Hello, I needed to recover the partition table I deleted accidentally. I used an application named TestDisk. Its simply mind blowing. I reads each cylinder from the disk. I've seen similar such applications which work with MBR & partitioning. I'm curious. How do they read clusters/cylinders/sectors from the disk? Is there some ...
How to get the OS version for all windows, at least the name for win95,98,me,xp,vista,7? Im using visual c++ 2010 and I want to include this feature in a pure win32 app. ...
Hi there, I am currently trying to get SoX working through PHP. It all works so far, but I don't get the output back. I've already read that one might route stderr also to the output with "2>&1" .. the problem is, this doesn't seem to work on windows machines. any other ideas? code is as follows: exec($path2sox . '/sox ' . $cmd . ' 2...
I need to set up sqllite for Perl on a Windows box. However - Perl is probably being run over the network from a central server, and I do not know what modules will be available on initial running of my script. I can guarantee Perl 5.8+ (activestate) or Perl 5.10+ (strawberry). Therefore, I need to package sqlite & the associated Perl ...
Hello, As a paper saving drive throughout the organization, we plan to set 2 page printing (back to back) as default setting on all the Windows machines. Is it possible to program this in .NET / Java (or any scripting language)? Can we change printer properties by a program? Thanks for your time. ...
One of the drop down lists in my Java SWT application has 8 fixed options. When I click on it only 5 first options are visible and I have to scroll the list down to view the rest. Is there any way to force it to make all options visible without having to scroll down? There is another similar .NET application that has same drop down lis...
Hi I am currently trying to build an application, that will talk to the super IO chip using port IO. As part of that, I am trying to develop a kernel-mode windows driver that I can contact, and which will do the IO for me. I have therefore downloaded the Windows Driver Kit v7.1.0, build 7600.16385.1, and I am trying to compile and insta...
I was wondering how such performance can be achieved on windows as I noticed snowberd is even faster than DOS "dir" command, even in mapped network drives...? Any idea what algo/technology are used to get such fast directory browsing...? ...
Hi, In Windows, for very demanding applications, a programmer may use HeapCreate, HeapAlloc in order to better manage and control the allocation of memory- speed it up (aka private allocators). What is the equivalent in Linux c++ programming? ...
I would like to plot some image binary data on a grayscale matrix-like graph with custom values on axes. I'm using Perl on a Windows machine but I can't fine the right module to do this. I'm already using GD::Graph to plot other type of data but it seems unsuitable for this specific task. ...
I'm currently developing a window application in VS2005,i need to make a setup of the product..and i had used setup and deployment project in VS2005 and created the setup but in the setup process... dialogs cannot be modified.. according to my needs...(ie it will be the same for all products installation only can change the heading , pro...
Hi, I am developing program on window's using msys and mingw. I want to have similar function as provided by WINAPI CreateFile(). Is there any solution for this? Regards, Dhaval ...
How to apply scrollbar to windows mobile application.using .net compact framewrk,and windows mobile 6 profesional ...
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Is there a Windows equivalent of ncurses for PHP? I've created a CLI script and want to display various statistics (currently processed record, completion percentage etc.) in a nice way, without outputting loads and heaps of text to the cmd.exe window. The ncurses extension doesn't work on Windows. ...
I am using Video For Window's AVIFile functions. When I use AVIFileOpen I notice that it uses the flag FILE_FLAG_NO_BUFFERING when creating the .avi file. ProcessMonitor shows the that file was created with "no buffering". This flag is causing performance issues and I was wondering if there is a way to use this function without that flag...
I am trying to write a script that I can give to user to have it automatically zip certain files of theirs and then load them onto an ftp site. Anyone know where I could find information on writing a batch file for auto-zipping files using only what is available to a user running windows? I have been looking for quite a bit but I am st...
I've been learning how to write drivers with the Windows DDK recently. After creating a few test drivers experimenting with system threads and synchronization, I decided to step it up a notch and write a driver that actually does something, albeit something useless. Currently, my driver connects to my other computer using Winsock Kernel ...
I am having a problem accessing a mapped drive in ColdFusion. I have \\server\files\sharing mapped to z:\. If I run this code, it says the directory exists for the full path but not for the mapped one: <cfscript> fullPath = "\\server\files\sharing\reports"; mappedPath = "z:\reports"; WriteOutput("fullPath exists: #DirectoryExist...
This question addresses how to register a custom URL protocol to launch an application in response to a link, but I want my handler to serve dynamic content. Essentially, I'm looking to create a web application that runs on the user's machine instead of a web server. I could set up a localhost, but I want to use a "friendly" URL format...