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Michael A. Barnhart wrote:
Does anyone know of what the admin password is for HP's XP home?
NO, but try this[^], I have used it successfully to reset the Administrator password on a Windows 2000 Professional and Windows XP Professional machine with no problems. Set the password to blank, don't try I change the password to another word using this utility as it doesn't seem to work.
You also might want to try this[^] great tool to write the inage to floppy disk.
Michael Martin
Australia
"I suspect I will be impressed though, I am easy."
- Paul Watson 21/09/2003
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Thanks, I am in now. I still think it was stupid but making progress. 
"For as long as I can remember, I have had memories. Colin Mochrie."
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Michael A. Barnhart wrote:
Thanks, I am in now. I still think it was stupid but making progress.
It is stupid, I can't believe that they would lock out the owner of the machine.
Funniest thing is I am currently having to fix a client machine where I haven't been given the Administrator password, it is late and I have to get in. So I had to come back to my original post to you and follow the links I gave you.
Michael Martin
Australia
"I suspect I will be impressed though, I am easy."
- Paul Watson 21/09/2003
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Michael A. Barnhart wrote:
Is this just HP's implementation?
XP Home just leaves the Admin password blank. This would seem just like an OEM to lock the users out of recovering their own systems. I suppose it makes a pretty good tech support revenue a couple years down the road.
Matt Newman
Sonork: 100:11179
"If you're Noah and you're facing the Flood, don't call a lawyer, start building an Ark." - David Cunningham
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Thanks,
It was not blank in this case but Michael's suggestion did clear that up.
Matt Newman wrote:
I suppose it makes a pretty good tech support revenue a couple years down the road.
Or make sure that I will not buy their product(s). Carly F. needs to do a little more on customer attention. 
"For as long as I can remember, I have had memories. Colin Mochrie."
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Hello everybody, i have program contains database and installition on cd when i try to open install file this message appears not valid win32 program even when i try to open the database with program like FoxPro its not working i`ve tried to copy and paste put didn`t work any idea to open this program or even the database files .I think its created in FAT16 so its not working on my win98 FAT32 is this the reason and if I go back to FAT16 it will function thank you
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changed password can not remember can i bypass?or reset it somehow ?
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Which password did you change? BIOS or OS???
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It has been stated as a fact from AMD, that chips with a speed greater than or equal to 300Mhz conflict with Win95 OSR2. Explicitly, the boot process yields the message,
"While Initializing Device IOS: Windows Protection Error. You Need to Restart Windows".
This is the message I recieved after a clean install of 95 with a K6-2 500Mhz processor. I did get 95 to boot by clocking the chip down to 166Mhz. I then tried to install the chip update from AMD's web but recieved a message about a Restriction error. The details of the error are as follows:
<unknown> caused an exception c0000006H in module <unknown> at 0000:bff832f3.
Registers:
EAX=20040000 CS=0137 EIP=bff832f3 EFLGS=00010206
EBX=01047000 SS=013f ESP=827e4c84 EBP=827e4cb4
ECX=81789200 DS=013f ESI=0000100d FS=0da7
EDX=c10d1700 ES=013f EDI=0100d000 GS=0000
Bytes at CS:EIP:
08 0f 6a 00 6a 01 56 68 0d 00 01 00 e8 d0 e0 fe
Stack dump:
20040000 000002bb 00000014 81789064 00000050 00000003 00000000 00000003 00000000 00000000 00000001 817892bc 827e4e00 bff85528 00000014 00000000
The only conclusion this message gives me is that the K6 and K6-2 register and stack architecture don't coincide. How can I get the processor to run at 500Mhz?
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Did you install the AMD patch for 95? What is happening is a timing error in 95 that supported the intel chips. I have run 95 on 300, 450, 550, and 800 AMD K6 and K6-2 chips fine.
"For as long as I can remember, I have had memories. Colin Mochrie."
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Anyone have a clue as to what might be happening here.
