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There's really no virus that is known to do this. It's just not damaging enough, I guess. But, where I work, I've replaced about 30 ViewSonic VX900 LCD's in the last 8 months because of problems with the backlight. After about a year, they just started dying, probably because of bad capacitors in the backlight power supply. The backlight would work for anywhere from 1 second to 20 minutes before it died.
Dave Kreskowiak
Microsoft MVP - Visual Basic
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Assuming you're using a CRT (they do not die after a year).
Does the monitor actually turn off or just go black. I heard about a virus that painted the screen black when I was working with Win3.1 - I don't know if it still exists. If you have anti-virus installed (as you should - http://www.free-av.com) then try another monitor.
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AndyM103 wrote: Assuming you're using a CRT (they do not die after a year).
Really? On what planet? I had two of them die inside of a year...
AndyM103 wrote: I heard about a virus that painted the screen black when I was working with Win3.1 - I don't know if it still exists.
It wouldn't even be passed around today. Unless, of course, this person is still using Windows 98 or lower...
And make sure you check which message your Replying to before hitting the "Post message" button...
Dave Kreskowiak
Microsoft MVP - Visual Basic
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Sorry,
Next time I'll just not bother trying to help.
Viruses written for Windows 95 (and compiled in 32bit) can still have an affect on XP FYI.
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AndyM103 wrote: Viruses written for Windows 95 (and compiled in 32bit) can still have an affect on XP FYI.
Yeah, I know. I've been doing this for nearly 30 years now. In your post, you didn't mention anything about Windows 95, you said Windows 3.1.
Viruses that worked under DOS and Windows 3.x normally spread themselves by infecting the boot secotr of floppies and hard drives. They don't work under NT Kernel O/S's because the boot loaders are very different and the permissions required to get low-level access to the media to spread themselves wasn't available to them. Also, those viruses were written in 8 and 16-bit code. Most of which just doesn't work under and NT Kernel anymore...
What FAR more common now-a-days is to spread by email. Even then, just turning off the monitor isn't a juicy enough target today. That's just merely annoying. The current target is turning your entire machine into a zombie that can be remotely controlled.
But, yes, viruses that worked under Windows 3.x and 9x CAN still work, IF they a machenism to spread that is still in use today AND IF the environment that these viruses need to execute is still on your machine, which is far less likely in an XP world.
You can help all you want, just make sure your replying to the correct post. Since you didn't reply to the original poster, he/she did NOT get an email that said you replyed to when he/she posted. The only person that gets an email that you replyed is the person who's post you replyed to.
Dave Kreskowiak
Microsoft MVP - Visual Basic
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Hi
I post this thread in SysAdmin as IIS does not suit the rest of the forums.
I am using IIS 5.1 on WinXp. I have created an Asp.Net website using Visual Studio 2005. Asp.Net 2.0 was used.
I shared the folder containing the website on IIS and it is added to the 'Default Website' folder under the 'Websites' folder in IIS. The folder's name is LiveEventPortal.
When I opened the folder in IIS and tried to broswse the ASP.Net master page (right click -> browse), IE appeared and displayed an error message.
Server Error in '/LiveEventPortal' Application.
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Failed to access IIS metabase.
Description: An unhandled exception occurred during the execution of the current web request. Please review the stack trace for more information about the error and where it originated in the code.
Exception Details: System.Web.Hosting.HostingEnvironmentException: Failed to access IIS metabase.
The process account used to run ASP.NET must have read access to the IIS metabase (e.g. IIS://servername/W3SVC). For information on modifying metabase permissions, please see http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=267904.
What could be the problem and how to enable the master page to display correctly?
I guess that the problem lies with the metabase, although i'm not sure what a metabase is.
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I've never used IIS - so I can only suggest changing servers (http://www.aprelium.com) Abyss X1.2.3.0.5 supports ASP.NET2 and works fine.
Try using PHP instead!
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You could always ask what metrics he has to defend such a claim.
