About 6 months ago, the old PC was dropped and we had to get it repaired. Ever since then, whenever the button is switched on to turn the PC on, the CD-Rom drive opens. Anyone have any idea why it does this?

AVG comes up whenever I sign on to my profile (am always connected to the internet) and over the last few days or so I've been continually been getting a message coming up that I have a Trojan horse/virus of some sort. Do try deleting or healing the file but I keep getting told that (for some u...

Hi!! i am using windows 2000 Professional edition in my system. when ever i switch on the system i get a pop up message "could not find file 'c:\winnt\system32\svohost.exe' ". i checked all the files and folders. but i could not find this file. i have also tried on the microsoft site bu...

Hi!! I have an error some times like "Registry size is too small. increase the size of the registry." but i have checked my system and am sure i have installed more softwares. i have recently updated the windows. and i have some softwares like .net, SQL, etc...how can i rectify this error? is it...

I am able to disable Alt-s using RegisterHotKey(Handle, 904, MOD_ALT, VkKeyScan('s'))I am also able to disable Ctrl-v usingRegisterHotKey(Handle, 905, MOD_CONTROL, VkKeyScan('v'))But I am not able to disable Ctrl-esc usingRegisterHotKey(Handle, 906, MOD_CONTROL, VK_ESCAPE) Seems...

Have anyone encountered corrupt help files in VB.I have an experience which has left me dazed. The MSDN help is integrated with the VB.I can open it by pressing 'f1' key. But the links like "Related links","Top","Next" etc.. don't work.Infact I can only see a square box with a central...

I have a client application (Windows XP SP2) that uses a mapped drive to a server (windows 2000 domain controller). Each time the user wants to use the application they have to enter username and passwod to login to the mapped drive.There are several Windows 2000 PC's using this app with the s...

Hi , I have a network which has some number around 60 pc's WinXP and are going to connect to a Unix server. I have already configured printer on Unix server to print on PC's. Unix Serever has some 15 printers installed and goal is to be able to print to all of them from any PC.Is there a w...

Doubt this is virus-related but can't think of any other reason why this would happen, anyway:Switched the PC on this morning and as normal went on to my profile, usually, the first things that come up are AVG virus scanner and MSN. This morning they didn't, which I found slightly weird. S...

Hey,I have a Windows 98 workstation that is behaving rather badly. The reason that it is a Windows 98 workstation is that it has an app that runs on it that uses a vxd. For now the computer and its workstation do their job. Normally on a cold boot, I get an hourglass that frequently shows up, and...

I have a network bootable CD that silently ghosts a systems and then reboots to windows. I need to have the same CD execute once the user logs into windows. I do not want the user to have to run the CD-ROM manually. I can not modify the ghost image, b/c there are too many of them. I've been w...

Ok, here's the problem. I have my DSL connection and it works fine with my Linux OS, but whenever I use it in Windows, it disconnects at random times unexpectedly. My instant messenger simply looses the connection and that's that, I can't view some other page on my browser, but the li...

I have never worked with SBS server but have been warned about its use with MS Office 2003 - possible incompatibility issues ??Is there a problem running these 2 systems together ?I have also developed under VB a Faxing system using MS XP Fax as the basis for faxing so I can send fax broadcasts unde...

Hi everyone. I want to access a remote directory (which is shared), under win2000. Can I do this using simply the Win. Explorer (e.g. using the ip address?).<br/>Regards,<br/>Theodore

I have 512mb of RAM. Why does windows tell me I have 192mb of RAM? Does it use all of the 512mb of RAM?

Hi I'm in a bit of a bind with my DNS server. Currently its returning the wrong information for a few addresses like yahoo and aol. I found this out because we were having problems emailing to those domains and they kept bouncing. When we switched the DNS gateway to another server the emails w...

Hi All Gurus,I have created few html pages, which are linked with a master page for Intranet use.I have installed Tomcate.I have also installed J2SE.Now problem is that I don't have any idea how activate my master page so that user can just enter name rajeevtech.com and the master page get acti...

Hi All,I have windows XP Pro installed and through control panel/Users I have a password set against the Administrator account.When the system first boots, I need to enter the password set from control panel/users and i am then logged in through administrator. If i leave the machine doing a job and...

Hello I was wondering if I could secure a second hard drive on windows 2k pro. Let me explain, I have 2 hard drives connected to the system With NT file system (not partitions) and I can access the 2nd Hard drive through windows explorer, my computer w/e. I would like to secure the second hard drive...

Hi all,I used to be under the impression that if we select a printer as default, then any application that invokes a print command will automatically select the default printer to print. But something proved me wrong. I opened a notepad and selected print. The first time it correctly highlighted the...

I want to disable system log to be generated in my Windows XP System. How to do that ? Is there any registry key which I can change for the same ?

Hi all,It is more of a windows question than Visualc++ related.My questions are regarding the windows display settings.[1]How Can I set "large","small" fonts settings under windows.Iam using WinXp & If I go to ControlPanel->Display,(Darstellung Tab,Iam using a German wINxP),I see the font->Nor...

I want global address book in my outlook contacts..<br/>I have installed Exchange server 2003.<br/>I am not getting global address book.......<br/>what should i do?<br/>This might not be correct place to post this thread...<br/>Sorry.........

Hello Friends<br/>Can anybody help me out in knowning how to configure Windows Update.<br/>I want that at a stipulated time the Automatic Update should start on its own<br/>On a fixed time<br/>With Rgds<br/>VC++

My XP problem.Whenever I boot and input my password to log in mycomputer, it also says something about NETBIOS*, and that I am unable to change my password. I have never really understood why my system goes crazy like that, since when I has added or wanted to add anything in my NETBIOS anyway...it i...

If you open a SaveDialog box and you save a file to path "C:\example\test.txt" for example, then you cannot rename or delete the folder "example" until you close the application. An error message appears and tells us that the folder is in use by another application. You can see the problem if you s...

Hi. I am using msconfig in XP to add\remove programs from startup. How can I do this in win 2000 server? I tried run-->msconfig but didn't work.<br/>Thanx in advance,<br/>Theodore

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...

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 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...

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...

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...

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...

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?

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,<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 :)

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