Occasionally a program on a Windows machine goes crazy and just hangs. So I'll call up the task manager and hit the "End Process" button for it. However, this doesn't always work; if I try it enough times then it'll usually die eventually, but I'd really like to be able to just kill it immediately. On Linux I could just kill -9 to gua...
I know this isn't strictly speaking a programming question but something I always hear from pseudo-techies is that having a lot of entries in your registry slows down your Windows-based PC. I think this notion comes from people who are trying to troubleshoot their PC and why it's running so slow and they open up the registry at some poin...
I'm looking at developing a device which will need to support Ethernet over USB (hosted in Linux, XP, and Vista). As I understand it, Vista and Linux support the industry standard USB CDC. However, in classic Windows style, XP only supports it's own Remote NDIS. So, now I'm thinking of just bowing down and doing it over RNDIS, as opposed...
Hi, I need to programmatically determine out how many sectors, heads, and cylinders are on a physical disk from Windows XP. Does anyone know the API for determining this? Where might Windows expose this information? Thanks, Terry ...
Hello, I want to run a scheduled windows task that deletes that deletes all files from a directory that are older than 2 weeks. The reason is that these are IIS and Tomcat logs that fill up my server, but I want to keep the most recent logs in case I need to investigate a problem. Does any one know an easy way to do this? Cheers Nig...
I wrote a Haskell program that runs backup processes periodically on a Windows machine use rsync. But everytime I run the rsync command, a command window opens up to the top of all the windows. I would like to get rid of this window. What is the simplest way to do this? ...
I am looking for a way to delete all files older than 7 days in an MS-DOS batch file. I've search around the web, and found some examples with hundreds of lines of code, and others that required installing extra command line utilities to accomplish the task. Similar things can be done in BASH in just a couple lines of code. It seems ...
I'm creating a ToolTip window and adding tools to it using the flags TTF_IDISHWND | TTF_SUBCLASS. (c++, win32) I have a manifest file such that my program uses the new WindowsXP themes (comctrl32 version 6). When I hover over a registered tool, the tip appears. Good. When I click the mouse, the tip disappears. Ok. However, moving away ...
When an application is behind another applications and I click on my application's taskbar icon, I expect the entire application to come to the top of the z-order, even if an app-modal, WS_POPUP dialog box is open. However, some of the time, for some of my (and others') dialog boxes, only the dialog box comes to the front; the rest of t...
For a project I'm working on. I need to look for an executable on the filesystem. For UNIX derivatives, I assume the user has the file in the mighty $PATH variable, but there is no such thing on Windows. I can safely assume the file is at most 2 levels deep into the filesystem, but I don't know on what drive it will be. I have to try al...
I'm looking for a Windows port of the UNIX touch command. I don't want to install an entire MKS toolkit just for the one tool. Is there a native port available somewhere or a command in Windows that does the same thing and supports features like all files in a directory by wildcard? Specifically I'm after changing mtime, ctime and atime...
I need a way to determine the space remaining on a disk volume using python on linux, Windows and OS X. I'm currently parsing the output of the various system calls (df, dir) to accomplish this - is there a better way? ...
I have a Samurize config that shows a CPU usage graph similar to Task manager. How do I also display the name of the process with the current highest CPU usage percentage? I would like this to be updated, at most, once per second. Samurize can call a command line tool and display it's output on screen, so this could also be an opt...
I'm building a C++/MFC program in a multilingual environment. I have one main (national) language and three international languages. Every time I add a feature to the program I have to keep the international languages up-to-date with the national one. The resource editor in Visual Studio is not very helpful because I frequently end up le...
I'm at a loss for where to get the best information about the meaning, likely causes, and possible solutions to resolve COM errors when all you have is the HRESULT. Searching Google for terms like '80004027' is just about useless as it sends you to random discussion groups where 90% of the time, the question 'What does 80004027 mean?' i...
Hi, If I write a file to disk on Windows XP, how can I get the physical sector (or sectors) that are used to store the file on disk? Thanks, Terry ...
Hi, When I defragment my XP machine I notice that there is a block of "Unmovable Files". Is there a file attribute I can use to make my own files unmovable? Just to clarify, I want a way to programmatically tell Windows that a file that I create should be unmovable. Is this possible, and if so, how can I do it? Thanks, Terry ...
I'm a keyboard junkie. I love having a key sequence to do everything. What are your favorite keyboard shortcuts? I'll start by naming a couple of mine: 1 - Alt-Space to access the windows menu for the current window 2 - F2 to rename a file in Windows Explorer ...
I have a piece of server-ish software written in Java to run on Windows and OS X. (It is not running on a server, but just a normal user's PC - something like a torrent client.) I would like the software to signal to the OS to keep the machine awake (prevent it from going into sleep mode) while it is active. Of course I don't expect the...
I'm not too sure what is going on here, but sometimes a particular file in my repository will change the case of it's name. e.g.,: before: File.h after: file.h I don't really care why this is happening, but this causes git to think it is a new file, and then I have to go and change the file name back. Can you just make git ignore case...