In Windows 7, the default option in the taskbar properties for "taskbar buttons" is "always combine, hide labels". Is there a way to detect whether this option is actually selected on the user's system? Essentially I want to know whether my app's taskbar button has a label or not. I use Delphi but I should be able to translate any Win...
Hi I have inherited a VB6 application from a friend of a family member, who wants to have some enhancements done to it. I haven’t developed in VB for more than 3 years (I’m currently developing in MS Dynamics Ax). I’ve recently upgraded my hardware and am now running Win7. The last time I worked with the app (about a year and a half ag...
Hi, this is pretty strange. I've got this string that connect to a SQLServer in the same domain as the computers are running and compares username with employeeID. Then takes that row and dumps it into the lokal computers registry. This is working in Windows XP, but not Windows 7 it seems. I get this exact error message: Line:39 Char:...
Can I install and run SharePoint Server 2007 or 2010 on Windows 7 Professional? ...
I have a set of NetTCP services configured that run under a Windows service for production but I use a console app to spin them up for debugging purposes. With Windows Vista I disabled UAC outright because it was annoying, however I'm trying to leave it enabled with 7 because it does everything I want while being very quiet and not naggy...
I'm using a dynamically created Access database as a temporary storage for a file being inputed. I know that everything works, as on my dev machine I can get this code to run. But on another system (Win 7) it's not working. I'm being stopped at this line... DAOEngine = New DAO.DBEngine When it gets here, it just throws an error... ...
In Windows 7: Start notepad. Type some text. Save file => for file name, specify the text => Hello? Press enter or click Save. Nothing happens. No error dialog. Simply, the "Save dialog" stays open. What gives? ...
I am using windows 7, in commond prompt "arp -a" Besides my wifi ip address, i will always see. Is my computer hacked? 149.171.11.255 ff-ff-ff-ff-ff-ff static 224.0.0.22 01-00-5e-00-00-16 static 224.0.0.252 01-00-5e-00-00-fc static 239.255.255.250 01-00-5e-7f-ff-fa static 255.255.255.25...
Hey, I'm working on windows 7 and my tilde key only works after pressing it for about 2 seconds. What can I do about it? Thanks! ...
OS: Win7 list box is not updating its region after SendMessage(hwndListData, LB_ADDSTRING, 0, (LPARAM) szListMainBuffer); If mouse cursor is hovered over blank line that should contain text from szListMainBuffer, and clicked, text appears. I have tried using UpdateWindow(), InvalidateRect() functions targeted at hwndListData and pare...
I have problem with blocking sites by hosts.ini . For example I have defined: www.todoist.com www.guardian.co.uk and when I enter in webrowser (FF, Chrome, IE) www.guardian.co.uk it's redirecting me to www.todoist.com But when I give address www.guardian.co.uk/sport it's redirecting me to www.todoist.com/sport . Do You know how to m...
I am writting a client-server laucher application. An administrator will, from the server side, select executable files ('.exes') from a list and add these to a short-list of the apps that standard users can run on the client. To complile this list, my client app will reculsively search though all the folders in the system for exes and ...
python 3: from ctypes import windll windowName = 'Adobe Flash Player 10' width = 2560 height = 1024 menuHeight = 20 GWL_STYLE = -16 WS_CAPTION = 0x00C00000 WS_THICKFRAME = 0x00040000 HWND_TOP = 0 SWP_FRAMECHANGED = 0x0020 hwnd = windll.user32.FindWindowW(None, windowName) ws = windll.user32.GetWindowLongW(hwnd, GWL_STYLE) & ~(WS_CAPT...
Before upgrading to Windows 7, I was using Vista and I had a folder D:\Temp. After upgrading, I cannot see the folder any more. Even when I show all the hidden folders/files. But I know it is there, 'cause I can see all files under this directory if I type D:\Temp in the Explorer address bar and press Enter. Any body knows why? Thanks. ...
This is driving me crazy, and has been bugging me for weeks, I'm trying to sort it all out today but am having real difficulty, if anyone could help it would be a HUGE benefit to me! I'm trying to get a website I've developed on one computer, to work on my home computer. The old computer was running ASP.net 3.5. On my new computer, af...
How can I change the "OK" text into "Great!" on all buttons in Windows 7's dialog windows? ...
Hi guys, I am getting very annoying message called "system.outofmemory.exception" while I do have a lot of unused memory in my laptop. Unless I closed and re-opened the solution, it won't letting me to continue my work. Is there any configuration or service pack that can fix the issue ? Thanks ...
I tried to do: mysqladmin -u root password <password> But I got the following error: mysqladmin: connect to server at 'localhost' failed. error: 'Access denied for user 'root'@'localhost' (using password: NO)' What could be causing this? This is a new install of MySQL and I have never configured MySQLadmin, or as far as I know I h...
Hi, i have a file type for my application for which i want to show some custom information in Organize\Deatails Pane in windows explorer. Like for a word file it shows author and stuff similarly i have some custom information for my file which i want to show. Anybody with idea on how can i do it? ...
I use system "java -cp xxx.jar" in my ruby script and it runs well on Mac OS. But when I run the script on Windows 7 x64, those java -cp xxx.jar did not get executed and no error was reported. ...