windows-7

How to make a file "searchable" in Windows 7

Thought this would be a good SO question since couldn't find anything on Google and figured someone out there might know the quick answer. I have the fantastic utility Pixie, it's basically an .exe sitting in my Program Files. It wasn't an official install, simply downloaded and placed it there. Rather than navigate to it to run, and ...

Disabled form fields style in Windows 7

Hi, I just recently upgraded to Windows 7 and I have noticed that styling for text form fields across all browsers is non-existent. With Windows XP it was very obvious which form fields were disabled, but now I can't tell. Are there any style settings I could use to fix this? Thanks! ...

[C#] Send audio output to all speaker devices

I need to be able to direct sound output from my application to all of a system's audio outputs - specifically, both the built-in speakers and headphones of a laptop. I'm using C# on Windows Vista/7 and the latest version of the .NET Framework, and don't need to support older (i.e. Windows XP) OSes. I was able to successfully use the C...

Does Visual C# 2010 Express need Windows 7 SDK?

Do I need to install the Windows 7 SDK, to create programs with Visual C#? ...

How do I add an audio track to my "Play To" list using C# in Windows 7?

I poked around for a while on Google and Windows Media player looking for a way to do this, but I can't and I think I should be able to, so I'm asking the fine people of StackOverflow. I'd like to be able to write some code to do one of the following: Add an audio file from my WMP media library to the current "Play To" playlist. Add a...

Installing Ruby on Rails on Windows 7 - quick and easy

Since I had so many issues installing RoR on my laptop with Windows 7, I thought I would share my steps with you. Many people tell you to use InstantRails. I did that one too, but the option below worked best for me. Download and install Ruby 1.8.7 http://rubyforge.org/frs/download.php/71492/rubyinstaller-1.8.7-p299.exe Download the l...

In Java How to get file full path to parameters

Hi, I started simple program in Java. I got form with textbox. I want to know how can I get file name and path by clicking on some file in windows and in the context menu when I'm selecting SendTo->Myprog, It will open my program and will put the full path name to the text box. I know how to put MyProg to the SendTo context menu. I don'...

Microsoft JScrtip runtime error using window.location in IE8

Hi, I'm having a weird error in my code. I'm getting an error: Microsoft JScript runtime error: object doesn't support this action. I'm using fullcalendar and on an event click I want to open the even details in the same window. Oddly enough, this works fine in Chrome. I also want to note that on an XP system it works fine both in IE8...

Imagemagick on Windows 7 compatibility issues

Well, it's pretty simple.. I'm trying to get Imagick (for PHP) working on Windows 7 (localhost), but I can't seem to get it right. I used this 'tutorial': http://support.joomlatools.eu/faq/8-installation/144-installing-imagick-on-windows.html But, when finished, it doesn't display Imagick in phpinfo(). Before that, when I try to 'open' ...

about function in c language

i want know that how to write program using function ...

Controlling a service through a separate application

I'm writing a windows service to do some daily processing, and I want to have a user-friendly way to interact with it. I'll just be doing basic things like checking its status and viewing logs, though I may decide I want to throw in a function call or two as well. After doing some research, it sounds like I need a separate application to...

JNI, dll and windows 7 x64

Hi, i write some dll in windows xp sp3 x86 using Visual Studio 2008. Dll is calling in java throught jni. In windows xp x86 sp3 everything is working fine. I try to use this dll in windows 7 x64 and my virtual machine is crashed. I try few combination: 1) jdk1.7 x64, Eclipse x64, dll x64 2) jdk1.7_12 x86, Eclipse x86, dll x86 and ev...

How write a Parental Control Provider for user account protection and monitoring for Windows Vista/7?

The blog entry (Safeguarding Windows 7 – Parental Controls) talks about assigning providers to user accounts for protecting and monitoring user accounts. Can someone please point me to an MSDN article on how to write such a provider? (I Googled and I guess I wasn't entering the correct search terms because I couldn find much.) Hopeful...

How to terminate a program when it crashes? (which should just fail a unit test instead of getting stuck forever)

Our unit tests fire off child processes, and sometimes these child processes crash. When this happens, a Windows Error Reporting dialog pops up, and the process stays alive until this is manually dismissed. This of course prevents the unit tests from ever terminating. How can this be avoided? Here's an example dialog in Win7 with the...

Get effective executable filename

A .NET application (managed) runs on Windows 7 64 bit. It is actually running on a 64 bit environment. The application inspect running process (for example, calc.exe) which is located in c:\windows\syswow64\calc.exe. So, why the function Process.MainModule.Filename returns c:\windows\system32\calc.exe? Is it possible to get the effe...

Cannot configure WSS 3.0 on Windows 7 x64

On my windows 7 ultimate x64 (no active directory installed) i've 1. installed successfully sharepoint foundation server 2010 (wss4.0) - the basic install. 2. Using Bamboo Solutions i've installed wss3.0 with sp2 successfully but i cannot configure it using basic or advanced installation methods. I was able to install Sharepoint ex...

ReleaseIntArrayElements, windows 7

Hi, I wrote simple java program which is calling jni function written in c. Java through native function pass int array, native function made some changes and then call release jni function. In windows xp everything is working fine, but in windows 7 x64 java vm crash on ReleaseIntArrayElements. carr = (*env)->GetIntArrayElements(env, a...

Killing processes on Windows 7

I'm debugging plugins on Windows 7 and of course the plugin host (Cubase5.exe) occasionally crashes because of errors in the plugin. On XP or Vista, I could always restart it immediately and continue working. But on Windows 7, even though Cubase appears to close, it is still visible in Task Manager and I cannot kill it by any means. Afte...

Registration-Free COM Objects on Windows-7/64bit

I'm trying to get the Registration-Free Activation of COM Components: A Walkthrough sample from Microsoft to run on a windows 7 Professional / 64bit machine. I've downloaded the demo program MSDNRegFreeCOM.msi. I have it building and running correctly on my XP-32 dev box using VS2008SP1. But when I copy working 32bit demo program to m...

How to configure .NET framework on Windows 7

Hi ! I don't find the graphic tool to configure my .NET framework on my windows 7. Thanks Robie ...