Can IIS7 be installed on XP?
I'm pretty sure I know the answer to this, but short of a virtual Vista installation, is there a way to install IIS 7 on XP? ...
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How can I make a Enso style application in C#
The background should be transparent, but the text should not. ...
How do you deal with lots of small files?
A product that I am working on collects several thousand readings a day and stores them as 64k binary files on a NTFS partition (Windows XP). After a year in production there is over 300000 files in a single directory and the number keeps growing. This has made accessing the parent/ancestor directories from windows explorer very time c...
Location of My Pictures
How do I programatically (Using C#) find out what the path is of my My Pictures folder? Does this work on XP and Vista? ...
Windows console command to open multiple pages in Internet Explorer 7
How do I open multiple pages in Internet Explorer 7 with a single DOS command? Is a batch file the only way to do this? Thanks! ...
Learning FreeBSD
What is the average time that it would take a complete novice, whose background is mostly Windows XP, to go through the FreeBSD handbook and get sufficient mastery to setup a server from the ground up? ...
best way of detecting if Windows has Windows Updates ready to download/install?
I'm specifically interested in Windows 2000/XP, but Vista would be interesting too (if different). I was thinking along the lines of task scheduling a batch file or equivalent on a daily basis. EDIT: Sorry, I should have provided more info. The question pertains to 10 machines which I manually apply updates. I don't want to install the...
Install PHP on XP / IIS 5.1?
I am trying to install PHP onto my development box (XP SP3 / IIS 5.1) I've got PHP 5.2.6 stable downloaded (the MSI installer package) and I am getting an error "Cannot find httpd.conf". After that the install seems to breeze by quickly (more quickly than I would have expected) and when I try to execute a simple PHP script from my loca...
Accessing the windows admin shares when not connected to a network
I'm finding that I can't access the admin shares on an XP64 box when there's no network connection. Trying to browse to \localhost\c$ fails (although obviously browsing c: works). Reason for the question is that the nant build script for our application uses this format to copy files from one local directory to another, and it's failing...
Use clipboard from VBScript
I am looking for a method to place some text onto the clipboard with VBScript. The VBScript in question will be deployed as part of our login script. I would like to avoid using anything that isn't available on a clean Windows XP system. Edit: In answer to the questions about what this is for. We wanted to encourage users inside our ...
IPSec AES 256 encryption in Windows XP with Service Pack 3?
Does IPsec in Windows XP Sp3 support AES-256 encryption? Update: Windows IPsec FAQ says that it's not supported in Windows XP, but maybe they changed it in Service Pack 3? http://www.microsoft.com/technet/network/ipsec/ipsecfaq.mspx Question: Is Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) encryption supported? origamigumby, please specify ...
Change order of images in icon file
Is there an app that can change the order of images inside an icon? Thanks! ...
Is there one API to handle the Task Scheduler in XP and Vista?
I have a couple applications that I would like to be able to add scheduled tasks from within them. I've been Googling for how to add tasks in both XP and Vista. Apparently, Vista has a new Task Scheduler that is very different from the one in XP. Does anybody know if there is a single API to tackle both of them, or do I have to code for...
Bluetooth APIs in Windows/.Net?
I am in the process of writing a Bluetooth scanner that locates and identifies mobile devices in the local vicinity. Is this something that I can accomplish using C#, or do I need to drop down into the C/C++ APIs? My application is targeting Windows XP and Vista. Pointers are appreciated. Thanks! ...
FAT-16 On Modern OS
I've got a project that was written in BASIC. I'm not sure of the exact reason, but the app will not function except when being run from a FAT-16 file system. I'd rather try to set up and environment that will support this app in a modern OS (Vista/XP) instead of rewriting it. Does anyone know how to get an app like this running in...
Best place to save user information xp and vista
I need to save a users login information in encrypted form for this application im building but im not sure of the best place to save the file. I dont want to save it into the program apps folder as i want it per user. So what is the best folder (or way) to save it into? Edit: Using c++ ...
Proxy for command line utilities in Win XP
How do I get command line utilities like ping to use the default proxy in Windows XP. proxycfg -u sets the proxy to the default (IE) proxy alright, but it doesn't seem to be working. Update: I am behind a proxy and would like a way to check if a site is up or not hence trying to use ping! Also would like a way to telnet (without using ...
Is there any way to check which kind of RAM my computer uses without opening it up?
I would like to check which type of RAM my computer uses before I order an upgrade. I'm fairly sure its DDR2 but I would like to double check this. Is there any way to check this in Windows XP without opening the case up and looking? EDIT * The content police seem to have gotten the wrong end of the stick, I was looking for a piece ...
How do I disable Tortoise BZR?
I'm a huge fan of bzr and I'm glad they're working on tortoise for it, but currently it's WAY too slow to be useful. The icons are almost always incorrect and when I load a directory in explorer with a lot of branches it locks up my entire system for anywhere from 10 seconds to 2 minutes. I look forward to trying it again in the future...
Will MS drop support for XP in .Net 4.* or 5.*?
Does it matter to developers that the current, and newer versions of .Net don't support windows 2000? It scares me to think that several of my clients still use Windows 2000 and although I may decide to stop supporting Windows 2000 one day, I don't like that Microsoft is pushing it on people's products. Could anyone see Microsoft doin...