(This is a followup to my previous question about measuring .NET remoting traffic.) When I am testing our Windows service / service controller GUI combination, it is often most convenient to run both pieces on my development box. With this setup, the remoting traffic between the two is via loopback, not through the Ethernet card. Are t...
What's the best way to copy a file from a network share to the local file system using a Windows batch file? Normally, I would use "net use *" but using this approach how can I get the drive letter? ...
Is there a tool that allows one to monitor GDI calls? ...
Has anyone had and solved a problem where programs would terminate without any indication of why? I encounter this problem about every 6 months and I can get it to stop by having me (the administrator) log-in then out of the machine. After this things are back to normal for the next 6 months. I've seen this on Windows XP and Windows 2...
I would like to write my own file manager i.e. something like what XYplorer or Free Commander does but with a feature set that's more helpful to programmers. What's the best language to write this. I'm basically looking for a language that has both rich GUI libraries and a nice wrapper library over the Windows Shell API. I tried with C...
I'm writing (in C# with .NET 3.5) an administrative application which will poll multiple Windows systems for various bits of data. In many cases it will use WMI, but in some cases it may need to read remote registry or remotely execute some command or script on the polled system. This polling will happen at repeating intervals - usually ...
I just noticed that Chromium was installed in AppData in both Vista and XP. If Google does that and if other applications does this, than is that becuase there is some form of protection? Should we write installers that does the same thing as Google? ...
I've heard that creating a new process on a Windows box is more expensive than on Linux. Is this true? Can somebody explain the technical reasons for why it's more expensive and provide any historical reasons for the design decisions behind those reasons? ...
I'm trying to refer to a drive whose letter may change. I'd like to refer to it by its label (e.g., MyLabel (v:) within a Batch File. It can be referred to by V:\ . I'd like to refer to it by MyLabel. (This was posted on Experts Echange for a month with no answer. Let's see how fast SO answers it ) ...
On linux, it's possible to create a tun interface using a tun driver which provides a "network interface psuedo-device" that can be treated as a regular network interface. Is there a way to do this programmatically on windows? Is there a way to do this without writing my own driver? ...
I have windows 2003 terminal servers, multi-core. I'm looking for a way to monitor individual CPU core usage on these servers. It is possible for an end-user to have a run-away process (e.g. Internet Explorer or Outlook). The core for that process may spike to near 100% leaving the other cores 'normal'. Thus, the overall CPU usage o...
There is a "netsh" and a "route" command on Windows. From their help text it looks like both can be used to configure static routes. When should you use one and not the other? Is IPv6 a distinguishing factor here? ...
How can you find out which process is listening on a port on Windows? ...
I wrote a simple Windows Forms program in C#. I want to be able to input a windows user name and password and when I click a login button to run code run as the user I've entered as input. ...
Anybody know of a way to copy a file from path A to path B and suppressing the Windows file system cache? Typical use is copying a large file from a USB drive, or server to your local machine. Windows seems to swap everything out if the file is really big, e.g. 2GiB. Prefer example in C#, but I'm guessing this would be a Win32 call of so...
Im building an app in c# using WPF and i need it to bind to some keys. Ive found some links but not work well with my setup. Anyone done this before? also if i could bind to the windows key would be great. ...
I've used several modules to make EXEs for Python. Which options/library is best? It has been some time since I've done this and I'm curious if there are any new options, etc. ...
I've inherited a hoary old piece of code (by hoary, I mean warty with lots of undocumented bug fixes than WTF-y) and there's one part that's giving me a bit of trouble. Here's how it connects to the remote registry to get the add/remove programs key: try { remoteKey = RegistryKey.OpenRemoteBaseKey( ...
Hi everyone, I'm trying to find a source control for my own personal use that's as simple as possible. The main feature I need is being able to read/pull a past version of my code. I am the only developer. I've looked at a lot of different version control systems, but they all seem way more complicated than I need. I need one that's ...
I work on an application that uses DCOM to communicate between what are essentially several peers; in the course of normal use, instances on separate machines serve a variety of objects to one another. Historically, for this to work we have used some magic incantations, chief among which is that on every machine the user must log into a...