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I've got an XP Home desktop and a Vista laptop connected via wireless router. They are both printing (the printer is also connected to the router) and accessing the Internet just fine. The problem, however, is that they cannot connect to each other. They both can ping the other. I've got File & Printer sharing enabled on both, as well as added to Windows Firewall's exception list. Both machine belong to the same workgroup. I've created a matching user/password on both machines. When I go to map a drive letter from one to the other, I supply the correct logon credentials, but consistently get the same error message.
For what its worth, I did these same things when connecting an XP Home and an XP Pro computer and it worked. The only difference that I can see is Vista.
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I was able to get a connection created where the Vista laptop could read files on the XP Home desktop. Since I ultimately want to changes files too, I need the share on the desktop to be "writeable," which is apparently not possible with XP Home (disabling simple sharing is not possible on XP Home). I'm going to upgrade it to XP Pro so solve that minor glitch.
I'd also like to be able to connect to the Vista laptop from the XP desktop, but was told that would be even more difficult.
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Thanks,
DC
"Normal is getting dressed in clothes that you buy for work and driving through traffic in a car that you are still paying for, in order to get to the job you need to pay for the clothes and the car and the house you leave vacant all day so you can afford to live in it." - Ellen Goodman
"To have a respect for ourselves guides our morals; to have deference for others governs our manners." - Laurence Sterne
modified on Thursday, January 24, 2008 9:27:48 AM
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Yes, LLTD was installed on the XP machine. That allowed the XP machine to show up on Vista's network map, but had no effect on its ability to connect.
"Normal is getting dressed in clothes that you buy for work and driving through traffic in a car that you are still paying for, in order to get to the job you need to pay for the clothes and the car and the house you leave vacant all day so you can afford to live in it." - Ellen Goodman
"To have a respect for ourselves guides our morals; to have deference for others governs our manners." - Laurence Sterne
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And I presume it doesn't matter if you use the IP address in place of the computer name?
As the steps to take to enable File & Printer sharing are different in Vista than WinXP, may I presume that all is OK there?
modified 1-Aug-19 21:02pm.
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Richard A. Abbott wrote: And I presume it doesn't matter if you use the IP address in place of the computer name?
In trying to determine if it was a DNS issue, I did indeed use the IP addresses.
Richard A. Abbott wrote: As the steps to take to enable File & Printer sharing are different in Vista than WinXP, may I presume that all is OK there?
I can only assume so since that item was installed on both LAN connections, as well as in the firewall's exception list.
"Normal is getting dressed in clothes that you buy for work and driving through traffic in a car that you are still paying for, in order to get to the job you need to pay for the clothes and the car and the house you leave vacant all day so you can afford to live in it." - Ellen Goodman
"To have a respect for ourselves guides our morals; to have deference for others governs our manners." - Laurence Sterne
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hi every one
i want create a windows driver in winDDK Compiler,
can be used API in Driver?
plz help me
thank
modified on Monday, January 21, 2008 1:16:36 AM
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Yes, you can use your own API.
*snicker*
Cheers,
Sebastian
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"If it was two men, the non-driver would have challenged the driver to simply crash through the gates. The macho image thing, you know." - Marc Clifton
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samira forooghi wrote: API
The Win32 API? In a word, no
Judy
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HI All,
I want windows to execute my program's exe automatically when it is shutting down. How we can do this ? This is same like putting your exe in startup folder so that windows execute it when it is starting up but what about shutdown. Please let me know if anybody has done this before.
Thanks in advance
v
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I have not done this before, but it is possible by editing the group policy.
Open up gpedit.msc (from run or alike) then go Computer Configuration -> Windows Settings -> Scripts (Startup/Shutdown) -> Shutdown
Im not sure how easy/hard it would be to do this via c++ though...
(note that that you can choose to run at logoff, or shutdown, two different times...)
More info at [^]
//Johannes
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Thanks alot.
I will try this and let you the result.
v
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It worked.
I appreciate your help.
v
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Cool  ,
Just out of curiosity, can I ask what your program does?
//Johannes
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I am having my laptop I wanted to log its startup time and shutdown time in a text file so that i can see whether my laptop was used when I was not at home. 
thanks
v
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There is another way you can do that, i'm quite sure windows has it, but i cant remember what its called, you can like make it log things for differnt accounts. But your own program is probably allready better.
If you end up not wanting people to use it at all then just specify a power on and bios password, and protect all windows accounts with passwords
//Johannes
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Yes you are right.
But I enjoyed making this small program
and also I want to catch my brother as he is saying that he does not uses my laptop and works on his own desktop. Lets see
v
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Haha yea, stuff like that is fun make it like do weird stuff to, so he thinks he broke it, like play with Beep() or SetPixel()
//Johannes
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Thats great.
