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Thanks
Mazy
"So,so you think you can tell,
Heaven from Hell,
Blue skies from pain,...
How I wish,how I wish you were here."
Wish You Were Here-Pink Floyd-1975
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Hi All,
I have a pretty fundamental question about XP.
First some background though. We have an application that works under 95, 98, Me and NT4. An essential part of it is that during operation it substitutes the normal windows drivers handling the communication ports (COM1,2,3,4 etc...) with another driver (made by Willies Computer Software Company in Texas. When execution finshes it restores the normal windows driver. Under the versions mentioned above that works without a hitch. Under windows 2000 it does not because win2000 does not allow the normal driver to be replaced/suspended. Documentation on win2000 says it does but it certainly does not. As Xp is a further evolution of win2000 neither does XP allow you to do that. Bottom line is we cannot make our application work because we need the WCSC driver becuase that one does perform another task which all normal windows drivers are supposed to be able to do but do not (another flaw in the driver that does not do what is specified).
Question: I have recently been told that when installing "incompatible" (older) software on an XP system you can tell XP it is supposed to treat it as if it were a windows 98 or NT type application. I was told that when running the application it would then work more or less normally. Question is: does anyone know if this applies to the drivers as well ? if so, is it likely to work ?
any help much appreciated,
Filip
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I m developing netbased application which requires
dial-up networking,dial-up adapter,Microsoft Client etc.
on user's computer installed.
So how can i check if user has installed these components
and if it is not there how to install programmatically
from our application?
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coolvcguy wrote:
if it is not there how to install programmatically
from our application?
I'd be extremely vexed with any company that dared to pull such a stunt on one of my machines, and I strongly advise you to make this an option for dummies only!
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No,
These kind of practices are being done by company's like
ISPWIZARD.COM and AOL.
So i m eager how to do these things..?
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coolvcguy wrote:
These kind of practices are being done by company's like
ISPWIZARD.COM and AOL.
These companies will never be permitted to do business with my company. Automated attacks on my network settings, regardless of how benevolently they are intended, will be treated as viruses, and exterminated. The marketplace will take care of the problem; get your resume in order.
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I'm using a layout class, which I think is only partially my problem...But here's waht I;ve got.
I have a program that desires to be proportional regardless of window size. So, I have a layout class that auto-sizes the controls for me. That works great. The problem comes in when I change the font size (to remain proportional) for the CWnds that make up the program's interface. Under 9x, it works fine. I can drag windows over the interface and everything stays intact. When I drag a window over the NT version, all the CWnds are re-drawn in the system's fail-safe font (system, 8pt.)
To nail down this issue, I have the CWnds report to me their font info. Under 9x, they always report the right info. Under NT, they give me garbage for the font name. So then set the font correctly. Now it reports the right fonts, but it still draws them in the system's failsafe font.
Right now I have a thread on a timer to fix this, but it is still sloppy looking between the refresh intervals.
As far as I can tell, the correct font info is set for the CWnd (using WM_SETFONT) but I have no idea why when it's redrawn automatically that it uses the system's fail-safe font.
Can anyone please help me? Has anyone seen this?
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You would not be by any chance creating font on the stack would you?
void SetPropFont()
{
CFont font;
font.Create(xxx,xx,0x,6)
SetFont(&font);
}
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I was... but I fixed that. Now I dereference a pointer to a font that always exists (so I can adjust the CFont at runtime), and it still breaks ;(
This has me most perplexed.
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Hi out there,
I'm working an instrument based on the Windows CE operating system. The applications is now to be translated into Japanese.
I have found a true type font "MS Gothic.ttf" that supports Japanese charactes. That works fine except for titles in dialogs that use the sysytem font.
I don't want to link the font into the OS image but instead load a system font dynamically.
I have tried to modify the registry:
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\GDI\SYSFNT\Nm] from Tahoma to MS Gothic
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\GWE\Menu\BarFnt\Nm] from Tahoma to MS Gothic
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\GWE\Menu\PopFnt\Nm] from Tahoma to MS Gothic
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\GWE\OOMFnt\Nm] from Tahoma to MS Gothic
But it doesn't work.
Any ideas??
Jørgen Belfalas
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How to block access to system menu (WinKey, Control+Esc, eventually Control+Alt+Del)
Emi
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I made some progress, but this code is only for detect Control+Esc
I think SendInput may be a solution. Any ideeas ?
void CMainFrame::OnActivate(UINT nState, CWnd* pWndOther, BOOL bMinimized)
{
CFrameWnd::OnActivate(nState, pWndOther, bMinimized);
if(nState==1)
{
m_nSysEnter=0;
return;
}
BOOL bCtrlDown = (!(GetKeyState(VK_CONTROL)==0));
if(bCtrlDown)
{
m_nSysEnter++;
if(m_nSysEnter > 1) return;
::MessageBox(0,"Use only interface programs.",
"WARNING",MB_ICONWARNING | MB_OK | MB_TOPMOST);
}
}
Emi
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Finally, I found it !!
