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...

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...

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...

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".....

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

Hi<br/>Is there a way to deny access to certain ip address?<br/>Some website use clever scripting to pass my pop-up blocker and pop ads<br/>I was wondering if there is a way to deny their ip address altogether

Is there a way to register a COM server that will be available to all users? I use REGSVR32.EXE to register a DLL. But that means every user has to have ADMIN rights on the machine to install the software.<br/>Do I have other options?<br/>Thank you.

Hi,I've read there are some new protections if you install SP2 for XP. One of them is DEP (Data Execution Prevention) which is enabled by OS under /noexecute=<option> param in boot.ini. Does anybody know if this feature could be that doesn't allow to execute some programs. I'm t...

I'm trying to download an audio file from the Internet. I know the URL of the actual audio file, but there is no webpage that links to it, so there is no link that I can right-click on and do "Save Target As".When I type the URL into my web browser (Internet Explorer 7) it launches Windows Medi...

Is there any way to create a folder synonym of another one?Not a direct access, a real folder but being exactly a second name for an existing one.Why? We have a program with a hardcoded folder that we cannot modify and we want it to point to another place (a shared folder in fact).Thks...

How do you create an user account on Windows XP that only loads one program (not even explorer.exe) at startup? I would like to have 2 accounts on the computer. One has the administrative privilege and can access all programs. The other one only runs the desired program, and no access to any oth...

What can I do to speed up XP? I reformatted my computer and this time only installed Home Edition because I thought it used less memory. I Changed a few of the performance settings so try and speed things up and I upgraded my memory, but its still SLOW! Its a fresh install and there is nothing on th...

Hi,I have an issue where when we unplug a USB mouse when an application is running like notepad.exe, the mouse cursor on the activated notepad application disappears. When we reconnect again the mouse the cursor comes back again.The problem is there only on Windows 2000 with USB support for Keypad a...

I have a friend who is using XP to display radiology images that are quite large. He has 4g of memory, but XP only sees 3gb.The problem is that he has an app that needs lots of XMS memory. On my machine, I typed this to the java settings:-Xms 512m I have a gig on my laptop, but when I tried to load...

http://www.5starsupport.com/ipboard/index.php?showtopic=6708&st=0&p=28777&#entry28777<br/>and a follow up : http://forums.techpowerup.com/showthread.php?t=29820

I know I may sound odd, but I really do NOT like the new treeview used for displaying the folders in windows Vista.Is there any setting or registry thing that I can set to get back my old XP-style folders? The new folder Icons in Vista are chubby and harder to get a quick overview over than in XP.Th...

Hi all, I am having a strange problem with my computer. It is a laptop with Windows XP installed as the OS and I cannot open a multiple programs. On doing so, it just hangs. Also, after working for a while it just shuts down like a tv set would do on turning it off. I guess this might be due...

I have downloaded a microcontroller Development software from Atmel, and during installation I got the message that some dlls failed to register. Seeing those dlls with Dependancy Walker, I found that they need mfc80.dll & msvcr80.dll, that I have not (I have MS Visual Studio 6).I found those dlls i...

Hi everyone. I am trying to use my external usb drive (300GB WD, ATA, using an external USB encosure), without success: in particular, the driver is not even displayed in the computer management->disk management of the administration tools in XP.any ideas?(PS: the usb drive is displayed in the "s...

Is it possible to block all attempts to run an application/process from an external device (e.g. usb disk) on my computer. I am running Win XP and Vista.<br/>Any help is deeply appreciated!<br/>Thanks!

Hi everyone. I keep having my home pc crashing under win xp. I formated hard disk and reinstalled win xp but still the problem occurs. To be more particular, when tha crash occurs, the taskbar is simply dead and inactive to any mouse press (the windows respond to the mouse press but very slow). Any...

VB6 installed, and runs with 0 updates. I try to run SP6 and it fails.<br/>Anybody else had the problem? I even downloaded it again.<br/>Fails after I click the AGREE button. No msg.

Is there any way to create a text (or any) file from the Windows command line? Suppose I wanted a text file located in C:\ called "file.txt" which contains the text "TEXT". I'm thinking of a command similar to this:create C:\file.txt "TEXT"Is there any functionality similar to this?...

Hi,Have you ever heard of this virus. It's effected most of the PC's and was transferd to the USB's in my workplace. It keep on creating files which you cant delete. First we figured it out as an exe file with the size of 284kb. Somehow NOD32 Antivirus software was able to detect it....

I need a solution for LAN network administration...<br/>How to create an unattended concurrent parallel account in WINDOWS XP HOME EDITION<br/>IT WIN XP PRO it is easy but not in XP HOME, is there any way to solve this problem?

