Can you recommend a reference for the windows command line? I would like an exhaustive reference. Perhaps something along the lines of Unix in a Nutshell? I see that there is a Windows XP in a Nutshell - is that the same sort of thing? ...
How do I replace the standard system tray clock in the taskbar? Thanks! ...
I have a Dynamic Data website built in Visual Studio 2008 using .NET 3.5 SP1. The site works OK on my Vista machine, but I get the following error when running it on a Windows XP machine: Server Error in '/FlixManagerWeb' Application. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The resource c...
In Windows XP what is the best way to execute a particular application when a particular type of USB device is attached (it currently attaches as a storage device - i.e. it appears as a drive). The solution I am looking for must execute the application from the very first time the device is attached or offer the application as a selecti...
Please can someone advice what is the best place (path) to put some application data which should be accessible and editable by all users. This is considering both Windows XP and Windows Vista and i expect that change in any file of above path does NOT trigger UAC! ...
I want to write a script which cleans the 'run' dialogue automatically every log off. Where is the history stored? ...
I have built a .dll under WinXP that claims it can't find DWMAPI.DLL when it's loaded. The problem is that this DLL is a Vista DLL, and this a known issue for XP users that have IE7 installed. The recommendation is to uninstall IE7 or repair the .NET Framework via Add/Remove programs. I did the repair, and nothing changed. I'm not about ...
When the policy for a disk in Windows XP and Vista is set to enable write caching on the hard disk, is there a way to flush a file that has just been written, and ensure that it has been committed to disk? I want to do this programmatically in C++. Closing the file does perform a flush at the application level, but not at the operating...
I'm currently developing for a handheld device running Windows XP Professional (not Tablet PC edition). The device allows users to switch from the standard widescreen landscape display format to a portrait one. I would like to know if there are any VB.NET code snippets to help me along with this task. ...
Hi, I have followed all the instructions here: http://www.tonyspencer.com/2003/10/22/curl-with-php-and-apache-on-windows/ to install & config apache get the PHP5 packages and get the CURL packages. I run the apache and run a PHP script. no problem. but when I run the php script with curl, it fails. It returns: Call to undefined fun...
I want to delete a folder that contains thousands of files and folders. If I use Windows Explorer to delete the folder it can take 10-15 minutes (not always, but often). Is there a faster way in Windows to delete folders? Other details: I don't care about the recycle bin. It's an NTFS drive. ...
Is it possible to update IIS on Windows XP from 5.1 to 6? If so how? Thanks. ...
Is there a way to assign a process to a core (or more than one core) on a multi-core system running Windows XP? An answer using a GUI is acceptable. ...
Is it possible to programatically, or otherwise, increase the width of the Windows console window? Or do I need to create a wrapper program that looks and acts like the console somehow? Are there any programs around that do this already? I use cygwin extensively in my development, and it seems a little rediculous to me that all console w...
Quite a few comments to answers in a different post gave me the impression that a lot of things regarding standard folders (%APPDATA%; %TEMP%) in Vista are different from XP, which should of course be taken into account when developping software that will have to run under Vista at some point. But in my company, I do not see that happe...
Looking for a better Windows XP command-line interface. The Visual Studio Command Prompt isn't near as nice as the Linux/OSX terminals. Thoughts? edit: Answers: Console on Sourceforge, and the Windows Powershell. Thanks, I'll go dig them up and evaluate them. The Cygwin package is too much overhead for what I want. edit2: Looks like...
During the installation of Apache2 I got the following message into cmd window: Installing the Apache2.2 service The Apache2.2 service is successfully installed. Testing httpd.conf.... Errors reported here must be corrected before the service can be started. httpd.exe: Could not reliably determine the server's fully qu...
I have heard that WPF primitives will not be supported by remote desktop on windows XP. The implication of this is that if you run a WPF application on a vista machine and display it on an XP machine (via remote desktop) the display will be sent as a compressed bitmap. This issue is resolved in Vista-Vista comunication via DirectX 11 (...
I’m using the gcc in MinGW that comes with Strawberry Perl, on Windows XP. I’d like to have ddd (the Data Display Debugger) as well but apparently on Windows the simplest way to get ddd is by running Cygwin. So what's the bare minimum of Cygwin I can install to get ddd up and running? I'd prefer if I could run ddd natively on Win32 but t...
In WinXP (SP2) you can store mapped network passwords... Start->Control Panel->User Accounts->Pick one then choose "Manage my network passwords" from Related Tasks. I normally have about 25-30 servers mapped this way to a few different accounts/domains. The problem is that at some point during our policy updates they get wiped out and...