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hi
i need help in undrstanding the printer spooler.
by the way, i have machine with windows98 OS
connected locally with printer.
is there any software tool that help me
in undrstanding spooler?
and thanks for all
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What do you need to know?
When a Windows program prints, the job is sent to the hard drive in (IIRC) System32\Spool\ where it is saved until the spooler service gets around to it. The service is notified of a job waiting, and the spooler then handles the interaction with the print device driver and the actual printer. This allows the application to continue interacting with the user, while printing is handled in a separate process as CPU time is available. Spooling allows control to return to the user much faster, and helps to prevent such errors as buffer full, or printer out-of-memory states which would crash DOS systems.
Nice tool when it works, but the Win9x implementation was not the greatest. It's much improved since. If you want to play with it, try running a few programs, set the spooler to disabled (in the Printer settings), then try printing a document. Compare to the behavior when spooling is enabled.
Boredom, Bull$^%&, Baggage, Bar - all start with 'B' Coincidence?
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thank you Mr Roger
but is there any software simulation
about the spooler work?
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None that I know of, but I really haven't looked. You might try using Google to search for Print Spooler Simulator or something similar.
Boredom, Bull$^%&, Baggage, Bar - all start with 'B' Coincidence?
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I'm not sure about your question, but i guess you might want to control the printer activities. If you want to know that, try to check the following printing script[^] to gain more idea.
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hi all,
I need to avoid appearing "Log on to Windows" Dialog in windows 2000 Professional,when starting windows..My computer in a Domain..Not in a WorkGroup..
If my Computer in a Workgroup,I can disable entering user name and password to Login to computer.
But I think Domain computer,it can not do...
So please tell me How to avoid appearing "Log on to Windows" Dialog Box when starting windows 2000 Professional.My computer in a Domain..
Thanks in advance.
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You can cause the system to log you on automatically using the Autologon feature in TweakUI[^].
Stability. What an interesting concept. -- Chris Maunder
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hi,
Thanks for reply.However it requires windows server 2003 or windows XP Enviornment.I am using "Windows 2000 Professional"..
So I can not use TweakUI.
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pubududilena wrote: But I think Domain computer,it can not do...
Read this article[^] and try to test the key DefaultDomainName key under HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\WindowsNT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon
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Hi guys
I only was wandering what I have to do to simulate the moon and sun keys in my keyboard if I don't have it.
Is there an equivalence if you don't have these keys in your keyboard?
Doc
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doctorpi wrote:
the moon and sun keys
What kind of keyboard are you used to - Atari?;P
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You have never seen a PC keyboard with a moon an a sun?
What kind of country do you use to live? Nepal?
Moon = Sleep computer
Sun = Wake up computer
My answer is so polite as yours.
I'll not continue answering your "non helping" post.
Doc
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doctorpi wrote:
What kind of country do you use to live? Nepal?
The US, and despite having used keyboards since the ASR33 Teletype was considered state of the art, I've never seen a sun or moon key on any of them. But since you've clarified the meaning of your original post, such functionality is implemented in the keyboard driver software that is installed with the device. You could write a new driver for your keyboard, but it may be possible to write an application to intercept keycodes before Windows processes them and execute your own custom instructions for specific codes. A simple keyboard input scanner will help you to determine which keycodes to look for.
Boredom, Bull$^%&, Baggage, Bar - all start with 'B' Coincidence?
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well I have to say I too was wondering what keys you were talking about. There is no sleep/wake keys on my keyboard - I had one that did (but there was no moon or sun on them) and I got rid of it as fast as I could find another without them - they should be banned. Nearly had a heart attack first time my computer suddenly turned itself off and I had no idea why... I'd accidently hit Sleep. Horrible things.
And if you can't ask clear questions you can't expect the answer you want.
Phil
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I am trying to use the File.Delete(path) command in an ASP.NET application. It works fine on the remote webserver, but here on my development machine (XP Pro with IIS) I get a permissions error....
...the erro page says I can change the file-access permissions via Windows Explorer (right-click/properties/security) but there is no security tab here... I am logged in as the computer administrator.
How can I chagne the permissions associated with the ASPNET machine account? Going the obvious way via control panel doesn't seem to give any options... there is no ASPNET user account as such, except when I look under admin tools / computer management / users - but again, no options to change anything useful, as far as I can see...
any ideas greatly appreaciated
thanks
Phil
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Thanks - my problem is that I can't get this "security" tab to appear! However, I solved things by simply adding a
<identity impersonate="true" />
to web.config - this, I gather, makes the application impersonate my admin user rather than then the built-in aspnet machine user... it works!
ta
Phil
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yes, I know that! But this is only on my development machine - on the webserver proper it runs fine without having to modify web.comfig. Ta, P.
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Hmmm... Does the XP version of IIS install an IUSER account or equivalent? Granting Admin rights to it might help.
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Yes, it does... I guess it would make more sense to impersonate that account rather than the admin one, but security isn't really not an issue on this machine...
...on a slight tangent, I can't help but feel that Microsoft, bless their little cotton socks, are in danger of losing sight of the woods for the trees with regards their OS security - it's so damn complex, so many options and settings and possibilities, that anyone who isn't a real expert (ie an awful lot of us) end up either ignoring it or leaving gaping holes because we haven't configured it right... surely it doesn't have to be so hard to understand? I think there is maybe a case for going back to the drawing board, Bill..
thanks for you reply
Phil
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Phil Uribe wrote:
there is maybe a case for going back to the drawing board, Bill..
I'm in complete agreement with you there!
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Conspiracy, complexity, crap... all begin with "C" - as does Coincidence....
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