"Let us be thankful for the fools. But for them the rest of us could not succeed." - Mark Twain
"There is no death, only a change of worlds." - Native American Proverb
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... and to complete with David, tell us his answer so that we can know and answer to him...
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Well, if you have an app that is leaking memory (like, a service), you're gonna miss the "tabula rasa" effect of a shutdown.
HDD issues: most certainly not. If a program has a hibernation problem, and the problem's symptoms are many attempts to access different sectors on your HDD, THEN you might actually degrade your hdd. But I beliebe that Windows' use of the swap-file has more serious impact on your HDD-lifespan than any other program will have.
Cheers,
Sebastian
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Contra vim mortem non est medicamen in hortem.
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Hi All,
Is it possible to change the host name or domain name of the system without rebooting it.Thanks in
Advnace.
Rakesh
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Hi guys...
I'm having some problems with installing iis...
I shutdown my computer on friday after working on a new site in VisualStudio (server is localhost). I left it in a fine state, so i thought. Booted my computer on Sunday to do a little more and was unable to start my local host server! I cant think what would have caused this? Its now Tuesday and am still unable to start the server. I have un-installed iis and tried to re-install, unfortunatly i was prompted with multiple msg's (unable to copy certain .dll files) i've tried various fix it cmds like: esentutl /p %windir%\security\database\secedit.sdb
This or any other command i have tried has not worked. Microsoft has lots of info about how to try and resolve this issue but all have been unsuccessful.
Can anyone help me?
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Hi...Thanks for repling.
Below are the last server related reports (as i have un-installed iis)
The Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP) service terminated with the following error:
Not enough resources are available to complete this operation.
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The server could not bind to the transport \Device\NetBT_Tcpip_{D2B9A563-7193-4880-A62F-6376F2F734DA}.
I had a hard drive fail 2 weeks ago, i installed win xp from my disc (SP1) then installed iis and then installed sp2...at the moment i am tring to uninstall sp2 using the recovery console (cmd: $ntservicepackunistall$\spuninst)as i am unable(not visible)to remove it from add/remove programs with show updates check box 'checked'. I thought if i could remove sp2 and try to reinstall iis then install sp2 again!!
What do you think?
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Hi all,
iam working on WMI(windows MAnagement Instrumentation). i have created a sample application using WIn32_process class . iam able to display messages when an Process is opened or closed.
now what i want to do is to create an object and then register a call back function . This class also take process names through another method . this class should call the above callbackfunction when one of the process(taken through the above method) is either started or exited.
can you please suggest me how to procedd with this task.
Thanks in advance
abhi
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I want to retrieve the usage of CPU and Memory of certain process as well as the whole system on Windows 2000 just as the task manager does. I am not sure whether my problem has been solved by others on code project, but after a long search without answer I decide to publish it here. Your direct answer or a useful link will be highly appreciated. Thank you very much.
History became legend. Legend became myth.
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Using .NET2.0 (in VB)
you should be able to type something like My.Computer. etc...
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Hi, can anyone give me a suggess that, can I use Sony Handycam from here[^] to attach with my computer and made it function as a webcam to chat and transfer picture with my friend via msn messenger or yahoo messenger?
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wasnt sure where to ask this...
an old harddrive of mine stopped running the OS, so i got a new harddrive and slaved the old one... i can access most files except the folders in the documents and settings of individual users whose accounts were password protected.
is there any way to retreive the files from those folders?
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juventas wrote: wasnt sure where to ask this...
Welcome, you have posted your question in the right place.
juventas wrote: can access most files except the folders in the documents and settings of individual users whose accounts were password protected
What is the file system of your old hard drive. In my opinion, you might use NTFS permission and you do not have a right to access to those folder.
juventas wrote: is there any way to retreive the files from those folders?
Try to log on your computer with administrator use right and take ownership of the folder that prevent you to access the file.
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My system(ist16) and remote system(ist14) are connected in LAN.
when i type ping ist14 in my system i get replay.
when i type ping ist16 in remote system i didnt get replay.
what is the reason.
can any one help me....?
thanks in advance...!!!!!!!!
JAYARAJ
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