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Here you can find a nice tool for exploring your disks fragmentation
http://www.sysinternals.com/ntw2k/info/defrag.shtml
with source code.

How can I get the process path by using API "NtQuerySystemInformation".

Why?

I just installed Sygate Pro 5.0 and it immediately announced that ntoskrnl.exe is trying to connect to the Internet. It's only one of several processes making the attempt, but I can't imagine why the kernel needs access every minute or two to somewhere on the 'net. Does anyone know what it's doing?

"Please don't put cigarette butts in the urinal. It makes them soggy and hard to light" - Sign in a Bullhead City, AZ Restroom

It may just be a normal network broadcast, the pc is 'announcing itself' to the network, maybe...

Does Sygate report the local port and the remote ip and port ?

Clones are people two.

It seems to be just the normal NetBIOS announcements. I expected that to be in a separate service, but ntoskrnl is the source reported. It would be so nice to have a reference to the functions that all these various processes in Windows perform, and why they're needed...

"Please don't put cigarette butts in the urinal. It makes them soggy and hard to light" - Sign in a Bullhead City, AZ Restroom

I regularly use perfmon.exe as one of my debugging tools. Out of nowhere, 2 major counter object categories, Memory and Processor, disappeared from the selection drop-down box. The registry troubleshooting info at MSDN is kind of off, as it relates to Win 2K, not XP. Anybody know how to re-init perfmon or make it sane again?

Does anyone have information about the user rights required to install browser plugins?

I have some "restricted users" on my Win2K machine that can't install the Flash plugin. It was already installed by an admin user, but the restricted user still got the error message saying that it had not been installed.
Is this expected? Where are plugins saved on disk?

Thanks,
Richard

Hello,

Application
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I've created a multi-tier application. Its architecture is:
On client machine --> the client application is an ActiveX EXE component (VBasic).
On server machine --> some COM+ server applications and a SQLServer database.

Use Case
--------
CLIENT1
--> asks SQLServer database for an object (= a row in objects table).
The state of this object is stored in a storage file.
--> if the object can be check out, it means nobody else have checked out the object,
the server will set the objects.checkedoutby = ClientID and will copy the stg file
in a shared folder on server machine.
CLIENT2
--> tries to check out the same object
--> the server must know (??? - MY QUESTION IS ABOUT THIS POINT) if the CLIENT1 application
is still running or a crash has occured and CLIENT1 was not able to check in the object.

Remarks
-------
1) CLIENT2 will receive a copy of the storage file if CLIENT1 is still running
2) CLIENT2 will have the possibility to restore the storage file from
an older version if a crash occured in the CLIENT1 application.
3) Many clients can log in using the same account (user name and password)
4) There can be more than one instances of the application on the same client machine

My solution
-----------
My solution is to create an instance of an "watchdog" ActiveX EXE on the client machine
when the client application is started. This "watchdog", from time to time (5 minutes by example),
will modify the value of a date field named NotificationDate in database.
When the client application shuts down, the "watchdog" will stop updating that field.
The stored procedure responsible for check out will use the value of NotificationDate field
to decide whether the CLIENT1 application that use this object is still running or a crash has occured.

Questions
---------
1) Is there a pattern for this problem?
2) What about my solution?

10x,
Ovidiu

I would like to make a hint windows in the explorer like this http://www.mediaarea.net/example.png

So :
- How to make Explorer.exe request for my code
- How code the display of the hint window?

Thanks!

What about posting in the right forum ?

My question is about Explorer, so Operating system forum seems to be the right place for me : Explorer is a composant of Windows, this is a mean for interacte with OS

I would be a lot more instructive if you have indicate which is the good forum, thanks.

Are you wanting to know how to make Explorer show a preview of a .png file when it is selected in Explorer?

S. Rod. , don't laugh at him!

"Do unto others as you would have them do unto you." - Jesus

"An eye for an eye only makes the whole world blind." - Mahatma Gandhi

I would like to put my own code.

ie : your mouse is over a file, and the code I want is executed.
I saw with dbpoweramp there is a lot of links in Registry, if someone know how theses registry keys are formed...

