Hi Folks,<br/> Can anyone tell me how windows(OS) generated PID for each process alive. and how does it organise these PIDs.<br/>Can someone give me algorithm or any link to the resouce on this issue.<br/>i shall be very thankful to u<br/>Thanks & Regards<br/> Sanju

I currently Have: Windows XP Professional Sp2Im looking to get Windows Xp Media Center Edition 2005.Is it worth it.Im a home user, I love to play games, Listen to music, and work with ALOT Of software like Adobe stuff and Microsoft Office stuff. Also I do web designing, and Alot of other computer ta...

When people create a consol windows project in vc++, it output onely one cmd prompt ? What if I'd like to output 2 or 3 at the same time ? Is that possible ? Thank you

Hello, Can anyone help to have a solution for the following scenario :1) After I bootup MS-DOS, some of windows xp/me commands (32 bit programs e.g. ipconfig.exe, attrib.exe)2) When I run these programs, it give errors : the programs cannot be in DOS mode3) I know DOS is 16-bit and these programs...

Hi There,<br/>Can anybody pls tell me how windows updates the dlls.. or in other words how patch managment works?<br/>Thanks,<br/>dhani99

Any ideas? I don't even know where it is.

Hi all, Our organization has used the User Management Resource Administrator to setup most of our Active Directory structure. We exported our financial data for each employee to CSV, and imported it in to AD. Worked real well and made our deployment much, much easier. Now, I'm using the User Ma...

Has anyone seen IIS Hang when a COM Object makes a call to a SQL Database on 2003 Server?

I am using windows 2000 professional with SP3.<br/>When I use the computer, after some time I get an error of svchost crashing and cut paste stops. not can I move(drag and drop) icons...<br/>What could be wrong ? <br/>How do I correct it ?<br/>Please Help.<br/>Thank You.

I use WMPlayer10 for music-listening. Do you know how Album Art could be made so as to be brought up whenever WMPlayer is called?Second, how can other visualizations get activated when a music file is played ? Is it the same as calling another process with ShellExcecute, spawn, etc. I believe it not...

Hello,I had created a batch file which is needed to be executed before shutting down the Windows. Is it possible if the user click the shutdown of any kind of Windows OS, it will execute first the batch file I created before continuing shutting down the Windows OS? If this problem can be solve thr...

hii wanna format my c drive but when i appl the command format c: then a message appears saying that "c can not be formatted coz volume is in proocess ,should it be dismounted?" for that i apply "y" but again the message appears t hat volume cannot be dismounted --so i wanna know that wats the vol...

Hi friends, I need your help, please, I have a problem with WinXP I can't to start without the dialog of session of user, I no want to put my user and password to begin the session, why?, before it's starting with just the Message Wellcome, but now I don't know what's happen, I c...

Hello,I am using Windows XP pro, and I have problems installing MS SQL Server 2000. During the installation the setup stops responding. When I open the task manager, I see that the pzgcdwf.exe process is taking 99% of the processor time. If I "End task" it, it starts again. This process exists befor...

Hi experts,I have two questions, in Page Replacement methods, one of them is Least Frequently Use...now I want to know is there any other method to solve the failures of this method? we know OS's should distinguish Working Sets I wanted to know how an Operating System could distinguish them? I...

I need some help - basially i keep getting redirected to a website - (i have checked that its not spyware or virus) Looks like some kind of DNS poisoning. Because I've tried different DNS servers and then its ok. But when i use my windows 2003 server DNS it keeps re-directing me - and its re...

Hi,I've recently purchased a dell computer with Media Center 2005 OS. When I install IIS, both of my dvd drives are disable. Trouble shooting indicates that my dvd drivers are corrupted. I can use system restore to go back, but no IIS is installed, and I need that before I can install my Vis...

I am trying to automate norton ghost on several computers. The problem is that some of these computers do not have floppy drives. I am working with norton 7.5 and Easy cd creator 5 platnium on windows XP and 2000. From what I have read the CD has to be windows 98 format for norton ghost to boot pro...

hi All<br/>I am using winXp. While booting the system Using WinXp no items are comming. Only that Xp blank screen is comming, No desktop icons, no status bar. How to recover it. I don't have Xp bootable CD <br/>thanks and regards

hi<br/>how can i enter in the main set up of comp i.e i want to format my window but since it cant be done directly so i have to enetr through the main setup so how can i?secondly wast ntfs pro which can arise due to such formating n how can i cop with it?<br/>thanxx n bye

Hello, in Hardware/Device Manager (win XP) I found under system devices (among others):1. System CMOS/Real Time Clock IRQ 082. System Timer IRQ 00 Can someone please explain what is purpose of RTC and System Timer. I suppose to count time but I'm not sure. Also what is difference between RTC an...

In what conditions the dialog ask for user name, password and domain will be triggered, after open IE for browing?

I'm running WinXP with Service Pack 2 and Crystal 8.0 on it. I try and set up a SQL connection using ODBC. When I try and run the app, I get a Run time error '20536' Unable to logon to server message. It seems to work fine running on WinXP with Service Pack 1 but not with SP 2. D...

HiIn my computer the registy item for application event log size is set to zero(it should be minimum 64kb). i have seen that the file size of the appevent is 64kb.and when i open the event viewer some time i observe event log corrupt. and all the events will be lost.can you please explain the reason...

hi <br/> process error in windows. here iam attaching the error msg

I am back again with another DOs question.I am trying to make a network bootdisk for my PCMCIA Intel PRO/100 cardbus II on my IBM A31p labtop. I cna get the card to work in windows XP but not in DOS. I execute the enabler ( CBcombo.exe ) before i load the driver but everytime i get the same error: w...

