windows-xp

Reference library problem in Release configuration on another computer

I get this error when I open a program I created in Windows Vista in C# with WPF on a computer with Windows XP: Could not load file or assembly 'Microsoft.Office.Interop.Word, Version=12.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=71e9bce111e9429c' or one of its dependencies. The system cannot find the file specified. This is ...

Find absolute path to a directory if given path to start search from (in a batch file)

A user will give me an absolute path - say "C:\src" (passed into %1 in the batch file). Then, I need to find the directory entitled "SQLScripts" that is in some subfolder of "C:\src". How can I find the absolute path to the "SQLScripts" directory? Also, I'm not worrying about multiple instances of the SQLScripts directory existing. Fro...

php start_session() isnt working for localhost

I just started making this .php file and i cant seem to figure out why its throwing this warning Warning: session_start() [function.session-start]: Cannot send session cookie - headers already sent by (output started at C:\Program Files\xampplite\htdocs\projectchest\controlpanel\index.php:1) in C:\Program Files\xampplite\htdocs\projectc...

Weird corruption problem with http uploads

My brother has a computer running Windows XP with SP2 installed. His computer was behaving badly (very old installation of Win) and one of the problems was that he could not upload jpegs to Facebook, for example. The upload would complete, but the images are garbled. Finally I decided it was time to format his computer and reinstall w...

Visual Studio & GDI++

Hi. I tried to find a similar question here, but found something different. I prefer to use display fonts smoothing in Windows, but I don't like the way how Windows XP smoothes the display font edges. Currently I use GDI++ that smoothes the display fonts making them look very similar to text rendered in Safari browser for Windows (as fa...

Exceptionally slow javascript performance on one laptop out of a few dozen

I'm working on a web application using a pretty heavy amount of javascript. On the majority of computers (all running IE6...unfortunately), the average document.ready time is about 2 seconds. While this isn't great, it's at least useable. The problem is one computer has ridiculously slow javascript document.ready times. Something that w...

blocking website via hosts file not working?

Hi, I'm trying to block a website using the hosts file using this tutorial : http://hackspc.com/how-to-block-a-website/ but It doesn't work, the website I'v blocked In this case facebook still shows up, please can anyone help me out here? Thanks, parastar ...

ImpersonateLoggedOnUser causes lengthy delays

I need to permanently change the identity of the user while an application is running. The application connects to multiple external devices. The connection to these external devices cannot be interrupted during a shift change (i.e., the current user is replaced by another user). Also, the content displayed on the secondary video canno...

Debugging with VS2008 will not work after changing Hostname

I am currently using Visual Studio 2008 on XP Pro SP3. Developing against http://localhost/ everything including debugging works fine. I need a second website on my machine. IIS 5.1 only allows one website at a time so I used the JetStat XP Pro IIS Admin tool to create a second website. This runs by stopping the Default website and st...

Eclipse randomly exits after installation of Blackberry plugin/SDK

Hello all Since adding the Blackberry Java classes from their website into eclipse, I've had it where eclipse will randomly close, with no discernible pattern, rhyme, error or reason. Here is the environment/software packages that I am using: Windows XP SP2 Eclipse v3.5.1 Blackberry Java Plugin v1.1.1.200911111641-15 Blackberry Java SD...

Disable annoying flashing in IE 6 / 7

Hello, I am currently working on a project for embedded WinXp. The application refresh a HTML Site every 5 Seconds. The problem is that I am using IE 6 / 7 by spec. But the browser have this annoying blinking and the customer dont like it. Chrome, Firefox and so on just refresh the page like a charm but IE dont. Is there a way to disab...

VBS Startup script displaying messages

How do i put messages from a VBS startup script in to box that says "Applying Computer Settings" and "Preparing Network Connections" (on XP)? ...

Threads on WindowsXP

If there are child threads of a parent thread running on the windows xp OS, does terminating a parent thread terminate its child thread as well? ...

How do I get FubuMVC to work on WinXP with IIS 5.1?

How do I get FubuMVC to work on WinXP with IIS 5.1? ...

WMI Access Denied on XP

Our application uses bunch of WMI calls. When using guest account connecting to local WMI server fails with ACCESS_DENIED, this works fine with user account and above. How to access WMI server under guest account? I added guest account to allow full access using WMIMGMT.MSC but still I am getting access denied errors. Any suggetions? ...

Changing Group Policy Setting in Windows XP

My laptops security log is getting full of access events where NETWORK SERVICE is listening for incoming traffic. The audit policy for 'Audit object access' is set for failure and I want to disable it. It fails because the windows firewall is preventing connection. When I go to the GPO editor the checkboxes for changing the settings ar...

Search for unicode text inside Windows XP

Is there a way of searching for unicode characters inside a text file under Windows XP? For example suppose I wish to find text documents with the euro symbol. Although the standard XP search allows me to search for the euro symbol it does not produce any matches when I know they should be at least a few. Wingrep has the same issue. I...

Trying to open a serial port with pyserial on WinXP -> "Access denied"

I'm trying to send data to an hplc pump via the serial port using python and pyserial. I tested the cable and the pump under linux (a gentoo derivative), where it worked perfectly, albeit as root. Now i have to use the code on a WinXP machine, where i always get an "Access denied" error when trying to open the port (i adjusted the parame...

Where the MSI file is copied after the installation?

I have to replace it because of a bug that blocks the software uninstallation, but Windows can't find the MSI file if I use the file search utility, but I think the MSI is stored somewhere where the Add or Remove Programs utility can use it. ...

How to insert my application to Windows right click menu ?

Hi, I would like to write a C# .NET program that will do some transformations to selected images. After I select several images on my desktop (or any other windows folder) and right click them, I would like to see my program in the appeared menu. How can I insert my program to this menu, and execute it when this option is clicked ? I wo...