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Thank you. I just added an ip range. gracias!
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It's a Pentium 233Mhz MMX owned by the retired Grandmother of one of the kids in my sons soccer team that I coach. So there's no chance I can just get another printer or buy a better computer/operating system. The printer is an Epson C40UX or C40UX or something like that connected to the computer via a USB cable.
I got a call several weeks ago about tis problem, the printer wouldn't print. I dutifully turned up with a parallel and USB cable in case the existing cable was at fault. I turned on the machine, it printed perfectly I went home.
A couple of days later another call, another problem. It would sometimes print and sometimes wouldn't. I went out again and again all is well.
Problem is there again, or you wouldn't be hearing about this now, would you? This time the daughter (mother of kid from soccer) went for a look and has this to tell me. When you print from programs nothing happens, the jobs appear in the spooler but won't print until you reboot the machine and then they just fly out.
The driver was originally installed by the computer expert son (I think he can spell computer) so it may have been done wrong (I don't know how, I'm grasping at straws here). So think I should uninstall the printer and start from scratch.
Anyone have any idea how to resolve this problem?
Michael Martin
Australia
"I suspect I will be impressed though, I am easy."
- Paul Watson 21/09/2003
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What version of Windows is it running? Sounds like a funny problem. I'm also guessing you checked that the pause printing wasn't checked. Also it might be that there is no hard drive space on the pc, you might want to check that as well.
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Build a man a fire, and he'll be warm for a day. Set a man on fire, and he'll be warm for the rest of his life.
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It's Windows 98SE. Where is the 'Pause printing' option? There is at least a couple of gig to spare HDD wise. Thanks for the response.
Michael Martin
Australia
"I suspect I will be impressed though, I am easy."
- Paul Watson 21/09/2003
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The 'Pause' option appears in the printer applet, under Start/Settings/Printers, when you double-click on the printer. Any time a problem occurs while printing a document, Win98 sets the printer to offline and pauses the print spooler, then leaves it there for all time. This same behavior occurs if the wrong (or just badly-written) driver is installed. It took almost a year for Lexmark to make a proper driver for my printer on Win2K - it exhibited the same problem - though their tech support denied that there was any problem with it from the start. A fixed driver just magically appeared on their website one day. Check the mfr's website for an updated driver first off, and take a copy with you next time you visit.
"Your village called -
They're missing their idiot."
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Hi, Any idea whether Windows CE supports Hooking APIs...? Please clear my doubt.
Thanks in advance.
Regards, Jinoj
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Hi,
XP doesn't reconnect my network drives when I logon (to a domain). The network drives that are not reconnected are drives that are mapped to machines OUTSIDE the domain. XP "remembers" their credentials because I checked the "reconnect at logon" checkbox, but it simply doesn't actually reconnect them.
According to the following article:
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;ko;kr283492
This is by design... but I was wondering if someone knows how to override this and force XP to ask for credentials during logon.
Thanks...
/=/=/=/=
Deus
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huh?
/=/=/=/=
Deus
/=/=/=/=
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Hi, how do I set the environment variable for my JSDK?
I think I accomplished that by executing the following in DOS-command prompt:
set PATH = %PATH%;c:\jdk1.3.1\bin
But I have to do this everytime I invoke javac... I know there's a key in registry that stores all environment variables. I think/remember you can do this somewhere in control panel..? Any idea? Thanks.
norm
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Mmm... right click My Computer, Properties..., Advanced tab, Environment Variables
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When I am running my multi-thread application, I find that there's a process named "devenv" is running very busy too.
Does anyone know what it is?
Thanks in advance.
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Visual Studio
// Steve McLenithan
Family Guy: Season 2 - Episode 8
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Dear All,
I am developing an application for Windows 2000 using VC++ Version 6.0. I need to disable the F8 option so that user may not be able to boot the system in safe mode.
Is there any way out to disable safe mode option, i.e disable F8 key.
Thanks in advance.
Regards,
Rohit Dhamija
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Rohit Divas wrote:
Is there any way out to disable safe mode option, i.e disable F8 key.
God, I hope not! If you manage to disable that I'll have to hunt you down and break both of your knees. I'll leave you with functioning fingers, though, as you'll need them to correct the error of your ways.
Any application that meddles with the safe operation of the OS is trash by definition, and Safe Mode is critical to the reliable operation (and recovery) of the system. I can think of no legitimate reason for breaking it, unless your application is malicious by design.
"Your village called -
They're missing their idiot."
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hi,
Q) :-DSafe Mode is critical to the reliable operation (and recovery) of the system....
Ans) I know this very well, but our s.w required this feature (it's a security s.w) so i wanted to enquire that is there any way out to disable F8 by some means...
Anyways thanks for your reply Roger,
Rohit
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I'm still suspicious of your motives... I have to fix the damned things when they go bad. Invoking safe mode occurs very early in the boot process, right about the time that the BIOS hands off to the bootstrap loader on the MBR. That's going to be hard to catch, and may require replacing an interrupt handler at a very low level; I'm not sure how you might go about that, since you're quite limited in what you can do until the OS actually loads and takes control of the hardware.
"Your village called -
They're missing their idiot."
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No dear ,
i am developing a anti-hacking/security s.w....
I have seen this option in an application provided by
http://www.stormcoast-fortress.net/
but donot know how it works !
Rohit
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Interesting challenge. I know there are programs that intercept keystrokes; you can probably find a few here on CP. But loading such a routine early enough in the boot process to be effective might be tough. Perhaps a Run= entry in the registry, like so many viruses use, would be called for in this case. Have you looked at redirecting the STDIN, CIN and CON devices to your program? DOS used to allow this using the || or > characters in a batch file, but I don't know if modern Windows versions still support this.
"Your village called -
They're missing their idiot."
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What's the point - boot-time security is a hardware problem really. Disabling safemode doesn't help if you can still stick a CD or floppy in and boot from other media.
And no, nothing in usermode executes early enough to catch this. In fact nothing in kernel mode really does either, in the conventional sense. To tinker with this behavior you would have to patch NTLDR or one of the things it calls, NTDETECT.COM or the optional NTBOOTDD.SYS.
*shudder* Real-mode interrupt handling - ick. You were right with your first response, when you told him it was a bad idea.
-Blake
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Blake Coverett wrote:
You were right with your first response, when you told him it was a bad idea.
Shhhhh. I was trying to suggest a solution that might work well enough, while still letting me with my lightning fast fingers get in there and repair the machine before the key is disabled.
"Your village called -
They're missing their idiot."
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Blake Coverett wrote:
stick a CD or floppy
It is fairly easy to disable both of those, either through software or a "hardware lock"
"Committee--a group of men who individually can do nothing but as a group decide that nothing can be done." - Fred Allen
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I didn't say it was difficult, just that it was a hardware problem not a software problem.
And how exactly do you suggest disabling those via software? You can change the BIOS boot options, but they can always be changed back. You can put a password on the BIOS, but it can always be disabled by shorting the appropriate jumper. Physically control of the hardware is the only way to prevent attacks based on booting off external media.
Given physical access to a computer one can always break in.
(The only class of solution that prevents that seriously damages usability and uptime: encryption of the disk at the block level with decryption based on a key provided by a trusted person at boot time, combined with intrusion detection that automatically shuts down the system, loosing that key in the process.)
-Blake
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