This code detect and cancel user input: Control+Esc
void CMainFrame::OnActivate(UINT nState, CWnd* pWndOther, BOOL bMinimized)
{
CFrameWnd::OnActivate(nState, pWndOther, bMinimized);
if(nState==1) return;
BOOL bCtrlDown = (!(GetKeyState(VK_CONTROL)==0));
if(bCtrlDown)
{
// Wait for init
Sleep(300);
// Send cancel
keybd_event( VK_ESCAPE,0,0,0 );
keybd_event( VK_ESCAPE,0,KEYEVENTF_KEYUP,0);
// Send task change
keybd_event( VK_MENU,0,0,0 );
keybd_event( VK_ESCAPE,0,0,0 );
keybd_event( VK_ESCAPE,0,KEYEVENTF_KEYUP,0);
keybd_event( VK_MENU,0,KEYEVENTF_KEYUP,0);
}
}
Emi
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Does anybody know how to add/remove the quick links (Desktop,My Computer,My Documents,etc) in the side?
- Matt Newman
-Sonork ID: 100.11179:BestSnowman
†
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Through UI you cna use TweakUI, programetically they are in the registry somwhere but can't remember where.
--
Andrew.
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Thats what I was looking for. Thanks!
- Matt Newman
-Sonork ID: 100.11179:BestSnowman
†
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Hi, I've been given the task of setting up a Win2K Advanced Server for a Web Server. I'm just looking for some tips, scripts or links before I get started.
One script I'm trying to find is one where someone can sign on as a guest and give him/her self a username and password.
Thanks for your time,
~Timothy T. Rymer
tim.xpertz.com
www.digipen.edu
www.ttrx.com
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Can someone smarter than I am explain to me how this service needs to be configured? My server has a fixed IP from my ISP, and it is the top level in my registered domain. The registration is maintained by Register.com. When I installed it, Win2KS established a default configuration in its DNS with my address as the SOA, and appears to be attempting to serve as the DNS authority for the entire subnet I'm on. I'm getting notices three times a week that the event log is full, and they're almost all caused by DNS. Obviously I've got something set wrong, but I can't figure out what it is!
I don't want it controlling the subnet - that belongs to my ISP, and I try to be nice to him. Does anyone here have any experience in setting this up properly? Any clues would be most welcome
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After the few attempts I made at trying to configure the Win 2K DNS server, I gave it up and am now happily using bind that comes with Debian Linux. With bind I dont need to point it to my ISP's DNS. It can resolve domain names directly from the root domains.
With Win2K's DNS it cannot do that or I couldnt get it to do that anyway. You need to give it some other DNS addresses and this will kinda act as a stupid dumb DNS proxy so to speak.
Nish
p.s. Why cant they provide one decent DNS server free?
It's seven o'clock
On the dot
I'm in my drop top
Cruisin' the streets - Oh yeah
I got a real pretty, pretty little thing that's waiting for me
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Thanks for the thoughts, Nish. Considering that one of the wonderful advances that Micro$oft was pushing about Win2K was the death of WINS/ Long live DNS, you'd think they would make it easier to figure out!
I think that what I need to do is configure it as a secondary server with a SOA record pointing to the domain name registrar's DNS server, then add records pointing to my ISP's DNS servers as peers; it would be nice to have some confirmation of that from someone who's done it, though.
I notice that a lot of the errors I'm getting are cryptic references to ladp, kerberos, and such, and the problem is reported to be "server could not interpret format" or some such. No explanations, just noise... the usual.
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Nish [BusterBoy] wrote:
With bind I dont need to point it to my ISP's DNS. It can resolve domain names directly from the root domains.
With Win2K's DNS it cannot do that or I couldnt get it to do that anyway.
It can, I have installed several Win2k DNS servers, and they work perfectly good.
Just install the server with standard options. Then go to the network config, and set the dns server ip address to the ip of the local machine.
Nish [BusterBoy] wrote:
p.s. Why cant they provide one decent DNS server free?
It is a decent dns server, works perfectly
- Anders
Money talks, but all mine ever says is "Goodbye!"
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I believe you will find the answer in researching forward and reverse lookup zones.
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Install the server with standard options. Then go to the network config, and set the dns server ip address to the ip of the local machine.
- Anders
Money talks, but all mine ever says is "Goodbye!"
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just on the off-chance someone knows this, I'm trying to config a Solaris box to lp to a Lexmark Optra 1855 with inbuilt LPD support...
one would usually use the construct :-
server!printer
to get to the LPD (printer could also be 'queue' .. the 'server' is simply the tcp/ip address on the Optra, or a resolvable /etc/hosts entry
on some LPD devices, printer/queue could be 'RAW' or 'TEXT' or 'PASSTHRU' - does anyone know the correct setting for a Lexmark Optra ??
regards, Garth
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