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ghost key strokes (windows)

13-Feb-06 5:29

In my opinion, this error might occure because your server process on the file which locate in a low disk space. Because your printer is the print server, it might handle a lot of job in order to print for the client. As we know that document that is wait to print is store in the printer spooler which locate under printer spool folder: C:\WINDOWS\System32\spool\PRINTERS. If the system disk become full or nearly full, the printing process might be slow. If you have a fix sufficient disk space, you should change the location of spool folder. Try to change to d:\Print\Spool\Printers. Hope this would help you to solve the problem.

Re: Crash dump analysis

eric_haiara13-Feb-06 12:10

eric_haiara

13-Feb-06 12:10

Thanks for the reply. My C:\ drive has a lot of disk space(20GB) free.

Eric

Myhope

vbms19-Dec-05 12:10

vbms

19-Dec-05 12:10

any sugestions on how i could make windows think a key has been pressed so that it writes the value into another window for example text editor or as brute force mthod? im just writing my first brute force app, possibly setKeyState() dono if that would work, any ideas, must sleep nite nite! Sleepy | :zzz:

vbms

Bluetooth mobile phone

Mekong River19-Dec-05 4:33

19-Dec-05 4:33

Hi, I want to know that the bluetooth headset and microphone [^] could be ablet to use it with a PC and chat with other people in yahoo messenger or msn messenger?

-- modified at 20:13 Monday 19th December, 2005

Indivara23-Dec-05 5:41

Indivara

23-Dec-05 5:41

the manufacturer says it can be done...

link[^]

scroll down & click "How to Use Your Bluetooth Headset on a PC with Yahoo Instant Messenger"

Mekong River23-Dec-05 15:53

23-Dec-05 15:53

Thank you very much for your suppport. An information the hyperlink is very usefull for me to use this device Smile | :)

Mekong River25-Dec-05 5:57

25-Dec-05 5:57

Hi, I just found another one which is using with xbox: http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B00069GD0Q/qid=1135529684/sr=8-1/ref=pd_bbs_1/002-9085199-3384032?v=glance&s=videogames&n=507846[^]. Do you think this device could be able to use with yahoo messenger?

Indivara26-Dec-05 4:38

Indivara

26-Dec-05 4:38

this is also by the same manufacturer (Logitech), isn't it? So I suppose this should work too
(try to find it on their web site)

Mekong River26-Dec-05 4:59

26-Dec-05 4:59

Thank you very much for your comment. I also try to find some information relate to this product about using with yahoo messenger too but I could not found it. Other wise i will try all of my best search for it now.

Run programs at shutdown

JimmyRopes17-Dec-05 16:57

17-Dec-05 16:57

I recently found myself in a predicament where my machine, running WinXP SP2, froze during a compile. Not an altogether unique event. I did what I usually do in situations like this; I took a long overdue coffee break hoping that things would work out by the time I returned. After returning 20 minutes later found that the probability of the compile ever completing on its own was approaching zero so I did what I am loath to do; I pressed the reset button. What distinguished this occasion from numerous other similar experiences is that this time when Windows tried to start it informed me that the disk appeared damaged and that I should run chkdsk /f to try to correct the problem.

Fair enough, I did interrupt the operating system midstream and had probably caused corruption which hopefully chkdsk could resolve. Then I became aware of my dilemma, how can I run chkdsk when the operating system will not run. Not to worry, I can take a disk from another machine, boot and execute chkdsk /f on the corrupt disk. To test the theory I installed, actually just put the disk on a bench next to the machine and connected the cables to it, the other disk with operating system installed on it. The machine booted and my hopes were buoyed until I shutdown and connected the corrupt disk as a slave drive. When I tried to boot again I ended up with the “blue screen of death” again recommending that a disk (it didn’t specify which) was corrupt and instructing me to run chkdsk /f to try to recover.

Does anyone know how I can approach this problem?

Is there anything I could have done differently, with the exception of taking a longer coffee break?

Looking to the future I would like to set up a second disk on my development machine and, as part of the shutdown process, backup whatever I have modified to the other disk. That way I will only loose the current session’s modifications if something like this happens again.

I know that if I put an entry in HKLM/Microsoft/Windows/CurrentVersion/Run the application will run when the user logs on. Is there any registry entry I can make to run a utility when I shutdown the machine?

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JimmyRopes

Dave Kreskowiak17-Dec-05 17:31

Dave Kreskowiak

17-Dec-05 17:31

You can run apps BEFORE you pick Shutdown. There is no registry key for this though. DURING a shutdown, Windows won't start a new application.

Before you start swapping hard drivers around, I would suggest starting the machine on the Windows XP setup disk and running the Recovery Console. You can run CHKDSK from there.

