Does anyone know a solution to this problem? I'm unable to open a subdirectory within a symboliclink'd directory. I've confirmed that the paths are correct (even copy & pasted the path into explorer, which parsed it fine). This is a strange, annoying, bug :|. Example: C:\folder\symbolic_link\dir1\dir2 - opening dir2 fails. C:...
I am interested in knowing what the best software would be to build an installation package that performs the following: Installs client application Detects all SQL server instances on network, allowing user to select specific database to upgrade (which would then upgrade database using an embedded SQL script) Installs website on a ser...
I have a Perl program which does something like below: #!perl use strict; use warnings; my $exe = "C:\\project\\set_env_and_run.bat"; my $arg1 = "\\\\Server\\share\\folder1"; my $arg2 = "D:\\output\\folder1"; my $cmd = "$exe \"$arg1\" \"$arg2\""; my $status = system("$cmd > c:\\tmp\\out.txt 2>&1"); print "$status\n"; I...
Can anyone recommend me an overview about certificate management? I'm a big "learn from Wikipedia" type of guy but the relevant data there is general information on public-key cryptography, and I'm looking to map that to practical knowledge about how certs are used (web browsing, exchange of business messages, etc.) I don't need super-d...
I found this http://stackoverflow.com/questions/25461/stdbool-h-c as an answer to "where is stdbool.h on windows?" but now need to know what to do with it. I'm actually trying to install the lazyboy python extension on windows and this is the first error that I'm receiving. So, being completely unfamiliar with this, where do I put th...
Hi, I am looking for a build system (working on ms windows) that has good support for parallelization of tasks/targets (or whatever you call them). To be more specific - during build (that is initiated on MS Windows machine) I need to copy source files to a number of different machines (which are not necessarily running Windows) and st...
Hi, I've created an application with the option to start on Windows startup. First I did this via the Registry, like this: private void RunOnStartup(bool RunOnStartup) { Microsoft.Win32.RegistryKey key = Microsoft.Win32.Registry.CurrentUser.OpenSubKey("SOFTWARE\\Microsoft\\Windows\\CurrentVersion\\Run", true); if (RunOnStartup) ...
I need to write a program that detects (and records statistics of) how often the user uses the mouse to activate application menu items (such as open, save, copy, paste). My question is: is there a way to detect that the user actually clicks one of these menu items? I have used Winspector to see what WM_xxx events are being fired, but ...
Hello, I am trying to implement a poor-man's backup/mirroring script and am having some trouble. I am on Windows-XP, using Ruby's FileUtils module to recursively copy files. So long as I don't set the :preserve flag to true, everything works fine. Works: FileUtils.cp_r('Source_dir', 'Dest_dir', :verbose => true) Doesn't work: Fil...
Been hit with some nasty javascript malware on my site. I know that each offending code block starts with the following: <script language=javascript><!-- (function() and ends with </script> I'd like to remove the nasty bits via regex on windows, using some sort of freeware regex replacement tool. Any suggestions here? Thank Yo...
Is there any way to manually or programmaticaly set the UI Language so that in my tests I can get a different results from GetUserDefaultUILanguage? Or anyone know the settings within Windows where I can change this? ...
Maybe this is a foolish question, I can't see why I can not get a DC created in the following code : HBITMAP COcrDlg::LoadClippedBitmap(LPCTSTR pathName,UINT maxWidth,UINT maxHeight) { HBITMAP hBmp = (HBITMAP)::LoadImage(NULL, pathName, IMAGE_BITMAP, 0, 0, LR_LOADFROMFILE | LR_CREATEDIBSECTION); ...
I need to communicate with a Service using IPC from inside of a Browser Helper Object (registered with IE8). Unfortunately, all of this communication is done through an Assembly API that I have no control over. Whenever this API starts up I get the following error: ExceptionSystem.Runtime.Remoting.RemotingException: Failed to conne...
I have built an application which uses user executable through WScript com object. Now the main program is located in C:\Program files\Myapp Curl executable is located in C:\Curl But it looks like my application is unable to execute curl if main application is in Program files. If i move it to another location it can execute curl nicely....
I'm looking for some guidance on how to automat applying a set of permissions withn the local security policy to a multiple users on multiple servers. For example, via a script, I want to apply "act as part of the operating system" and "adjust memoroy quotas for a process" to user TEST1 and TEST2. Any feedback on how to get started w...
Hello. I'm fixing some bugs in the application for remote control (remote desktop-like) for Windows. And there is a feature that you can blank screen on remote machine - all the programms keep running unaffected, but the person who looks into the display on remote PC sees nothing but black screen. It is implemented by sending IoCtl requ...
Hi, For my work, I need to create a service that will detect an abnormal program termination and, instead of displaying a message to the user (default behavior), send the generated core dump to a remote server. I'm pretty sure this can be done, but I have absolutely no clue on where to start. Is there any API/registry settings for this...
Is there a Windows 3.1 / 95 emulator for Windows XP? ...
Trying to put up a "Do you want to save"-dialog when trying to close window with close-button in taskbar thumbnail in windows 7(with aero peek active). Using MessageBox() when processing WM_CLOSE does not work. MessageBox won't show until you move mouse cursor outside thumbnail so aero peek is disabled. Lots of applications have this b...
Hi, I have main form with FlowLayoutPanel that has some buttons (20 buttons), everything is OK when the user resize the main form. then I added background image to the FlowLayoutPanel, and when I try to resize the form the whole form will freeze for few seconds then appear? Any Idea why this behavior? Thanks, ...