Hello, I'm looking for a script (Perl, Python or batch would be fine) that will go through a designated file tree and renames all the child files. For example, Folder1>File1.anytype becomes Folder1>Folder1File1.anytype. Thanks ...
Can I access a named pipe on computer A from computer B given computer A's IP address? If so, what do I need to do to make this happen? ...
How would one search for files on a computer? Maybe looking for certain extensions. I need to iterate through all the files and examine file names. Say I wanted to find all files with an .code extension. ...
I need to provide remote assistance to the users of my app, through the Internet. I need a reference for doing this, and I need to make the whole connecting to remote desktop process as easy as clicking a menu of my app for my users. I don't want them to get too involved with the procedure. I believe the built-in remote assistance featu...
Hello, I'm running windows Vista and I'm trying to drag an MS Outlook task into a file system folder. On doing so I get an error dialog saying: 'The extended attribute table file is full'. Any ideas how I recover from that state? Thanks, Dave. ...
i want a 100 years calender which shows the indian days like amavasya and poornima? if someone knows any program/software let me know i would be grateful to him.. thanks. i want to find the day from poornima or amavasya for example - in the year 1936 when was shivratri aur janmasthami.i want to find day according to these specification...
Basically, I'm looking for a IsWindowMoving(HWND) Win32 API call. I need to know if the user is currently moving a window. The window doesn't belong to me, so listening for WM_SYSCOMMAND / SC_MOVE or WM_MOVING isn't possible (I don't want to subclass or hook due to 32/64 interop). ...
As my question on the same topic (but specific to PHP) doesn't seem to yield much help, I would like to know if there are free Windows binaries (preferably those which don't require .NET runtime environment) which could take as input (on the command line) some tabular data and output an image? Edit: By tabular data I mean an HTML table....
I need to develop a print driver to print from any application into a TIFF file. Does someone know of resources or a good SDK vendor that would enable me to do that? Environment is Windows, any language. ...
I am using Windows Server 2003 to host a few websites. I have the Windows Firewall enabled along with Remote Desktop and FTP. I am considering installing AVG Free for basic protection. Is this enough? Should i install anti virus on my production server? Can anyone give any tips on bare minimum standard security setup? ...
I'm working on a project that has to read and manipulate QuickTimes on Windows. Unfortunately, all the tutorials and sample code at the Apple site seem to be pretty much Mac specific. Is there a good resource on the web that deals specifically with programming QuickTime for Windows? Yes, I know that I can bludgeon my way (eventually) thr...
Microsoft provides a way of mounting a read-only snapshot as a volume using their vshadow program. However, it does not provide a way to unmount the snapshot (I wonder what would happen if I deleted the snapshot?). Going through the documentation on MSDN I found UnexposeSnapshot Method, and added the ability to use it in the vshadow. How...
Is there a way to force a browser window to always be on top and in focus? I am working on a project that I need to have the browser window on top and in focus all the time except when closing the browser window. I have tried a few things through javascript, but have not had any success keeping the window in focus. I am not trying t...
Hi Folks, we are trying to create an MSI Installer for an app which under Windows Server 2003. The app needs users to be able to log on via Remote Desktop. Using the "TerminalServer" property looked like the correct test to ensure that's the case, but this returns "false" on machines which do have the right OS with Terminal Service runn...
Hello all. I'm using Python 3.0. How to expand an environment variable given the %var_name% syntax? Any help is much appreciated! Thanks! ...
CMD.EXE is posing lots of problems for me. I have Cygwin installed and use bash regularly, and I also have the mingwin bash shell that comes with mSysGit, but sometimes I really do need to run things from the Windows shell. Is there a replacement for the Windows shell that: has a persistent command-line history, available in my next ...
Many USB devices contain a unique serial number (which is actually a Unicode string) which the host can use in conjunction with the 16-bit vendor and product ID numbers to uniquely identify the device. I'm trying to figure out how to write a Windows application that would be able to display a list of all USB human interface devices atta...
I'd like to port an application written under linux to windows. Currently I'm using Cygwin but I'm curious if there are any other options that don't force me to release my source since I'm not in the position to do so right now. Are there any other options short of having to completely re-write it or buying a license? ...
I have to run 32-bit code on WinXP or Win2003. Nehalem Xeons (5500 series) should be the fastest, but I'm not sure what'll happen with the memory arrangement. I'm unsure about 2 parts: To get a maximal speed memory setup, I'll need to install at least 6gb of RAM (to give each CPU 3 sticks to work with). Is the memory interleaved in suc...
Does anyone know why there is some hesitation when you hold down a keyboard key and try to process it? I'm calling a function right in my WinProc(...) that will move an image on the screen (OpenGL) when a key is held down. I press it and get a single response, then there is about .5 seconds of nothing, then it behaves as normal (moves 1 ...