Thanks for the idea. 
v
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So if your program finds activity on your laptop when you are not around, how will you know for certain it belongs to your brother? The evidence would seem circumstantial.
"Normal is getting dressed in clothes that you buy for work and driving through traffic in a car that you are still paying for, in order to get to the job you need to pay for the clothes and the car and the house you leave vacant all day so you can afford to live in it." - Ellen Goodman
"To have a respect for ourselves guides our morals; to have deference for others governs our manners." - Laurence Sterne
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I have a fresh installed xp in my pc connected to a network.. and i forgott to disconnect it from the network while under installation process.. a trojan horse virus has infected me first before i've installed the norton 2007 systemworks w/ anti-virus.. that's why i intend to full scan the system for me get rid of it that virus.. and it was resolve and the virus was remove completely..
but the problem is??
the virus has change my xp system registry making it possible to create a Windows System Folders from my dirve C: like ProgramFiles and MyDocuments and DocumentSettings to be duplicated in the same location... and everytime i've created a new folder inside my drive C:? it always duplicated and once i've delete the new folder i've created? only one of the duplicate is erase and i cant erase the other because windows prompt me like this:
"Can not delete file: Can not read from the source file or disk" "click OK"
and when i intend to create a folder with the same foldername "PROGRAM FILES"?? then WINDOWS is restricting me to create a folder which already exitsing with the same name, and also the same with other folder besides from system folder inside drive C:\??
i know that creating folder with the same foldername in the same directory or location is restricted... but the troublesome is how's that happen that even i restarted xp i always see the duplicated folder of PROGRAM FILES and others system folder and also the new folder i've lately created.. even if run xp in safe mode or either command prompt safemode.. still i see those bunch of duplicated folders and i observe that those duplicated folder name is just something shortcut to the original folder... but even shortcut has different foldername or filename and they just the same on the target isn't it?? correct me if im wrong...
im not good in XP OS trouble shooting specially when it comes registry editing but as of my openion theres something registry related here needs to be fix... correct me im wrong...
Please anybody have an idea to deal with this problem and fix this annoyance..??
please???
thank you so much in advance to anybody's concerned...
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Hello all,
I have a multi-core PC. How do I use both cores at the same time ?
Is it sufficient to start a second thread ?
Using Visual C++
Are two window procedures executed on different processors ? I guess not : I assume that as long as there is only one thread in an application, it runs the Window procedures sequentialy.
Thanks in advance for your help
Jean-Marie
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Hi,
the operating system will look at all threads from all processes; any thread that
is not blocked (waiting on I/O completion, on timer timeout, ...) is "ready" and
a candidate for execution. These get ordered by priority, and the highest N are
selected to become the "current threads" on hardware capable of running N threads
concurrently (as in an n-way multi-core).
Each Control needs to be handled by the thread that created that Control, and normally
Controls are linked tohgether on Forms and the like, so typically they all get
serviced by a single thread, the GUI thread.
An app with only one thread will benefit from a multi-core only by the fact that
the remaining Windows activities can be executed by the other parts of the multi-core
(remember those dozens of processes and threads outside your app!).
To really take advantage of a multi-core you must either have several heavy-duty apps,
or have an app with several well-organized threads (so two or more threads
are likely to be "ready" at the same time).
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- before you ask a question here, search CodeProject, then Google;
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Hi!
I have been googling since yday, and even tried using all combinations, but had to ping you experts for some serious help!
How to I set properties for COM port using DOS in Win XP?!
No it may sound simple enough to use the mode com1:4800,n,8,1 and whoala! but nope i need to change the extended props like Timeout, XON/XOFF, CTS handshaking, DSR handshaking etc.
I tried mode com1: 4800,n,8,1,on,off,on,on,off,on,on but DOS duzn like the command and says "BAD COMMAND"!!!
Pls help its freaking me out!!!! I would really appreciate ur help!
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Vision is the ability to see the invisible
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There are no options for this. All of this is controlled by the application opening the port for communication. There settings you see merely set defaults that each application can either use or ignore and set their own when they open the port. Just about all applications just ignore what you set in the Device Manager or using MODE.
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Well, what properties are set using an application are reset to the defaults when the system is rebooted. However the mode command in DOS helps set the properties for the COM port and written straight to the registry.
I found out the way to change these settings, althought the change was trivial!
mode com1: baud=4800 parity=n data=8 stop=1 to=ON xon=OFF odsr=ON octs=OFF
and the properties are changed for com1!!
Thanks for the help!
Cheers!
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Vision is the ability to see the invisible
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