We had our intranet site on IIS 5.0 and everything was working smooth. Users could browse to http://intranet. We got a new server with IIS 6 and moved the site there, including setting up the host headers. After updating the DNS to the new server it doesn't work any longer. Navigating to http://intranet produces a "Cannot find server or DNS Error". Navigating to http://intranet/app1 works fine. A ping to intranet get the correct IP returned.
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Since CP is so slow (postings, not transport speed) today I popped over to TechRepublic to answer a few questions. While browsing posts there I found an answer posted by one of the sharper tools that haunt the site. Trying to help a user optimize a dying Win98 PC, he mentioned that there is a problem with memory management in the whole series (which I knew), and that each time the PC is started, the Registry grows a bit, eventually becoming too large for the computer to continue running. I hadn't heard that. Can anyone here confirm that from experience? It might explain why Win9x PCs become so slow after a caouple of years, and improve so much when rebuilt.
"Your village called -
They're missing their idiot."
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Wow! Why isn't that documented somewhere, along with thousands of other great tips that various individuals know? Thanks, Mike!
"Your village called -
They're missing their idiot."
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Michael Dunn wrote:
Ericahist
More erica pics!
Time to add my collection! ![Jig | [Dance]](https://www.codeproject.com/script/Forums/Images/jig.gif)
Michael Dunn wrote:
scanreg /opt
 that's awesome!
The kindest thing you can do for a stupid person, and for the gene pool, is to let him expire of his own dumb choices.
[Roger Wright on stupid people]
We're like private member functions
[John Theal on R&D]
We're figuring out the parent thing as we go though. Kinda like setting up Linux for the first time ya' know...
[Nitron]
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Atlantys wrote:
More erica pics!
I know, I'm behind... I actualy watched the Sept. MSDN show (first time I've done that in ages, the tablet PC stuff was neato-keen) but I haven't gone thru Erica's segments looking for nice stills to post. 
--Mike--
Ericahist | CP SearchBar v2.0.2 | Homepage | RightClick-Encrypt | 1ClickPicGrabber
Actual sign at the laundromat I go to: "No tinting or dying."
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Michael Dunn wrote:
I haven't gone thru Erica's segments looking for nice stills to post.
Chop-chop! time's a-wasting!
She's got to lose the headband though (the few pics, in the bright blue). It just looks.. so 1970s (ie: the dinosaur era) to me (like the mom from "The Wonder Years"). 
The first one and the TechEd2003 ones are my favs.
Michael Dunn wrote:
tablet PC
another item to add to the "want, but will never afford" list.
The kindest thing you can do for a stupid person, and for the gene pool, is to let him expire of his own dumb choices.
[Roger Wright on stupid people]
We're like private member functions
[John Theal on R&D]
We're figuring out the parent thing as we go though. Kinda like setting up Linux for the first time ya' know...
[Nitron]
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Atlantys wrote:
She's got to lose the headband though (the few pics, in the bright blue). It just looks.. so 1970s
I thought she was going for the Carol Brady look, myself. I don't think it would work on anyone else, but I like it on her. 
--Mike--
Ericahist | CP SearchBar v2.0.2 | Homepage | RightClick-Encrypt | 1ClickPicGrabber
There is a saying in statistics that a million monkeys pounding on typewriters would eventually create a work of Shakespeare. Thanks to the Internet, we now know that this is not true.
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Simple question, I hope. I need to write a console app that will return a string, either as a value of modifying a value in the environment (like Path). How can I return a string value that can be used by the next step in a logon script?
Thanks,
Leo T. Smith
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Have a look at the Get/SetEnvironmenVariable(s) in winbase.
Note diff between it and stdlib get/putenv:
<snip>
"The GetEnvironmentVariables function retrieves the environment variables for the current process"
... "getenv and _putenv use the copy of the environment pointed to by the global variable _environ to access the environment. getenv operates only on the data structures accessible to the run-time library and not on the environment "segment" created for the process by the operating system..."
