Is there any way to launch a program with a shortcut, that sets the process-priority of that program? iTunes is dragging my system to it's knees, but when I set the process-priority to "low", somehow, like magic, Windows gets back to it's normal responsive self :) ...
I want to query Active Directory from Windows PE 2.0, which is not supported "out of the box." Microsoft seems to suggest that this is possible, but not with any tools they provide. What do you recommend? ...
I've spent a good part of the day searching, writing and finally scrapping a script that I can use with my Inno Setup install script that will download and install the appropriate .NET 2.0 Framework if needed. There are definitely a number of examples out there, but they: Want to install Internet Explorer if needed which I wouldn't da...
Hi, I have a Rails 2.0.2 application running with a postgresql db. The machine will receive data on a TCP port. I already have coded a working ruby multithreaded tcp server to receive the requests, but I need this code to run alongside my Rails app. So I guess I need to know how to span a new process inside Rails, or how to create a wo...
Ok I followed the steps for setting up ruby and rails on my Vista machine and I am having a problem connecting to the database. Contents of database.yml development: adapter: sqlserver database: APPS_SETUP Host: WindowsVT06\SQLEXPRESS Username: se Password: paswd Run rake db:migrate from myapp directory ---------- rake abo...
The FILETIME http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms724284(VS.85).aspx structure counts from January 1 1601 (presumably the start of that day) according to the microsoft documentation, but does this include leap seconds? Note: While it's generous to use ones time to answer a strangers questions on the internet; if you don't actually...
I want my Python script to copy files on Vista. When I run it from a normal cmd.exe window, no errors are generated, yet the files are NOT copied. If I run cmd.exe "as administator" and then run my script, it works fine. This makes sense since UAC normally prevents many file system actions. Is there a way I can, from within a Python ...
Short version: I'm wondering if it's possible, and how best, to utilise CPU specific instructions within a DLL? Slightly longer version: When downloading (32bit) DLLs from, say, Microsoft it seems that one size fits all processors. Does this mean that they are strictly built for the lowest common denominator (ie. the minimum platform s...
G'day Stackoverflowers, I'm the author of Perl's autodie pragma, which changes Perl's built-ins to throw exceptions on failure. It's similar to Fatal, but with lexical scope, an extensible exception model, more intelligent return checking, and much, much nicer error messages. It will be replacing the Fatal module in future releases of...
I have been coding exclusively for a while now on Linux with C++. In my current job, it's a Windows shop with C# as main language. I've retrained myself to use Visual Studio instead of emacs ( main reason is the integrated debugger in VC, emacs mode in VC helps ), setup Cygwin ( since I cannot live without a shell ) and pickup the ropes ...
Several years back, I innocently tried to write a little app to save my tactically placed desktop icons because I was sick of dragging them back to their locations when some event reset them. I gave up after buring WAY too much time having failed to find a way to query, much less save and reset, my icons' desktop position. Anyone know ...
Application has an auxiliary thread. This thread is not meant to run all the time, but main process can call it very often. So, my question is, what is more optimal in terms of CPU performance: suspend thread when it is not being used or keep it alive and use WaitForSingleObject function in order to wait for a signal from main process? ...
Is there a keyboard shortcut for pasting the content of the clipboard into a command prompt window on Windows XP (instead of using the right mouse button)? The typical Shift+Insert does not seem to work here. ...
Is TLS 1.1 support included in Windows XP SP3? ...
We need to test a website in both IE6 and IE7. We've had bugs appear running on actual windows machines that aren't visible under vmware (?!), so we have an actual windows laptop to do this - but only one. Is it possible to install IE6 and IE7 side-by-side in such a way that they absolutely, positively, behave exactly like they would if ...
A Google search turned up software that performs the same functions as cron, but nothing built into Windows. I'm running Windows XP Professional, but advice for any version of Windows would be potentially helpful to someone. EDIT: Is there also a way to invoke this feature (which based on answers is called the Task Scheduler) programat...
I'm trying to install a service using InstallUtil.exe but invoked through Process.Start. Here's the code: ProcessStartInfo startInfo = new ProcessStartInfo (m_strInstallUtil, strExePath); System.Diagnostics.Process.Start (startInfo); where "m_strInstallUtil" is the fully qualified path and exe to InstallUtil.exe and "strExePath" is th...
How can I script a bat or cmd to stop and start a service reliably with error checking (or let me know that it wasn't successful for whatever reason)? ...
Hi All We have some very large data files (5 gig to 1TB) where we need quick read/write access. Since we have a fixed record size it seems like some form of ISAM would be the way to go. But would be happy to hear other suggestions. Ideally the solution would have an Apache or LGPL style license but we will pay if we have to. Mus...
This is a follow-up to this question. When I issue the gem update command on Windows, whenever it gets to a gem whose latest version DOESN'T have Windows binaries, it'll attempt to build the native extension which will, of course, fail. For example: Updating sqlite3-ruby Building native extensions. This could take a while... ERROR: W...