windows-nt

Build for Windows NT 4.0 using Visual Studio 2005?

My research to date indicates that it is impossible to build an application for execution on Windows NT 4.0 using Visual Studio (C++, in this case) 2005. Is this really true? Is there any workaround available? ...

In C++/Windows how do I get the network name of the computer I'm on?

In a C++ Windows (XP and NT, if it makes a difference) application I'm working on, I need to get the network name associated with the computer the code is executing on, so that I can convert local filenames from C:\filename.ext to \\network_name\C$\filename.ext. How would I do this? Alternatively, if there's a function that will just do...

CreateProcessAsUser vs ShellExecute

I need to ShellExecute something as another user, currently I start a helper process with CreateProcessAsUser that calls ShellExecute, but that seems like too much of a hack (Wrong parent process etc.) Is there a better way to do this? @PabloG: ImpersonateLoggedOnUser does not work: HANDLE hTok; VERIFY(LogonUser("otheruser",0,"passwor...

Remote debugging an NT application from XP with Visual Studio 6.0

Is it possible to remote-debug a Visual C++ 6.0 application running on a Windows NT machine from a developer workstation running Windows XP? If so, is there a procedure written up somewhere? ...

Running a J6SE app on an NT box

Hello world, I need to run a Java application, which we are trying to port to Java 6, on an NT box. I manage to run java 5 on it (although not officially supported), but when I try to run java 6 I get the following error: `Exception in thread "main" java.lang.UnsatisfiedLinkError: C:\Program Files\Java\jre1.6.0_05\bin\awt.dll: The spec...

Can you run Target Designer for NT 4.0 on an XP box?

I'm trying to run Microsoft Windows NT Embedded 4.0 Target Designer on a Windows XP system, but when I try to build, I get errors. Have you ever done this, and if so, is there a trick to getting it to work? The best clue I've found so far from Microsoft is that the Development System Hardware Requirements document includes "Windows NT 4...

Windows 2000, IE6, applet attaches to wrong frame.

I have an applet which communicates with the browser via javascript. I load the applet, and some javascript, in an iframe, and in Windows 2000 with IE6, I have determined that the messages the applet propagates hit the parent frame, rather than the iframe. Is there a better solution to fix this than include windows2k.hacks.js, with prox...

Install error on installing Developer 2k 1.2.1on Virtualized Windows NT

I am trying to install Developer 2k 1.3.2 on a virtualized windows nt system. I am facing the following access exception. An application error has occurred log has been generated ORAINST.exe Exception: Access violation (0xc0000005) , address:0x00ea78ea Can anyone help me understand what might be going wrong ? ...

Windows NT vs Win Server 2003/2008 for web hosting

Hi guys, my web hoster uses windows nt as server + IIS 6 I'm hosting an asp.net 3.5 web site and it... works great ! So my question is : why buying a win server 2003/2008 hosting instead an "old" NT if NT works great ? ...