Hi, I have installed WinCE 5.0 & Platform Builder on a Windows XP desktop computer, having these characteristics: - CPU: Inter(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 3.00GHz - RAM: 512 MB - Hard Disk: 20 GB These are the steps I made: - I followed the procedure mentioned in the Platform Help "How to Configure Hard Dis...

Is there any limit imposed by Windows on the number of concurrent network connections to a given TCP socket?If so, does Windows Server 2003 differ on this aspect from Windows XP (or Vista)?The problem behind this question is the design of a server application which is supposed to listen on a given T...

I open a .mdi file from the IE and it give me the option open or save with Microsoft Office Document Imaging. When I click on Open it got the error Unable to open file "C:\Document and Settings\Administrator\Local Settings\Temporary Internet Files\Content.IE5\4LI349MF\ [filename].mdi". Check file na...

My C: drive only has 900 MB free. Not sure if it is enough for me or not therefore want to increase the free space a little bit. The "Disk Cleanup" wizard was not of much help. It only freed a little bit.The XP 2005 Windows folder is installed in C:I can imagine the Windows folder taking up 1-2 GB....

I have to set the standby timeout value of the system to 10 minutes. To achieve this, I have created a custom power scheme with the required power settings and have set this power scheme as the active one using PowerCfg.exe. Powercfg.exe sets the power scheme for the current user. Please let me know...

HI All,My taskbar has a flashing message saying i have spyware of great threat. I have AVG antivirus software(free edition) but no anti-spyware. I installed the free edition of AVG anti-spyware, and while it scans for any spyware, my system switches off. I can't make it bring to my desktop, unl...

My MSI custom action DLL (C++), using Windows Vista, can not read HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE registry section. While it can read HKEY_CURRENT_USER keys fine. Note that the custom action DLL is working fine on Windows Server 2003.Another interesting fact is that the DLL can read HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE registry o...

Hi All,I have problem while querying indexing service. I can run query using regular expression like this{prop name=filename}{regex}|[0-9].doc{/regex}But it looks like it doesnt work while trying use redex on contents fo files which is exactly what I wan to do. Search for files that contains given p...

Hi allI m trying to apply IPsec features in a WindowsXP machine. This machine has established a TCP/IP communication with a Unix server. I want to use asymmetric (public key) cryptography, which in general requires a public key for the signature and the encryption and a private key for the decrypti...

Hai Friends,I have created the MSI installer setup using visual studio2005.i created with applicationfolder, Registry and user desktop folder.But i can't launch the Desktop quick icon.I created the desktop icon but can't launch the application.How to read the settings entry and write the...

Every time I right-click a file in Windows Explorer, a long list of actions comes up, with options relating to WinZip, WinRAR, MagicISO, PowerISO, CopyToDVD and so many other programs. A few (like WinZip's "Extract Here...") are actually useful but most of them I don't use at all. What ann...

Hi All,<br/> <br/>is it the Windows dll ?<br/>is anybody have any idea ?

Ok, Ive got a good one thatll bring some of you back a few years. I just copied a harddrive that contained Windows 95 B onto an 80 GB harddrive that I put in a system designed for Windows 98. What kinds of incompatibilities am I looking at?Ive noticed that it wont run 256 colors, just 16, and the it...

I've taken one step into the future but still remain with one foot in the past... :)To step up a bit safety-wise I've created one admin & one restricted account in both OS'es and use the restricted account for as much as possible. Most things work alright but there's one issue th...

If you were going to get Windows Vista Ultimate... which one would you go for? My inclination is to go for the 64bit version, but I'm not sure really.

Hey know how to do this? It's a MS DOS batch file, I'm having trouble computing "Yesterday" and xcopy /D date command - I want all files updated since yesterday.SET YESTERDAY= %DATE% -1 -- how do I compute *yesterday*?SET USERNAME=someguyxcopy %LOGFILEDIR% %SHAREDIR%\%YESTERDAY%\%USERNAME%...

Hi I want to monitor a "DIRECTORY" if any log file is writing to it: "Error : xxx" - if located, a specified Exe can be triggered to execute.Anyone suggest a tool with which this objective can be accomplished?I also tried to accomplish the same by:for /f "eol=; tokens=*" %%x in (C:\temp\*.log) do if...

I reformatted my windows 98 computer, and the sound didnt work for a long time. I figured out I had to update the sound driver, so I did, but now the sound plays really quietly. I turned the volume up to the max, and I tried it with two differnt speakers, and it still is really quiet. Is there an...

any software I can use to scan workstations in my network for unlicensed/illegal/privated software? We want to make sure all software installed are licensed and we've paid for them<br/>recommendation?

I am confused... I have Win2K computer with 512M RAM. Well - both BIOS and Windows report 512M. Now I have added another 512M of the same time. BIOS reported 1G, but Windows still reports 512M.<br/>How could that be?<br/>Mike