I believe all that I need to do after the phone company changes the dsl modem to the T1...

I'm relitively new to Windows 2000 and Domain management.I've already crashed our server once: (Luckily I wasn't hired only becuase of my Network Administration skills)I want to make an account not be able to get on to the internet.I already have blocked access to Internet Explorer (t...

Hi everyone. I am using SmartFtp as an ftp client. I want to upload a large amount of data on my server. The problem is that after uploading some files the uploading process fails. "Transfer failled" Error). Any ideas?<br/>Thanx in advance,<br/>Theodore

We need to modify the 'Interact with desktop' setting of a windows service through the registry.One of the options is to do this through a bat file invoking regedit.<br/>Is there any other option through which registry entries can be manipulated through batch scripts?

Hey, I have a little bit of a problem. I have a pc in my room (this one) and my brother, every once in a while will log on to the pc as administrator and change my rights and whatnot, sometimes my files. I know there is a lock pc command, but is there one that can keep the pc locked up no matter wha...

Hi all,i'm a newbie in the coding world. Now i'm facing with a trouble that how can i collect all window class name kinds (like WindowsForms10.Window.8.0.2bf8098,WindowsForms10.Window.8.app.0.2bf8098, WindowsForms10.Window.8.app.1,WindowsForms10.Window.8.app.2..etc.). Because i have a capt...

can not start xp firewall (sp2), how to fix that manually without reinstall xp? thanks in advance for helps.

How to get (under WinXP) the name/type of mother board?

We have some applications that make use of COM objects developed in VB6 and also make use of the SOAP toolkit 3.0 and now these do not work in Vista. This is happening whether we install the apps on a Vista PC or upgrade from XP to Vista and the applicatiosn were already installed and working in XP....

How can I make my color monitor show only in gray scale?

Hi,I'm converting EMF files into PDF by using Windows to enum the records - in general this is working well but there is an odd problem with text - which only appears for a Brazilian (Portuguese) user.Basically the text is stored using unicode which in ASCII is "VLOYLD" but this should be "silv...

Hello,my software communicates with an electronic devicevia UDP, port 165. On some computers (networkadapters)the UDP pakets from the device are discarded, because ofchecksum errors. The checksum is calculated correctly,you can see the pakets in Ethereal (with checksum error).How can I solve this pr...

A while back I saw a flash drive that the owner changed to act like a CD-ROM. When he plugged it in to the USB a CD showed up with autoplay features. Anyone know how to do this? I have searched and found nothing.EDIT: Further explanation.I want to make this happen on all PCs, so this cannot be a sof...

how to ping remote system running on Windows 2000 using WMI<br/>is there any patch for windows 2000 to ping remote system using win32_pingstatus class<br/>thanks

I was wondering about if it is possible to have something like this in windows:<br/>If ExecutableName = "cxfl*.exe" Then DONT_RUN<br/>any help appreciated

Hey guys. I am worried that my Windows Update is not detecting updates properly. It has been a while since I have had an update, and on other computers the IE7 update is found.According to the update log on the WU site, the last update was Windows Malicious Software Removal Tool - November 2006 (KB8...

hello, how do you shutdown remotely a pc if both pc's are on a network using Windows XP Prof..<br/>Thanks to all

I installed IE7 on WinXP Professional SP2 via Win AutoUpdate. After reboot, my taskbar became like picture below. Restart PC again, this problem may disappear, may reappear.I use this PC for years and never encounter this before. It's also not like a virus, and I fully scanned my PC recently wi...

Hi all,when I try to connect my laptop to an Access Point, appear a "baloon" (icon) in the left/right part of the Windows desktop asking me to "select a certificate or other credentials for connection to the network..." .I don't need that credentials since I am already authenticated , so I wan...

I'm trying to debug my C++ code so I have it printing to the command line and it is printing a character which looks like a spade (from a pack of cards). I'm more used to unix and I can't work out what this character is supposed to represent. Can anyone help?

My wife did something to our home computer (she doesn't know how) and asked if I could fix it. For the life of me, I have never seen this before (at least on a Windows box, i.e. XP SP2), and have looked everywhere I could think of to try to fix this. Failing that, I then look all over the net...

Hello,I need to retieve UPN (User Principal Name) for a user under Active Directory.I want to use ADSI and C++ to get that.Can anyone help me with thisI am new to ADSI.I tried for some sample app but no successI know you can query the attribute for a user but how?thanks in advance...

I am trying to write a small program that will hide the desktop icons. I tried the reg edit thing but you have to restart explorer when you hide/show them. I also tried this. x=0 will show the desktop x!=0 will hide it.HWND hw; hw = FindWindowEx(0,0,"Progman", NULL); ShowWindow(hw, x);...

Hi!I am currently doing some testing on WIndows Vista. I run a Vista virtual machine from my XP machine.I have developed some very simple applications using Visual Studio 2005, and created a msi installer by using InstallSHield12.First I created a Win32 console app; This worked without any problems...

