What is the purpose of the csrss.exe (Client/Server Runtime Server Subsystem) on Windows? Maybe someone could give a good explanation or pointers to documentation? Unfortunately Google results are pretty noisy when searching a core process of Windows. The reason I'm asking is that I got a BSOD from my service application which seems t...
I am getting the following error when i try to run the command from remote machine C:>sc \machinename query [SC] OpenSCManager FAILED 1722: The RPC server is unavailable. I have admin previlages to that machine. Any solution let me know. ...
I'm starting work on a project that must be delivered in WinPE. I will likely be able to use WinPE 3.0. I'm also aware of Bart's PE and VistaPE, but I think I'm going to stick with WinPE. I need x64 support and the full range of storage drivers. I want to develop an app with a GUI and network access. I would like to work in Visual Studi...
How do I write to the serial port in Vista from Python? The termios package only seem to support posix. ...
Hello, I'm getting a strange 5 to 7 second pause when executing PHP scripts from the command-line PHP client (PHP 5.2 on Windows). During this pause the PHP script just appears to 'freeze' for a while before returning to the command prompt. It is not using any significant CPU time, it's like it is waiting for some delay. After experi...
What are the drawbacks (if any) of using memory mapped file to read (regular sized files) over doing the same using CreateFile ReadFile combination? ...
On most newer computers you can shutdown the hard way by pressing the power button for a couple of seconds. But I want to prevent this completely. You're able to prevent some soft events like the sleep, suspend, hibernate and "Press power button" events in Windows control panel; you can also use some Win32 and WDI programming to catch a...
Hi,I installed a Linux systems on a VMWare which is a guest of Windows XP operating systems. How can I get files stored in XP file systems directly when working in Linux environment? Thanks. ...
I want to develop a bandwidth allocator to a network which will be behind my machine. Now, I've read about NDIS but I am not sure whether the network traffic that is neither originating from my machine nor is destined for my machine will enter my TCP/IP stack, so that I can block/unblock packets via NDIS on a windows machine. ...
I have a batch (bat / cmd) file which should act as a filetype handler for jpeg files in Firefox, I just want it to copy the file to another folder, and then open the file in the Picasa Viewer. When I run it from the command line, even if I'm running it from another folder, it works fine, and opens Picasa Viewer. However, when setting it...
I want to display the list of shared drives connected to my system running Windows. Is there any tutorial for this? I have tried the following code in PHP: echo "<select id = 'drives'><option>Drives</option>"; for ($ii=66;$ii<92;$ii++) { $char = chr($ii); if (opendir($char.":/")) echo "<option>".$char."</option>"; } ec...
GetSystemInfo will give you the number of physical CPUs / cores, but I would like to know the total number of virtual CPUs. I.e. on the new Nahelam chips, they have 4 cores, but appear as 8 cpus. If GetSystemInfo doesn't give this information, what API do I need (I've seen a function for getting number of logical processors, but it is V...
Hi, How to remove windows user account using C#? Thanks, ...
We have a Java application server running on Sun Solaris. We now need to be able to write files and read files to/from a separate machine, which is running WindowsXP. These 2 machines are administered by 2 separate groups within the same firewall. If it is easier, we could use Java to write the file to Solaris and then use some 3rd pa...
Hello, i have to work away from my desktop computer from time to time (for instance on trips). It is a low end laptop. I can use Eclipse but it is awfully slow. Is there a better choice? If possible not something like vi oder emacs. Laptop: 512 MB DDR RAM Intel Pentium M 760 2.0 GHz Windows XP SP3 There is no possibility to add more ...
I often find I have 10 browser windows (some firefox, some ie) running, each with multiple tabs. I'd like to be able to: 1) Consolidate all the URL's into a list, suitable for emailing 2) Merge all the tabs into one instance of either FF or IE Anyone ever come across a utility like this, and if not, have any idea how a person might do ...
I have a CAB file that contains a few DLLs, and an OCX ActiveX control, an OSD describing the contents, and an INF for installing the DLLs and ActiveX control. These are coming from a 3rd party, so I can't control anything except how they are distributed to the client. They are being used within a Java applet, and they work cross brows...
I'm trying to figure out the font DPI size on the target Windows machine and modify our app's font so that it appears the same size as it would if the target machine had the same dpi as the dev machine. (So a larger Target DPI would mean we'd make our fonts smaller than at dev time). I'm wondering if there are any problems with the solu...
By Windows PC displays, I am not referring to Windows CE, or handhelds, etc. Clarification Some folks below mistakenly thought I was asking what the DPI (dots per inch) was on monitors. What I'm asking for is the value for LogPixelsX in the GetCaps API call : LOGPIXELSX Number of pixels per logical inch along the screen width. In th...
Hi, Does anybody knows how to get the paragraph the user is pointing his mouse to? It shouldn't depend on application that is used. A good example are dictionary apps that will translate the word when you right-click on it while holding ctrl. I'm curious how they are doing that, because I'm thinking about creating word learning tool...