RageInTheMachine9532
"...a pungent, ghastly, stinky piece of cheese!" -- The Roaming Gnome

JimmyRopes17-Dec-05 19:32

17-Dec-05 19:32

Unfortunately, there is no floppy drive on that machine, nor a lot of my lab machines, so there is no recovery diskette to insert when promped to do so.

Can I make up a recovery diskette on another machine, plug in a diskette drive and then run the recovery console to run chkdsk using the diskette generated from the other machine, since I won't be actually recovering from it?

I'm on-line therefore I am.

JimmyRopes

Dave Kreskowiak18-Dec-05 7:06

Dave Kreskowiak

18-Dec-05 7:06

All you need is to create the Setup floppies. And that'll work. You don't need to create an Emergency Repair Disk, as it used to be called.

But, you can also do the same thing by booting from the XP installation CD.

RageInTheMachine9532
"...a pungent, ghastly, stinky piece of cheese!" -- The Roaming Gnome

JimmyRopes18-Dec-05 9:27

18-Dec-05 9:27

Thanks, I'll try the floppies in the morning.

I must be missing something about how to use the installation CD. When I tried it started to load the files, but I don't know where since the disk is bad, and then proceeded to start windows when it choaked and I got the "blue screen" telling me to run chkdsk.

As far as I know there are only two chances to interrupt the processing from when it asks "do you want to boot from the CD".

F6 to load SCSI or IDE drivers.

F2 to go into the restore which asks to mount the floppy.

It never completed the startup of windows so there doesn't seem to be a place to run the chkdsk before it tries to start windows.

Anyway, I think the floppies will work. My wife's machine has WinXP and a floppy drive so I can make them there and then I will have something to mount when going to the automated recovery [F2 near the start of the process]

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JimmyRopes

Mekong River19-Dec-05 14:19

19-Dec-05 14:19

Did you try to logon to safe mode?

JimmyRopes19-Dec-05 17:50

19-Dec-05 17:50

Yes, I tried safe mode and safemode with command prompt, as well as boot to the last known good configuration.

All of these produce the "blue screen" saying to run chkdsk.

I'm on-line therefore I am.

JimmyRopes

Mekong River19-Dec-05 22:29

19-Dec-05 22:29

Yesterday, i also have an experience with the blue screen error. It said that the there is insufficient disk space. So I try to start up as safe mode and clean my disk space. Then when i restart as normal it is working fine.

So in case of your problem, i think there are two solution that might fix it:

1. Try to locate the file dump memory and send it to Microsoft. The file dump memory record an information that has error in your computer and wait for the solution from Microsoft expert. The dump memory could be locate from %SystemRoot%\MEMORY.DMP.

2. Try to create a windows boot able disk by using Bart PD[^]. I also use this method to rescue my personal file when windows become unstable and could not start in a normal/safe mode. But i never run chkdsk command from it. Try to discover it for more detail.

JimmyRopes20-Dec-05 4:36

Wireless router usually interrupted it signal

20-Dec-05 4:36

Thanks for the link to Bart PD. I have been looking for a CD distribution like this. I don't even have a floppy drive mounted on the machine so a CD like that will be very handy.

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JimmyRopes

Mekong River17-Dec-05 0:25

Re: Wireless router usually interrupted it signal

17-Dec-05 0:25

Hi, I have pruchase D-LINK wirless router DI-624+[^]. The problem that i face is the signal always disconnect after i used an internet around 10 minute. That really make me annouys. I have check this product FAQ[^] and found one point that i think match to my problem is:

5. Keep your product away (at least 3-6 feet) from electrical devices that generate RF noise, like microwaves, Monitors, electric motors, UPS units, etc.

My router place around 0.5 meter from the computer which have the moniture. But this PC usually turn off. So is this problem came from the monitore that turn off or by other mistake. Please give me some advice because i need to access an internet stability with my wireless networking.

Dave Kreskowiak17-Dec-05 17:27

Dave Kreskowiak

17-Dec-05 17:27

Could this be because of your ISP? I was on SBC DSL for about 6 months. Couldn't keep a connection going for more than 5 minutes before it tries to reconnect. Went back to a Comcast cablemodem...

RageInTheMachine9532
"...a pungent, ghastly, stinky piece of cheese!" -- The Roaming Gnome

Re: Wireless router usually interrupted it signal

Mekong River19-Dec-05 14:28

Re: Wireless router usually interrupted it signal

19-Dec-05 14:28

Dave Kreskowiak wrote:
Could this be because of your ISP?

No it could not. Because this router also has 4 port to share to a PC wich use RJ-45 connection. I already test it, while the connection of wireless disconnect the connection on RJ-45 port is working well at the same time. I will try move my router to far away from the monitor whether the monitor is turn off.

Thank you very much for your comment.

Mekong River13-Feb-06 5:37