Hi,

Where do you want the mouseOver Tricks to display. If it is going to be hosted within IE or a WebPage (ActiveDesktop), then you can try the OverLib JavaScript. OverLib JavaScript is available from:

http://www.bosrup.com/web/overlib/[^]

Deepak Kumar Vasudevan
http://deepak.portland.co.uk/

So here's the problem:

I have a custom GINA that I'm working on that (for now) simple replaces the logon UI and logons on as a specific user. My Dialogs appear and I can logon, but my desktop is all screwy. The background image appears and some icons show up but the taskbar, startmenu only show up as outlines. Everything appears to be in it's appropriate place, as I can click where Run should be on the start menu and type cmd and the command window will appear but things like explorer will only show some icons and maybe a border (if I'm lucky).

Any suggestions would be helpful.

-Dave W.

I install Visual Studio.NET to win 2000 server. But normal users can not debug
in VS.NET. And there is no debug user type in user types. so only administaror group member could debug in VS.NET. I do not want to install Active Directory only for this and also do not want to give admin rights to users. What could I do.

karanba

hi
Go to Framwork folder of yr computer and add the username/password of the user which you want to use for debugging in the processmodel section of machine.config file.

Vishal Sharma

Vishal S.

Hi,
I make a logon and logoff script for local users on a windows 2000 server(nfts file format) and locate them to work on logon and logoff. They are two batch files.

logon.bat
---------------
subst z: %USERPROFILE%

logoff.bat
--------------
subst z: /d

when standard users logoff there occurs an error says
<i>permission denied.</i>
how could I give this permision

karanba

I have a question about setting up a WINS server. I have created a Windows 2000 AD domain and was using a LMHOSTS file so the pcs on my network would easily find the domain controller. I have a mix of NT 4, Win2k Pro and XP Pro boxes. Anyways I decided to set up a wins server to make it easier to manage. The problem is that I replaced the company primary wins server with my wins server and now the pcs cannot see the other domains from the company wins server. I know there is a push / pull feature but my server does not have the permissions to connect to the company wins server in this way. I also know they would not give me that permission. Is there any way around this?

John

I was 'analyzing' the computers at the tax service where I'm working and noticed an oddity that I've encountered before. There are 6 PCs networked in a Peer-to-Peer configuration, and I've verified that all are in the same workgroup. According to MS documentation, opening the Computers Near Me window is supposed to display all the connected computers in the same workgroup as the local host. It doesn't - after a long delay the window finally displays a blank window - and thinking back to other networks I've used, it never has. Opening the Entire Network and selecting Microsoft Network properly displays them all, and the network functions perfectly. These are all Win2K machines and, as I mentioned, everything works as it should except this function. Can anyone explain this odd behavior?

"Please don't put cigarette butts in the urinal. It makes them soggy and hard to light" - Sign in a Bullhead City, AZ Restroom

Hi,

I'd like to test my programs using a network throttler that will simulate my 100Mbps Ethernet as a 56K modem, or so.

Is there some program I can install?

Thanks,
Arun

Hi Everbody,
I have got 3 OS in my PC(XP,2000, 98). I want to put a bmp file to the background of the boot selection section, and when 98 starts it fisrt to start a screen saver. How could I do this?
thanx

karanba

I guess... u want something like what linux shows when it starts.. Blush | :O

If thats the case.... you will have to put your code into the bootstrap.... Mad | :mad:

I am sorry.. i dunno how to do it.. Confused | :confused:

I was born intelligent
Education ruined me!.

I've created an app in MFC that is dialog based, and I call functions such as GetIfTable to retrieve data and display it using SetDlgItemText to pop it into an editbox.

However, when I call GetIpNetTable to get a table of Address Resolution Table rows, I immediately lose my m_hWnd member. I've not had this problem with the other functions, just this one.

Has anyone come across this problem before? I've looked on google but can't find anything. I've tried creating a dummy HWND and assigning it the value of m_hWnd and then reassigning after calling the function but all I get is an access violation message.

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