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Time limited trial and Windows Certification
If you want to implement a time limited trial for an application you would probably want to leave behind some flag (registry key, file etc) so a program couldn't just be re-installed. Are there any schemes that allow you to do this while still passing the various Windows Certification programs? ...
Can we Change the Value of ComponentsLocation from "Relative" to "HomeSite"?
hii, well i develop a setup.exe(bootstrapper) using GenerateBootstrapper.Bootstrapper to load my msi file after check and installing prerequisites.It perfectly running if i make ComponentsLocation *) either "HomeSite" to download prerequisites from the microsoft and install. *) or "Relative" t...
Active Wait in Windows I/O Driver
Continuing the question in: Keep windows trying to read a file Thanks to accepted answer in that question I realized that keeping windows waiting for data is a driver responsability. As i'm using Dokan, I am be able to look into the driver code. Dokan complete the IRP request with a STATUS_END...
How to work with startup in windows application(.net)
i created a small tool in windows application using (.net language C#). i created setup for my tool and also when we click on minimize button it will be in system tray. My requirement is i want to place my tool in start up (start>All Programs>Start up) when i start my system automatically m...
Duplicate file descriptor with its own file offset
How can one create a new file descriptor from an existing file descriptor such that the new descriptor does not share the same internal file structure/entry in the file table? Specifically attributes such as file offset (and preferably permissions, sharing and modes) should not be shared between ...
Oracle 10g express home page is not coming up
My Oracle 10g Express Edition , I can login in the SQL plus but I cannot login into oracle via SQL developer and cannot view the Home page at link http://127.0.0.1:8080/apex. This was working fine until yesterday. I have checked via (WINDOWS)netstat -ab and no other app is using the 8080 port. ...
how to maximize a windows mobile window?
how to maximize a windows mobile window ?
Hide console in C system() function, Win
I am coding a C program in Dev-C++, and I need to use a couple of Windows (CMD) commands. It is easy, but when the command in the system() function is executed, the program runs the console in the execution. An example: #include <stdio.h> #include <stdlib.h> #include <windows.h&g...
Network File Streaming Performance Vista
How can I achieve the best file streaming performance in Vista? My goal is to read a large file (several hundred MB) over the network directly into memory. I've allocated a memory block the same size as the file. This is also my destination buffer. I've tried ReadFile, _read, fread, ifstream::re...
How do I see the contents of Qt objects during debugging?
Many Qt classes uses pimpl, so they're very opaque to VS's debugger. This is bothersome when I want to check some internal Qt state to see if my code is doing it wrong or if I'm having wrong expectations of how things stand. I'm using the Qt VS add-in (1.1.0), but that doesn't seem to help. A...
How do I do a non-blocking IPC read on Windows?
I have a Perl script that uses an external tool (cleartool) to gather information about a list of files. I want to use IPC to avoid spawning a new process for each file: use IPC::Open2; my ($cin, $cout); my $child = open2($cout, $cin, 'cleartool'); Commands that return single-lines work well. ...
windows + Mac + app
I have written an app for windows and Mac environments i.e I have 2 files -- 1) abc.exe and 2)abc.app which work on windows and Mac respt. Now i want to put these two files into one unit like a jar or tar ball and ship that unit. The unit will also contain a script which should recognize the envi...
System Wide Shell Hook from .NET using Unmanaged DLL
I have used the code supplied in the following CodeProject article in the past with success, but it only seems to partially work on Vista/7 (I'm guessing because of UAC). It works for the current thread, but it doesn't pick up system wide activity. I've tried adding requireAdministrator in the ma...
How can I make my C++ code cross platform capable?
How can I make my C++ code cross platform capable? I need it to work on Windows and Xubuntu.
Read a single registry key value on a remote machine
I am having a very tough time achieving this one seemingly very simple goal... I have to gather the value of a single registry key on several machines for the sake of auditing whether the machines scanned need to be patched with newer versions of software. I am only permitted to use python 3 as...
Java: dealing properly with pipes as stdin
I get a weird error ("The process tried to write to a nonexistent pipe.") if I stop reading from piped input, from a program that works fine for non-piped input. How can I avoid causing this error? code: package com.example.test; import java.io.BufferedReader; import java.io.IOException; impor...
How do I make my Delphi 5 app display password "blobs"?
Pretty simple one, but I can't find the answer. I'm building an app in Delphi 5 Enterprise, and want my app to use the new bold black dot in a password field instead of an asterisk. How can I do this?
Win32 equivalent of getuid()
I'm in the process of porting a C++ library from Linux to Windows, and am having problems with getuid(), which is not supported in Windows. Any ideas what I can use in its place?
What is $Secure:$SDS:$DATA on Windows?
One of my customers has seen $Secure:$SDS:$DATA show up on their drive and it keeps growing while my app is running. I don't (knowingly) write to this file, and don't use any type of Windows secure storage (which might be related). Kind of stumped... Any thoughts on what this might be?
How to set php cron job?
I am using windows server 2003. I set a cron job, open IE explorer and run cron.php file. Basically, what the cron.php does is just send email to my own email address. I set it run every 2 minutes and run for 2 hours. I start the cron services, and I received the first email, but after that, I ...
Is Mono really cross-platform?
Official Mono project website says that Mono works successfully on Windows, Linux and Mac OS X. Is that true? I want to build applications which work at least on Windows and Linux. Is it possible with Mono? P.S. I know that similar topics already exist (e.g. Cross platform .Net?), but they may...
working with system tray
i create a setup file for my window based project. it is working fine. my requirement is when i minimize the window it should come in system tray not in task bar. help me thank u
How do I calculate amount downloaded by a computer?
I'm currently working on a .NET Cybercafe management program and would like to calculate the amount of data downloaded from the Internet by each computer in the Cybercafe, since users have to pay for their download amount. I believe there has to be some sort of API in Windows to give me this. Wh...
How can i CloseComm, OpenComm, WriteComm and ReadComm with the windows unit?
I have an old comm unit that uses WinTypes,WinProcs. As i understand these were merged too the Windows unit. Are there similar functions in the Windows unit?
setup file for window application
I created a setup file. It is working fine, but I want an image for my setup. When I installed the setup in any system I want some images on my setup. Help me, thank u.
Hudson as service on Windows - file system permissions
For some months we've run Hudson on a Windows XP "server" under a user account. This means someone manually logs in and starts Hudson via a .bat file (that sets up a few environment variables, then runs java -jar hudson.war) However a few recent power cuts have resulted in the requirement to hav...
Reasons for windows service to stop
I have designed a windows service in C#, which runs continiously and spawns three threads. The first thread runs every 15 sec. The second thread runs every min. And the thirs runs only once. My problem is that this windows service somehow just stops after few days.There is nothing logged in the ...
Creating a Windows Forms Control (C++)
trying to run this basic form control example on msdn. At step 1 of the portion "To add a custom property to a control" we place the ClickAnywhere code in the public section of the class. First error: "error C2144: syntax error : 'bool' should be preceded by ';'" Is this syntax correct ...
C++, How to determine if a Windows Process is running?
This is concerning Windows XP processes. I have a process running, let's call it Process1. Process1 creates a new process, Process2, and saves its id. Now, at some point Process1 wants Process2 to do something, so it first needs to make sure that Process2 is still alive and that the user has no...