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WTF!! Runs on development computer only [WTF!! Runs on development computer only]

David7738 — Sat, 19 Apr 2008 06:33:34 GMT

wrote a console application c++ program using VS2008. It is nothing more than a "Hello World". I copied the .exe to a flash drive and then onto another XP computer. When I try to execute it says "This application has failed to start because the application configuration is incorrect". So then I tried copying it over using MSN and when I execute it now says "Windows cannot access the specified deivce, path or file. You many not have the appropriate permissions to access the item.

I have administrator privledges so I should be able to execute it.

Any ideas?

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Hide Vista Start Button (any suggestions) ??? [Hide Vista Start Button (any suggestions) ???]

David7738 — Thu, 27 Dec 2007 08:31:48 GMT

,I could make startbutton disable with API Enablewindow in vista.
However my client ordered to hide startbutton....
I cannot find answer why Showwindow with SW_HIDE work just making start icon smaller.
this is my code,using listbox to enumerate all top-level windows.

Private Declare Function ShowWindow Lib "user32.dll" (ByVal hWnd As Integer, ByVal nCmdShow As Integer) As Integer
Const SW_HIDE As Integer = 0
Const SW_SHOW As Integer = 5

'Get the process ID of the Explorer process that owns the task bar
target_hwnd1 = FindWindow("Shell_traywnd", "")
Call GetWindowThreadProcessId(target_hwnd1, target_process_id1)

hwnd = FindWindow(vbNullString, sTitle)
Call GetWindowThreadProcessId(hwnd, process_id)

If process_id = target_process_id1 Then
cch = GetWindowTextLength(hwnd)
cch = cch * 2
Temp = New String(Chr(0), cch)
'get the windows caption
Call GetWindowText(hwnd, Temp, Len(Temp))

If InStr(Temp, "start") > 0 And InStr(Temp, "menu") <= 0 Then
If Button1.Text = "Hide" Then
Wint = ShowWindow(hwnd, SW_HIDE)
Button1.Text = "Show"
Else
Wint = ShowWindow(hwnd, SW_SHOW)
Button1.Text = "Hide"
End If
End If
End If

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Stop the Insanity [Stop the Insanity]

David7738 — Wed, 16 May 2007 04:27:14 GMT

This is not a social commentary site, yet increasingly we see personal attacks and social commentary threads. Religion, politics, and social issiues have no place here.

This is a Microsoft site ergo threads or commentary on other operating systems are just noise that have no place here.

Well that's my 2 cents on what I think is of value on this site and why I frequent it.

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Windows Media Player 11 Available [Windows Media Player 11 Available]

David7738 — Sun, 14 May 2006 04:23:04 GMT

Windows Media Player 11 is available on Softpedia before it is available on Microsoft Download sites

http://www.softpedia.com/progDownload/Microsoft-Windows-Media-Player-11-Download-39801.html

Use the RO site as it is a LOT faster. WGA is required

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WEB Forums vs Classic BBS (or the Dark Ages of Forums) [WEB Forums vs Classic BBS (or the Dark Ages of Forums)]

David7738 — Fri, 17 Mar 2006 14:28:40 GMT

First I'll get a rant off my chest: Why are web forums so archaic when compared to a good old Bulletin Board Systems Software?

On my Pcboard Bulletin Board systems we had forums, private areas, gaming areas, etc.

My rant is about returning to a site where you left off and the site knowing about which areas you are interested in, unread messages, and so forth.

For instance when I logon to the site I have no idea of which of the areas have new messages or threaded messages.

The normal answer is that web sites are asynchronous objects while a bulletin board was synchronous.

Similarities: logon (so the user can configure username and the site can save users information. Members can be configured to get special area access while non-members cannot.

host machine (server) maintains records of users selected areas and last read messages pointer.

Major differences: bbs: 1 -1 software/user ratio webserver: 1 to many.

Could not this 1 to many ratio not be offset by using a cookie on the clients macihne and the server recieving this clients token querying its database and retrieving the last read message pointers this way when one logs into a site and is presented with the index.htm the user could be presented with a list of subscribed areas and a notification of the # of new messages/threads in that area?

As it stands today when I log into a website running a forum software I have to try and remember where I was the last time I had logged in. I can't selectively ignore a specific user.. Say for instance, W3BBO (just using you as an example, no slight intended or implied) and I have a beef or IMHO he's an idiot and I want to just ignore that user (both online prescense and messages or threads started by that user) with the bbs software this was included, web based it is not usually a function provided.

Biggest difference was BBS software was text based and the user was generally led through a series of configureable by sysop menu system where web based the option exists for the user to jump around and bypass menus by manually going to a specific url.

Are we held up because of a scaling issue here? My BBS was limited to the # of phone lines and modems I could afford and I maxed out to approx 150 users at a time could be logged in. Each node only needed roughly the speed of a 8mhz PC XT to run the bbs software and handle the client requests but the database machine had to be a lot beefier and have FAST hard drives. If I wanted I could run many virtual clients on my 386/486 machines using desqview (pre Windows era).

Today with much faster machines, connectivity, and other advances in technology I'm finding that as a user we are in the Vic20 dark ages of forum software.

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Re: All your BitLocker are belong to us [Re: All your BitLocker are belong to us]

David7738 — Sat, 04 Mar 2006 14:52:21 GMT

Personally I wish that all private data was encrypted somewhere, somehow.. it could be as simple as just a bit inversion. As long as the method is 'secret' or part of it is 'secret' .. this way when laptops get lost/stolen, or someone cracks into a website that the 'users' data is not compromised. At least once a month I hear about thousands of users data has been compromised in an unencrpyted format.. once this data is out in the wild it could be used years from now.. it isn't that often that your mothers maiden name changes, or your date of birth, location of birth, SIN (SSN for you Yanks) and so forth. I may change bank accounts, change credit cards, but the underlying data wont change.

use a strong login and admin password on your machine and use the efs that is available on windows xp pro to protect things. At least that is a start.

I applaud bitlocker and PGP and any other encryption method to be used by others that store my personal data. Especially if this database *(file)* is very attractive to others since it contains not just my data but the data of many others.

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Microsoft Anti-Spyware rebranded Microsoft Defender [Microsoft Anti-Spyware rebranded Microsoft Defender]

David7738 — Sun, 19 Feb 2006 11:57:48 GMT

As of Feb 17. Microsoft released Beta2 of their antipyware product and renamed it Microsoft Defender (to align the product with the Vista product)..

Large changes in the user interface.

I still can't get remnants of their live product off of my system though.

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