Hi guys,I want to convert disk 0 on the Windows 2003 web server to dynamic. I know how to do this but I get this warning before I accept the changes:"After you convert these disks to dynamic, you will not be able to start other installed operating systems from any volume on these disks. Are you sure...

need detailed information about win 2k 's memory managament uniti searched on google but was unable to find any info.in particular i want to know 2k kernel' s policy for swapping pages from the memory ie on what basics does the kernel decide which page is to be swapped if a page fault occu...

I use WinXP OS.<br/>Sometimes when I do nothing at all, the "cisvc.exe" process takes more than 50% CPU and 100~300M memory resource, and there seems to be some hard disk operations.<br/>Is there something wrong?

Dear allI had faced a problem that due to corrupt of my Operating System (Win 2003 Server) on c: drive, I reinstall the OS on C: Drive (in Installation I had select Format and New Installation). After completion of installation, On my all other drives (d:,e:,f:,g: ) all data get corrupted. I can wat...

I had faced a problem that due to corrupt of my Operating System (Win 2003) on c: drive, I reinstall the OS on C: Drive (in Installation I had select Format and New Installation). After completion of installation, On my all other drives (d:,e:,f:,g: ) all data get corrupted. I can watch all folders...

I recently had a problem with a computer of mine that has everything of mine on it. I have nothing backed up, as it was going to be the backup for another new computer, but I had only started moving stuff onto the new one. Something caused it to 'lose' my product key. Windows will not star...

I don't know if this is the appropriate place for this, so moderators please relocate it, if needed.I have been asked by my employers to setup web access rights on our computer systems so that users will only be able to access a limited number of sites otherwise they cannot get anywhere. For ex...

Please can someone help me how to run a program (e.g. notepad) using windows xp registry? Also how to stop a startup program, <br/>Also pls someone help me how to create users and set security settings on users using registry. (win XP) <br/>Please help me. I will be very thankful.

I installed mandrake on my computer, I have only 30gb, 15 for win 15 for linux, I left 5 for win when trying to installed linux, means I used only 10 gb for linux. Now, I can't find the left free 5 gb anywhere on my system, how can I find it ?<br/>Thanks<br/>-have a nice day anyway...:)

Hi all...I'm a newbie so excuse me if my question is stupid :)My question is: I need a certificate to sign my Infopath templete and make it full trust. To do so, I need a signing code certificate with "Key Usage" attribute set to "Both" or "Signature". I tried to request a certificate to my Com...

Hi, I want to create users and apply security settings on them using registry (win XP). I know how to do it from control panel, but as for studies assignment I have to do it through registry. Can someone help me how to do this? <br/>I shall be very thankful for it.

Pls someone help me, I want to show date, time and computer name on the windows logon dialog box through registry. I know how to display message on logon dialog box through registry, but I want to know how to put time, date and computer name on it.<br/>Thank you

Can someone help me how to show a message to user just AFTER he/she logon to the computer? (just the way we can show a message to user BEFORE he/she logon, through the 'legal notice message' in registry).I am using win xp pro and want to display a message to every user after he logons to m...

I had bought a new PC last month (P4 3.2 Ghz LGA775), and installed a fresh copy of Windows XP (SP2). But it was today that I noticed something very strange. This computer was not acting so perfectly as my old one - ofcourse its all to do with the software. The problem is that, when I type 'cmd...

Anyone know how to monitor bandwidth utilization between two physical servers (Application and database)? I know how to monitor number of byte the NIC's are sending and receiving, but I need to find out if the connection between the two is underutilized/overutilized. How can I do that? I found...

Question 1:Guys, what's the difference between:1. Processor\%Processor Time - Total2. Process\%Processor Time - TotalSee attached image "perfmon_ProcessorVsProcessor.JPG" - the two are different! Question 2:Also, how can it max over 100% at 101.563%?Question 3:I have access to another server w...

is it possible to restrict users from playing video games through windows registry (win xp professional)? can someone help me about it?I know the way to restrict specific applications through registry(using DisallowRun key), but for it I have to give the application's exe file name. But how can...

Hi,<br/>My HP Kayak XU8000 is working fine with Win 2k; However, It doesn't work with Win XP and Win 2003.<br/>After I install Win XP then reboot. It hang right there.<br/>Do I need change some thing in order to install WinXP?<br/>Thank you very much,<br/>Dave Le

I have a machine with 1.5GB memory (Total Physical Memory). I started logging "Available MBytes" performance counter and it hovers, relatively stable, around 960 MB.Now, what can I say about this figure? What's "Available MByte"? Should anything above zero be a good sign? That there's spar...

I want to restrict users from running programs/applications from command prompt. I dont want to restrict users from using command prompt, but I want to restrict them only from running programs/applications (.exe files) from command prompt. Actually I have restricted some programs using DisallowRun k...

Hello, I own a compaq nx7000 laptop with windows XP. I have recently encountered an "Invalid System Time" alert pop-up message box appears everytime I login. The message is as follow: "The time or date on your system is invalid. Please use the date/time applet in the Control Panel to properly set yo...

I just installed XP Pro and M$ Office 2003. How can I auto start Outlook in iconic mode then I boot the computer? I copied a shortcut to my Startup menu -- that works but Outlook doesn't start iconed. Anyone know if that's even possible?<br/>Thanks

Please don't ask why I need to know, but are there any issues I should be concerned about regarding migrating a PC from Windows XP to 2000?<br/>If you're REALLY curious to know why, PM me.

Hi I have DirectX 9b on my pc. For my most recent applications I will need directX 9c, so I downloaded the latest sdk+runtime (june 2005). But the installer refuses to add the new files (obviously noticing directx 9something thinks it doesn't need to), so i was thinking that there must be way t...