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...

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....

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...

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...

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

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

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...

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

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...

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...

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:

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...

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...

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

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...

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

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...

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?

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...

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

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.