(I have this weird configuration problem at work, so I thought I'd give this site a try. My Google-Fu is failing me...) The situation: I need to convert our current development environment from XP 32bit to Vista 64bit (*). Naturally, I've run into plenty of places in our build system where hardcoded paths were problematic (e.g. "C:\Prog...
I've noticed that if the path parameter to the CreateFile function targets \Windows\System32\ the call is failing with the following error code ERROR_PATH_NOT_FOUND. The file path is correct, I'm the owner of the folder, so the question is why is the call failing? Did MS add special policy forbidding the folder from being accessed? Sam...
Is there a standard convention for the types of files that go in \Windows\ versus those that go in \Windows\System32 ?? I'm working on an SDK that has a variety of DLLs a helper exe, and a Windows service exe. The previous guy who worked on the code put the two exe files in \Windows\ and the DLLs in \Windows\System32\ But it seems t...
PC is shutting down during Lightmass/AO rendering only, CPUs never ovr 70c, Video Cards 65c..no overheating.... runs ANY game in 200+FPS : Unable to load image \SystemRoot\system32\ntoskrnl.exe, Win32 error 0n2*** ERROR: Module load completed but symbols could not be loaded for ntoskrnl.exe and the debugger gives me.Probably caused by : ...