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Scheduling job on windows server 2008

Hi, I have a file located in c:\sample\file.exe. Now i want to execute file.exe every night.How can i achive this using batch file? Please help me out ...

Requesting Windows remote assistance via a button

Hi I want to make a simple application on Windows XP with a single button which says "Help" - that will launch Windows Messenger's Remote Assistance and connect to my MSN Messenger ID - this is detailed here: (http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/using/helpandsupport/learnmore/remoteassist/viaim.mspx) This is for my Dad or Mom who someti...

Boost Documentation

Hi, what's the easiest way for me to get a pdf of the boost-documentation? I have a windows system with eclipse cdt, mingw and boost just unzipped. ...

Saving user credentials in a Windows application

Is there is a best practices way to store credentials in a .NET Windows application, be it be a built in API or just a recommend encryption algorithm? Along the same lines as Tortoise SVN, Spotify and Skype. Edit: My intention is to use a web service that returns a token from it's authentication service. The other services then accept ...

Find out the current user's username - when multiple users are logged on

"User A" is logged on My application recognizes Environment.Username as "User A" Now in Windows, I click on Switch user ... "User B" logs on "User A's" processes are still running Application run by "User A" still says Environment.Username is "User A" I want the application to recognize that the currently logged on user (currently acti...

Java : how to determine disk space on Windows system prior to Java 1.6

I want to determine the available disk space on windows. I don't care that my code is not portable. I use this : String[] command = {"dir",drive}; Process process = Runtime.getRuntime().exec(command); InputStream result = process.getInputStream(); aiming to parse the result from a "dir C:" type of call, but the String I get from the c...

Suspending the execution of a remote process (C, Windows)

I can suspend a thread of another process by using SuspendThread(). Is there any way to also suspend the execution of that process altogether? If yes, please post code. Thanks. PS: Since you will ask "Why do you want to do this" I'll post it here. I am dealing with legacy software that is not maintained anymore. I don't have access to ...

curses-like library for cross-platform console app in python

hi there, i'm looking into developing a console-app in python which should be able to run under windows as well as linux. for this, i'd really like to use a high-level console library like curses. however, as far as i know, curses is not available on windows. what other options do i have? unfortunately, using cygwin under windows is not...

Best secure single running app guard on windows

Hello, I would like to improve the way how an application is checking that another instance is not already running. Right now we are using named mutexes with checking of running processes. The goal is to prevent security attacks (as this is security software). My idea right now is that "bulletproof" solution is only to write an driver,...

Running X windows applictions remotely from a Windows server

This may seem like a strange question but it has some value for the project I am currently working on. I have a Windows 2003 server running XMing (or Cygwinx). I am connecting to the server from Ubunutu using ssh with X11 forwarding enabled. When I launch any X application on the Windows 2003 server (such as xeyes) the application disp...

MDI Application minimize/restore issue

Ok, so I have a VB .Net MDI Forms Application. frmMain is the "parent" form with IsMDIContainer set to TRUE. I load "frmChild" from frmMain setting the MDIparent property to frmMain. I minimize the form, then minimize the application. I restore the application a few minutes later, then restore frmChild and find that frmChild is now t...

Monitoring for non-pgp files

For privacy reasons, I want to prevent my users from posting unencrypted files to my ftp site. It is company policy that all data exchanges of sensitive data be encrypted with PGP. I'd like to setup a program to monitor the ftp folders and whenever a new file is placed there, verify that it is in fact encrypted. I can't just rely on ...

How do you disable the Forum in DNN 4?

I have a dot net nuke 4 site with that has a forum. It is getting a lot spam and I wanted to know how I could disable the forum. Screenshots of the solution would be appreciated. ...

Getting the position of the gtk.StatusIcon on Windows

I am assisting with Windows support for a PyGTK app that appears as a system tray applet, but am not so strong on the GTK+ gooey stuff... We have it so when you left-click the systray icon, the window appears right by your tray icon no matter where your system tray is--and on Linux this works great, using the results of gtk.StatusIcon.g...

File.Copy vs. Manual FileStream.Write For Copying File

My problem is in regards file copying performance. We have a media management system that requires a lot of moving files around on the file system to different locations including windows shares on the same network, FTP sites, AmazonS3, etc. When we were all on one windows network we could get away with using System.IO.File.Copy(source, ...

Where is the best place to save temporary files in Windows

I am busy writing an application that runs under windows Where is the correct place to save temporary files ? ...

Linux vs. Windows: How does the console render unicode characters?

This is quite a low-level (low in the sense of "closer to the metal") question. I was wondering if any of you could point me to documentation, explanations, etc. of how, upon receiving a Unicode character (or any character code, but I'm particularly interested in the Unicode Standard) the console in Windows, good ol' cmd.exe (using, say...

graphviz/dot crash (turned out to be caused by faulty installation)

I'm trying to use the GraphViz tools to generate some dependency graphs but I'm having zero luck getting dot to export images. SVG works fine, but anything else (jpeg, gif, png) cause dot to crash. Here's my graph: digraph test { main -> parse -> execute; main -> init; main -> cleanup; execute -> make_string; execute -> printf in...

Memcached extension for PHP on Windows Server

Hello, my configuration: Windows 2008 IIS 7 PHP 5.2.10 / FastCGI Memcache as a Windows Service I tried to use the php_memcache extension for PHP but it doesn't load. This extension comes with PECL 5.2.6 Any idea? Do you know if exist a php_memcache"d" extension for PHP on Windows? BR Santiago ...

How to run a batch file from a network share in Vista without the warning dialog?

The publisher could not be verified. Are you sure you want to run this software? How can I automatically run this bat file on startup without the popup blocking it? The batch file is on a network share on another computer. ...