windows-xp

VS2010 build times Win XP vs. Win 7

Hello, I am trying to determine which OS is the best one for VC++ VS2010. I know that Microsoft recommends Win7 x64 however I did some testing and the results are quite confusing: Build times (single threaded compilation on q9650 CPU) of reference VC++ project under different OS: Win XP 32bit: 00:02:50.95 Win 7 32bit: 00:03:09.99 Wi...

Java with windows registry

The windows registry contains Boolean, DWords, Strings, Bitmap, Double, DateTime, bitmap java does not. Connecting to:- DWords is easy with a longinteger and the same with Boolean. Java only handles real numbers when DateTime and Double numbers are larger than real numbers. Does that mean you cannot record date and time in Java and doubl...

Unable to kill instances of cmd.exe on Win XP

A new command prompt pops up when I debug a windows console application and it doesn't go away when application finishes. I have to plenty (in fact 18) of them open and it is annoying. The following doesn't help: Pressing "X" button on top right of command prompt. Go to task manager and kill the cmd.exe. kill/pskill commands etc. I ...

C# get network connection status and speed in XP

Hi, how can I get the connection statues and speed in windows XP? ...

Set write permissions for all users for my program folder

Hello, I have build a program in Visual Studio. The program creates a logfile and writes into it while the program is running. Therefore I constructed an installer (setup-project), that should set write permissions for my program-folder regardless which user works with the program. currently it looks like this: // ... } InitializeCom...

FATAL ERROR when installing XP OS

ERROR: Installation Failed: D:\1386\asms. Error Message :Incorrect function Note: I partioned my space into C,E,F,G How can recover this one. Thanks in Advance. ...

VPN (L2TP/UDP) using xp in Virtualbox on Fedora 13

Hi guys, I am trying to connect to a clients VPN which is using L2TP and UDP. I would like to be able to keep my Fedora 13 development enviorment and just setup windows XP in virtualbox and pass the connection through. Is this feasible? Does anyone have experience with this? Thanks, Greg ...

how to increase the input line length(max) in windows?

in my one batch file i set a variable, after running this batch file it shows the error "The input line is too long." how to overcome from this problem. or it is possible to increase the input line length(max) in windows? ...

Certain fields in .ini files do not get saved if the path name of the .ini is longer than 128 chars.

I am working on a program in Visual Studio 2003 C++ that saves data with .ini files. The program is already written; it's a full blown windows application that analyses patient data taken from a sleep lab (lots and lots of lines of code). The program uses .ini files to read and write patient data, such as patient name, patient id, do...

programmatically obtaining special folder write permission using User Access Control in Windows 7 and Vista

I need to write a shortcut in the automatic startup folder for all users. The scenario is that a user with administrator privileges, through the configuration dialog of the application, must be able to set the application to start automatically for all normal users when they log in. I get the startup folder using SHGetSpecialFolderPa...

Create process 14001 .net

Hi guys, Currently I am struggling with a very annoying problem, namely when I deploy my .net 2.0 application on Windows XP (without any SP) I am receiving a CreateProcess error with error code 14001. When I looked in the event log, I noticed there is a problem with the syntax of manifest or policy file. I tried to find such file in th...

Access violation while the program was idle - not trace information to track down the bug

Hi. I have a program that just popped up an AV. Until now the Eureka Log could find the source code line that generated the error but now it displays only this: Access violation at address 7E452E4E in module 'USER32.dll'. Read of address 00000015. Call Stack Information: ----------------------------------------------------------------...

ASP.NET: How can I access a remote UNC path in IIS 6 on XP?

There are quite a few solutions here that discuss accessing a UNC path from IIS, however I need to get this to work under XP. How does one get ASP.NET (on XP) to access a remote UNC path? Where do I set the credentials? I've attempted the SU4User Impersonation extensions, setting the IIS anonymous account, etc, and think there is more...

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...

How do I run a .exe in the system tray?

Hi, I have an exe that is continuously running. Instead of having an open window all the time, Can it be minimized to the system tray? ...

Python: Executing an application to install a program

I am using a python script to execute an application to install a program. Using os.system('dir\\application.exe') works. However the installer has 2 installation parts and after completing the first one, it will hang there. The second one will only execute when I exit the python script. How can I get the whole installation process to c...

Exception Message: Some kind of disk I/O error occurred

I am getting this error when I try to run a update query on a SQLite database. This only happens on XP (on Vista works fine). The database is created without any issue, insert also works fine. I also checked and I have permissions and disk space available (as sqlite.org says these are possible causes). ...

php with oracle on IIS ...

yep, it sounds like an unholy alliance but I need to configure how to do it... for starters I have on my PC installed Oracles PL/SQL environment, with latest client (11g, I think) ... I can work in theirs IDE w/o any problems. I even can code desktop apps with C# and Oracle connector (etc.) Now, from MS site I can click on that Web Inst...

python on xp: errno 13 permission denied - limits to number of files in folder?

Hi, I'm running Python 2.6.2 on XP. I have a large number of text files (100k+) spread across several folders that I would like to consolidate in a single folder on an external drive. I've tried using shutil.copy() and shutil.copytree() and distutils.file_util.copy_file() to copy files from source to destination. None of these methods ...

How to install Windows XP from .exe file (no ISO)

I just formatted a computer and I would like to install a brand new image of Windows XP that I have on another external hard drive. The win XP I have is not an ISO is uncompressed: setup.exe + other files... What is the best way to install this. Do i need to make an ISO first (how?) and burn it to a CD or can i put it on a USB stick? Wha...