Has anyone noticed this odd behavior of application that utilize D3D or OpenGL when they go to full screen in Windows? It applies only when applications go to full screen and then switch back to window or terminate. They either shuffle window positions of other applications (when I am on single monitor machine), or move all the other ap...
I have a lot of session state when programming - shell windows, ides, virtual machines, web browsers. This is all lost when the session ends i.e. when logging out or rebooting.
Is there a way to save the desktop state on MS Windows XP and have it restored later? Ideally the solution would allow multiple sessions to be saved and allow ...
I have an application which has an asynchronous operation built into it that loops over a large number of items and performs lengthy calculations on each item, as this occurs certain conditions will cause the application to pop up a modal dialog for user input. Interestingly, I noticed while running this today that in one application ins...
I'm trying to run javascript from a windows command line via script
cscript //NoLogo test.js
However, I can't find any predefined objects which are available. I'm totally at a loss - Can't get hello world to work:
System.print("Hello, World!")
results in "System" is undefined
Is there another way I should be running this - like thr...
I have a number of asp and asp.net 2.0 applications that I need to move to a new Win2003 server.
I've created a test suite to verify that different aspects are installed and configured properly, but other than exporting the IIS metabase from the two servers and comparing manually, are there any tools or techniques I'm missing?
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I maintain a number of load balanced web servers running Windows Server 2003. Today when I want to make a change to those servers, I use a tedious process of opening a remote desktop connection to each of those servers then running a command from the command prompt on each server. This takes a lot of time.
What I would like to do is r...
Is it possible to legally progressive play Windows Media DRM tracks as they are downloaded from a HTTP link?
I've managed to do this without DRM but someone here told me it wasn't possible with DRM. Is this true?
And if so with what set of libraries or technologies?
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The canned DllMain for MFC 8.0 does not seem to call ExitInstance when it gets a DLL_PROCESS_DETACH. One possible solution is to define my own DllMain, but how do I tell the linker to use mine and not MFC's?
Or, is there another override which gets called on DLL_PROCESS_DETACH I'm not aware of?
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I have an application consisting of an ASP.NET web application, a couple of Windows services, and a SQL Server 2005 database. This application is replicated at several sites, so that each site has a server containing all parts (web app, services, & DB). Currently the process for deploying updates is this:
Database
Script database ch...
I'm working on an application that happens to be the bootstrap for an installer that I'm also working on. The application makes a few MSI calls to get information that I need for putting together the wizard that is my application's main window, which causes a progress window to open while the info is being gathered and then go away once ...
I am trying to connect a CGI process to my windows service with a named pipe.
My code runs fine using another server on my development machine, but on IIS there are security issues when I call CreateFile() in the CGI process.
The Windows service is the Named Pipe Server and so the CGI process is trying to connect to that named pipe as a...
windows only record 1 user/pwd to a remote share dir,
and my program need to connect a dir,
but the user may login first, let my program failed to connect,
is there a method to disconnect it? i only know the IP.
I use wnetcancelconnection2(remotedir) first, but still cannot work,
and return 1219 error(credentials supplied conflict w...
We have a curious problem with our java processes dying.
The application doesn't stacktrace, or write anything to the logs, the process just randomly dies. It's a heavily used application, but the problem only appears about once a month.
We're currently looking into using Process Monitor but any other suggestions would be welcome.
Edi...
Hello
Sun's virtualbox windows binaries are under 'non-commercial' license so can't be used in any company. But source code is GPL. Is it any resource on the network that has a virtualbox compiled binaries for windows?
Added a bounty to see if I can get a little more feedback.
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Is it possible to programmatically set such windows console parameters as its left-top desktop position, console font, fast insert and selection by mouse options, etc. ?
EDIT Unfortunately we can set some console parameters by invoking undocumented Windows API. For example: SetConsoleFont, GetConsoleFontInfo, GetNumberOfConsoleFonts fro...
I know how to retrieve a normal machine wide environment variable in CMAKE using
$ENV{EnvironmentVariableName}
but I can not retrieve a user specific environment variable. Is it possible and how?
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After migrating to Windows, I'm using msysgit with its included bash shell, and that's working well for me. But I have issues: our ant build process won't run in that shell, I'd like to use Cygwin's xterms instead of the Windows command window, since the terminal compatibility isn't good enough to run everything else I'd like in that wi...
I need to programatically create a directory that grants "Full Control" to the group "Everyone". If I use
CreateDirectory(path, NULL)
This will, according to the Win32 SDK documentation this will create a directory that inherits from its parent directory. I do not want to inherit the access rights of the parent directory I need to e...
Can anyone explain what is Windows Event Logging?
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I need to get the list of all the files on a drive. I am using a recursive solution. But it is taking a lot of time. I was wondering that, is it possible to get the names and location of all the files on a NTFS drive from it's Master File Table? I think it will be very fast. Any suggestions?
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