Hi guys...I use to work with softice in win98 and used a command bpx k213 and k211...Does anyone here know the equivelant commands for WinXP??<br/>tia

I have a problem with xcopy, when I try to copy a folder it copies the contents of the folder to the destination. The attribute I use is /S. <br/>Is there any way to copy the root folder with the xcopy command

Anybody know if <br/>(1) MS SQL express will work on Win POS??<br/>(2) if feild level encryption will work on MS SQL Express on Win POS??

IE7 brags of new security features. One of them is automatically detecting intranet networks. Well, we need that disabled on all computers on our network so we made a .reg file to change the registry.It turns out that IE7 overrides the registry on start up. So, what truly contains the settings since...

I need to connect a few offices to a central main office. Started out looking at just a VPN but now I am unsure if it wil work the way I need. I need each remote office to appear to be a local network of the main office but also retain its independance and have a secondary network. I'm no netw...

Where does Windows (XP) make a copy of the My Documents from?<br/>I want my installer to add some documents on a machine wide scope which will get copied into each new users My Documents when the create their account.<br/>Cheers,<br/>Eire.

Hello dev-archive community,I've been trying to install Windows 98 on my laptop under VMware with the purpose of being able to test programming projects of mine under Windows 98 and spot incompatibilities so that I may fix them.Thus far however, various attempt to make it install properly have...

I purchased the pc with 2.8 dual core processor, 1 GB RAM intel 945 chipset...<br/>is it possible to install windows vista os in this... whether it will take all drivers of the chipset...<br/>what abt the performance of the system...<br/>plz help me...

I have a batch file application that executes some commandsI need to invoke this batch file by another new batch file and execute the commands related to it.For Ex:Calculator.bat : executes command like "mov a, b" .Now i need to create a batch file that invokes Calculator.bat and executes "mov a, b"...

hi , i have develop a BHO , however, in IE Addin list, My BHO is a untrusted object.<br/>i want to make BHO be a trusted object, like AcroIEHlprObj Class or Flash object.<br/>if anyone have some method to work out it. please tell me .Thanks in advance!

If I wanted to block a person from viewing a specific message board, but allow them to view all other content from the site, how do i do that? Let's say, for example, I wanted to block espn.com and the dev-archive Windows SDK FAQ's message board, how do i do that and allow access to all o...

1. Does a Windows service always have administrative rights?<br/>If not, can it?<br/>2. Can a service run a .msi to install a program without any user logged on?

Hello folks, I have a question: Is it possible to make my application notified about CD-ROM events? Mostly I am interested at eject notification, I want my app to be able to respond somehow to this event. I have been searching for some MCI command or something, but found nothing useful. I think that...

When I run for example say "notepad" in different PCs, each PCs task manager show different values of "mem usage" "VM size", "Paged pool" and "NP pool". I checked this in similar configuration machines, but even then in both system I got different memory usage??. Why is this soo?. It would be very...

We launch a IE browser from within a windows service and cause the browser to navigate to a particular site using the IWebBrowser2 interface.The code is as fllows:hr=CoCreateInstance(CLSID_InternetExplorer,NULL,CLSCTX_LOCAL_SERVER,IID_IWebBrowser2,(void**)&psIE); if(SUCCEEDED(hr)) { hr=psI...

Hello all,I am writing a batch file in DOS, one of its functions is to search through a file for a string of the format:SOME TEXT WHICH MUST NOT CHANGE Version1.2 MORE CONSTANT TEXTand replace it with:SOME TEXT WHICH MUST NOT CHANGE Version1.3 MORE CONSTANT TEXT or SOME TEXT WHICH MUST NOT CHANGE Ve...

Hello,<br/>Every windows machine has a SID value. I need a way to get the SID value using WMI. But I cannot find the WMI class that enumerates machine sids. There is a Win32_SID class but that returns nothing when I query the class. Any suggestions?<br/>Thanks<br/>Danny

Hello,I need a WMI query that will notify me whenever a new file is created inside specific directory OR any of its subdirectories. I tried to catch __InstanceCreationEvent for CIM_DataFile, but that didn't work... Then I tried to catch the same event for CIM_DirectoryContainsFile. That one wor...

Hi All,<br/>I want to build a customized WinPE with Internet Explorer in to it.<br/>How can I integrate the Internet Explorer in WinPE?<br/>Can any one can help regarding this

Hi there!!We have a problem with the patches you install from Windows Update in Windows Vista.In XP for example, if you go to the registry and look at HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\HotFix, you can see there all the patches installed with Windows Update ("KBxxxxxx".....

Microsoft says that ClickOnce deployment can be used in a case where you need to install an application with an associated file extension. Several sites parrot this information, but nobody seems to have the info on how to do this.I want to associate the extension .dceff with an application installed...

What are the main differences between WSS 3.0 and MOSS 2007 ?<br/>I realise that WSS 3.0 is free but there must be strong reasons why a company would pay for MOSS 2007 over the WSS version?<br/>Thanks

When I open up the command prompt, the current path is always "C:\Documents and Settings\Owner". How can I change that to a different default path? My OS is Windows XP Home Edition, SP2.<br/>p.s. apologies if this is the wrong forum for this question