I am in need of a way to mute a specific application in Vista. Example: Mute just Firefox, but not all of the other application. Much similar to muting a specific program from within the volume mixer in vista. If there is a program that will do this, i would appreciate that. Otherwise if there is a way to do this, I will write a sma...
Recently I got IE7 crashed on Vista on jar loading (presumably) with the following error: Problem signature: Problem Event Name: BEX Application Name: iexplore.exe Application Version: 7.0.6001.18000 Application Timestamp: 47918f11 Fault Module Name: ntdll.dll Fault Module Version: 6.0....
Hi there, I have a VS2005 deployment & setup project, that makes use of the Tablet PC SDK 1.7 Merge Module, so users of Windows XP can make use of the managed Microsoft.Ink.DLL library. Now that we've moved over to Vista/VS2008, do I still need to install the TPC SDK (to get the merge module) or can I make use of something that Vista h...
When I drag & drop a dll to the assembly folder on vista, I get the error "Access is denied: mydll.dll". How can I bypass the error message and add my dll to gac? ...
I'm looking at a new computer which will probably have vista on it. But there are so many editions of vista; are there any weird restrictions on what you can run on the various editions? For instance you couldn't run IIS on Windows ME. Can you still run IIS on the home editions of vista? ...
How would I go about replacing Windows Explorer with a third party tool such as TotalCommander, explorer++, etc? I would like to have one of those load instead of win explorer when I type "C:\directoryName" into the run window. Is this possible? ...
In prior versions of Windows before Vista you could have a Windows Service interact with the current logged in desktop user to easy display information on the screen from the service. In Windows Vista Session 0 was added for security to isolate the services from the desktop. What is an easy way to communicate between a service and an app...
How to obtain Vista Edition programmatically, that is Home Basic, Home Premium, Business or Ultimate ? ...
Hi - I've having trouble directly accessing the Win32_OperatingSystem management class that is exposed via WMI. It is a singleton class, and I'm pretty certain "Win32_OperatingSystem=@" is the correct path syntax to get the instance of a singleton. The call to InvokeMethod produces the exception listed at the bottom of the question, as...
I want Windows Update to automatically download and install updates on my Vista machine, however I don't want to be bothered by the system tray reboot prompts (which can, at best, only be postponed by 4 hours). I have performed the registry hack described here to prevent Windows forcibly rebooting my machine, which is a good start. Howe...
I'm working on an installer (using Wise Installer, older version from like 1999). I'm creating a shortcut in the Programs group to an EXE. I'm also creating a shortcut on the Desktop. If the install is run from an Admin account, then I create the shortcut on the Common Desktop and Common Program Group (i.e., read from the HKEY_LOCAL_MA...
I'm troubleshooting a problem with creating Vista shortcuts. I want to make sure that our Installer is reading the Programs folder from the right Registry entry. It's reading it fromK HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Shell Folders\Programs And it's showing this directory for Programs: C:\Users\NonAd...
As part of a JavaScript Profiler for IE 6/7 I needed to load a custom debugger that I created into IE. I got this working fine on XP, but couldn't get it working on Vista (full story here: http://damianblog.com/2008/09/09/tracejs-v2-rip/). The call to GetProviderProcessData is failing on Vista. Anyone have any suggestions? Thanks, ...
HyperTerminal is a program that you can use to connect to other computers, Telnet sites, bulletin board systems (BBSs), online services, and host computers, using either your modem, a null modem cable or Ethernet connection. But My main usage of Hyperterminal is to communicate with hardware through local (virtual )COM port...
How do I set up a network between the Host and the guest OS in Windows vista? ...
I hope everyone will pardon the length, and narrative fashion, of this question. I decided to describe the situation in some detail in my blog. I later saw Joel's invitation to this site, and I thought I'd paste it here to see if anyone has any insight into the situation. I wrote, and now support, an application that consists of a Vis...
I'm using an identical call to "CryptUnprotectData" (exposed from Crypt32.dll) between XP and Vista. Works fine in XP. I get the following exception when I run in Vista: "Decryption failed. Key not valid for use in specified state." As expected, the versions of crypt32.dll are different between XP and Vista (w/XP actually having the m...
Is there a reliable way to detect whether or not WinHelp is installed on Windows Vista or newer versions of Windows? If possible, I'd like a solution that's not specific to any particular version of Windows. I've posted this question to other message boards and got back answers regarding the size of Winhlp32.exe before and after install...
Some points to consider when answering my question: I'm new to PHP, coming from a Windows / .NET background My PHP dev enviroment consists of a Vista x64 / IIS7 with FastCGI / PHP5 I need something light-weight The following features would be nice Syntax highlighting and colorization Code formating Auto-completion ...
I have a shortcut on my desktop which opens a command prompt with many arguments that I need. I set the 'start in' field to d:\ and it works as expected (the prompt starts in d:). When I choose Advanced -> run as administrator and then open the shortcut, it starts in C:\Windows\System32, even though I have not changed the 'start in' fi...