windows-7

RMI calls not working when firewall present on the WindowsXP client, but fine on Windows 7 client

Hi, I am using the basic RMI-based client/server app shown in Java Tutorials. I am running the server and client on different machines. I also export the remote objects for both the server and client, and make them available to each other. However, there is a firewall turned on the client side and so the RMI calls fail (from client t...

Curly Braces annoyance in Windows 7 on MacBook

Hey guys! I'm just starting out writing C# in MS Visual Studio on a Win 7 partition on my MacBook Pro. Thing is, as a Java programmer I'm used to pressing Alt + Shift + 8/9 (in OSX) to make curly braces. In Win 7 I need to press Alt + 7/0. (Swedish keyboard layout) Needless to say, if I'm gonna write in both OS's it's gonna get really a...

SetLayeredWindowAttributes not working on Windows 7

I am using SetLayeredWindowAttributer to make a particular color of layered window transparent. This works fine on Windows XP,VISTA . But when I use the same on Windows 7 its not working. SetLayeredWindowAttributes(hWnd, RGB(0xff,0xff,0xff), 0, LWA_COLORKEY); When I use LWA_ALPHA then also it works. Problem is that I am not able to...

gitextensions install fails on windows 7 with invald short file name

Installing a recent gitextensions on a windows 7 machine gives me an "invalid short file name username.user". Installing as a different user, even as local admin works, but the extensions work only when I am logged on as this user. As normal user, I can start the exe and it works fine, but the explorer integration and VS plugins don't ...

Hang With ScardConnectA on Win 7 64bit

Hi There, I am updating a smart card application (.net 2 using winscard.dll) to run on Windows 7. Only minor changes are required for 32bit. Under 64bit there appears to be a hang calling SCardConnectA - it sits and does not return. Stopping the smart card service/removing the card allows the application to complete. The .net app uses ...

Installing Java in Win7 64bit

I have a new laptop and attempted to install jdk-1_5_0_22-windows-amd64, jdk-1_5_0_22-windows-i586-p and jdk-6u22-windows-i586 without success. I have used java before and I am familiar with environment variables. However I cannot get the java version at command prompt or the java compiler to work. Also I am using Blackberry JDE and...

How do Windows 7 Touch events work?

Specifically are they published to the default port 3333 via UDP? ...

Windows 7 NotifyIcon GUID spoof-protection

I am currently working on learning some different aspects of WINAPI, including features introduced in windows 7.. One of those is using a GUID as identifier for a Notification icon. As can be read on the MSDN, the GUID is bound to the executable by path, the first time the notification icon is added. This page in question promises furth...

how to resolve OCI-04030 ?

how to resolve OCI-04030 ? OS : window 7 32-bit web server : tomcat 6.0 ...

Windows 7: IIS 7.5 w/ PHP & MySQL or Apache w/ PHP & MySQL?

I just got my self a new laptop, it runs on windows 7 and i am in deliberation what dev environment to set up. I have most of my life used wamp set up, on windows machines for local dev environments. Here i recently installed IIS and it looks very convenient to set up sites and so on and so forth. So I am thinking of installing php and...

Using Windows 7 Taskbar progress indicator from a Windows Explorer namespace extension

I have a namespace extension and when the user does certain action we display a progress bar in a separate window (Ideally we should use the Windows Explorer built in progress indicator in the address bar, but I'm told that there isn't an API for that from my component vendor). I using the Windows Code Pack 1.1 to get a .NET API. This p...

Error with Event ID: 2002 and Source: EapHost

I constantly receive in Event Viewer an Error at every reboot: Skipping: Eap method DLL path name validation failed. Error: typeId=21, authorId=29114, vendorId=0, vendorType=0 Source: EapHost Event ID: 2002 Level: Error User: System Task Category: Peer Keywords: Registry Someone have any idea? ...

Does Windows 7 hide files from Ruby?

I am trying to run the program nbtstat.exe(located in c:\windows\system32) from a ruby script. The problem is that it appears that Windows 7(64-bit) is hiding the program from the ruby script(it works fine in Vista). For example, Nbtstat command: "nbtstat" Dir command: dir "C:\Windows\System32\n*.exe" If I run the nbtstat command in ...

C++ hibernate a hard disk (programatically)

In OS's like WS2008R2 and its compliment 7, I need to hibernate one (of two) hard drives. The hard drive in question gets hot (cos its old) and is only used to write images of the main HD too once a week. I would like to issue it a "sleep" or "hibernate" command. Also, I dont want it to wake up when unless an app is needs to read/write...

VB3 decompiler?

Someone I used to work for emailed me out of the blue and said they want me to update a VB3 (!!!) program I wrote for them because customers are reporting having problems running it under Windows 7. They have lost the source code (natch). Is there a decompiler for VB3? ...

How to run a Simple C Program in Eclipse IDE

I've downloaded Eclipse C/C++ IDE . I need to run a simple c program in this(To print welcome). While trying to run the program its popping up an error message like "Launch failed: Binary not found" . Need i install any compiler package. ? Please help me to do this. ...

IDE for C Programming?

Can any one suggest me a Best IDE for C programming ( With auto completion feature)? ...

What does "Can not obtain ownership information" in Netstat -ab mean?

(Windows 7 x86) If I run "netstat -ab", I get a list of active connections, along with the names of the applications which have opened the connections. However, some connections (including the one opened by my app) are listed as "Can not obtain ownership information". Why? Thanks, Darren. ...

Delphi windows 7 control panel component

Hi, Im looking for a delphi component that looks and functions like the Windows 7 control panel buttons when you "view by category". Anybody know if something like this already exists? ...

.NET Windows 7 Deployment: Error on adding event viewer entry

My WPF application works fine on other machines. However when i deployed it on a 64-bit Win7 box it crashed when attempting to add an entry in the eventviewer. I could retrieve the following error details. Any ideas? Please help. Log Name: Application Source: Application Error Date: 10/21/2010 2:47:39 PM Event ID: ...