I have a PS/2 touchpad which I would like to write a driver for (I'm just a web guy so this is unfamiliar territory to me). The touchpad comes with a Windows XP driver, which apparently sends messages to enable/disable tap-to-click. I'm trying to find out what message it is sending but I'm not sure how to start. Would software like "Syse...
Hi there, I have a VS2005 deployment & setup project, that makes use of the Tablet PC SDK 1.7 Merge Module, so users of Windows XP can make use of the managed Microsoft.Ink.DLL library. Now that we've moved over to Vista/VS2008, do I still need to install the TPC SDK (to get the merge module) or can I make use of something that Vista h...
I was wondering if anyone knew of any limitations to using Windows XP as a File and SQL server. I am asking because one of the applications we sell, requires the customer to setup a server for filesharing and as a SQL Server. We already allow them to use SQL Express, but we wanted to see if we can suggest Windows XP as a low cost alterna...
Hey there, I found some informations about controlling IIS 5.1 from command line via adsutil.vbs (http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/WindowsServer2003/Library/IIS/d3df4bc9-0954-459a-b5e6-7a8bc462960c.mspx?mfr=true). The utility is available at c:\InetPub\AdminScripts. The utility throw only errors like the following: ErrNumbe...
Hi - I've having trouble directly accessing the Win32_OperatingSystem management class that is exposed via WMI. It is a singleton class, and I'm pretty certain "Win32_OperatingSystem=@" is the correct path syntax to get the instance of a singleton. The call to InvokeMethod produces the exception listed at the bottom of the question, as...
I remember watching a webcast from Mark Russinovich showing the sequence of keyboard keys for a user initiated kernel dump. Can somebody refresh my memory on the exact order of the keys. Please note this is for XP. ...
Hi, When creating a setup/MSI with Visual Studio is it possible to make a setup for a simple application that doesn't require administrator permissions to install? If its not possible under Windows XP is it possible under Vista? For example a simple image maniputlation application that allows you to paste photos on top of backgrounds....
I'm developing a website on an XP virtual machine and have an SMTP virtual server set up in IIS -- it delivers mail just fine. What I would like is to confirm that any emails the site sends are only going to a specific domain. The XP firewall seems to only involve incoming connections, I can't block outgoing TCP on port 25. And I haven'...
What's the best way to detect an application crash in XP (produces the same pair of 'error' windows each time - each with same window title) and then restart it? I'm especially interested to hear of solutions that use minimal system resources as the system in question is quite old. I had thought of using a scripting language like Auto...
I'm desperately looking for cheap ways to lower the build times on my home PC. I just read an article about disabling the Last Access Time attribute of a file on Windows XP, so that simple reads don't write anything back to disk. It's really simple too. At a DOS-prompt write: fsutil behavior set disablelastaccess 1 Has anyone ...
I need to enable/disable completely network interfaces from a script in Windows XP. I'm looking for a python solution, but any general way (eg WMI, some command-line à la netsh, some windows call) is welcome and will be adjusted. Thanks. ...
Hi, Our current application is a single OpenGL EXE containing multiple pages. The EXE is responsible for accessing data sent across the network via UDP. It accumulates the data and stores it in a host of singleton structures. The individual pages within the EXE access the singleton structures to process the data as they see fit. In ...
After compiling a simple C++ project using Visual Studio 2008 on vista, everything runs fine on the original vista machine and other vista computers. However, moving it over to an XP box results in an error message: "The application failed to start because the application configuration is incorrect". What do I have to do so my compiled ...
Environment: HP laptop with Windows XP SP2 I had created some encrypted files using GnuPG (gpg) for Windows. Yesterday, my hard disk failed so I had reimage the hard disk. I have now reinstalled gpg and regenerated my keys using the same passphrase as earlier. But, I am now unable to decrypt the files. I get the following error: ...
I have an installation program (just a regular C++ MFC program, not Windows Installer based) that needs to set some registry values based on the type of Internet connection: broadband, dialup, and/or wireless. Right now this information is being determined by asking a series of yes or no questions. The problem is that the person doing ...
I'd like to create a hotkey to search for files under a specific folder in Windows XP; I'm using AutoHotkey to create this shortcut. Problem is that I need to know a command-line statement to run in order to open the standard Windows "Find Files/Folders" dialog. I've googled for a while and haven't found any page indicating how to do th...
This is a programming question in the sense that I'm experiencing a hardware issue which is keeping me from being able to develop effectively... Anyway, my PC is running insanely slow, but it doesn't appear to be a memory consumption issue or a CPU issue - no programs are running away with too much of either. But something is thrashing ...
How do you schedule a task in Windows XP to run when you shutdown windows. Such that I want to run a simple command line program I wrote in c# everytime I shut down windows. There doesn't seem to be an option in scheduled tasks to perform this task when my computer shuts down. ...
I am trying to create a service with C# that launches a process that can be displayed on the Windows XP Logon screen. I found some code that is doing this in C++. The C++ code is for a service that creates another process with STARTUPINFO.lpDesktop set to "WinSta0\WinLogon". The created process is then displayed to the Windows Logon S...
We have a java program that requires a large amount of heap space - we start it with (among other command line arguments) the argument -Xmx1500m, which specifies a maximum heap space of 1500 MB. When starting this program on a Windows XP box that has been freshly rebooted, it will start and run without issues. But if the program has run ...