</snip>
So there may be issues - i.e. if you need this var to persist past the curren login. Also, if I read this correctly, you can create new (local env)vars with SetEnvironmentVariable(), but not with putenv().
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Sadly this will not work. SetEnvironmentVariable() changes the environment for the current process, not the parent process. Such changes will be passed to processes that you then launch, but not to 'sibling' processes that will be launched after your process has completed.
Writing to standard output and then having the script read that is your only real option.
--
-Blake (com/bcdev/blake)
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Hmmm - right, my bad.
Ok - I've got it - we write a device driver that can map kernel ram into the user mode address spaces of multiple clients. An IOCLTL to the driver updates all buffers, and presto...
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You can do it all from user mode if you are careful:
#pragma comment(lib, "ntdll.lib")
typedef struct _PROCESS_PARAMETERS
{
ULONG AllocationSize;
ULONG ActualSize;
ULONG Flags;
ULONG Unknown1;
UNICODE_STRING Unknown2;
HANDLE InputHandle;
HANDLE OutputHandle;
HANDLE ErrorHandle;
UNICODE_STRING CurrentDirectory;
HANDLE CurrentDirectoryHandle;
UNICODE_STRING SearchPaths;
UNICODE_STRING ApplicationName;
UNICODE_STRING CommandLine;
PVOID EnvironmentBlock;
ULONG Unknown[9];
UNICODE_STRING Unknown3;
UNICODE_STRING Unknown4;
UNICODE_STRING Unknown5;
UNICODE_STRING Unknown6;
} PROCESS_PARAMETERS, *PPROCESS_PARAMETERS;
typedef struct _PEB
{
ULONG AllocationSize;
ULONG Unknown1;
HINSTANCE ProcessHinstance;
PVOID ListDlls;
PPROCESS_PARAMETERS ProcessParameters;
ULONG Unknown2;
HANDLE Heap;
} PEB, *PPEB;
typedef struct _PROCESS_BASIC_INFORMATION {
DWORD ExitStatus;
PPEB PebBaseAddress;
ULONG_PTR AffinityMask;
LONG BasePriority;
ULONG_PTR UniqueProcessId;
ULONG_PTR InheritedFromUniqueProcessId;
} PROCESS_BASIC_INFORMATION;
extern "C" __declspec(dllimport) DWORD __stdcall
NtQuerySystemInformation(
SYSTEMINFOCLASS SystemInformationClass,
PVOID SystemInformation,
ULONG SystemInformationLength,
PULONG ReturnLength
);
extern "C" __declspec(dllimport) DWORD __stdcall
NtQueryInformationProcess(
HANDLE ProcessHandle,
PROCESSINFOCLASS ProcessInformationClass,
PVOID ProcessInformation,
ULONG ProcessInformationLength,
PULONG ReturnLength
);
Combine the above with your typical CreateRemoteThread/etc injection hacks and bash on your parent's environment happily. Not exactly documented or anything, but hey.
(The hacked together definitions above are leftovers from a round of frustration some years ago when I concluded the only documented way to get your parent's process ID was via the abomination that is WMI. That InheritedFromUniqueProcessId member above is the parent process ID.)
--
-Blake (com/bcdev/blake)
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This could be the start of an interesting kerna/el mode thread...
I'd also like to invent a PsSetJustDumpedThisModuleNotify() hack.
And what is a Lego anyway?
But...
Leo - if you're still with us... could you post a couple more details on how your procs interact - IPC doesn't have to be this scary. Really!
right - weekend looms - excuse me if I'm scarce...
Luckily, this is the OSSA forum, which has nothing to do with the increasingly ubiquitous desire to obtain a limited edition Bobble Head Bob, and our thread won't scroll off into the COMpost heap for a few days :P
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This is going to sound insane, I know 
Get your console app to write a batch file which contains only a SET statement. From the logon script, run the batch file that the console app just wrote (using CALL). Your environment should now contain the value of the string.
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