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The list of installed apps which is shown when you use the Add/Remove Programs control panel is stored in the below registry key.
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall
Each subkey in there is an item in the list and has a DisplayName value which is what you see in the Add/Remove control panel.
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You can get all of this through the WMI providers, but this type of information is only going to be available for applications that installed using a setup application (and specifically an MSI based one).
Scott.
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if you just look in the registry key I referred to, you'll get anything which has an uninstall entry in the add/remove programs. doesn't matter whether it uses an msi or not. installers all tend to add to that location for easy uninstall.
granted, an xcopy install won't get detected by this.
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I want to prevent the access to MS-DOS.
How can I do that? I want to program it in vb.net
I am using Microsoft Windows XP SP2
Please answer me...
Help mee
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There's nothing to program. This is done entire through Group Policy in Windows. Frankly, this is a bad idea to block because some applications and installers have dependancies on using a Command Prompt.
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You can still block it from the user in Group Policy, and it will be fine. As long as you allow the system to use it. There are ways of blocking it from normal execution, this allows programs that don't use forms of authentication to still use it.
The best way to accelerate a Macintosh is at 9.8m/sec² - Marcus Dolengo
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Expert Coming wrote: You can still block it from the user in Group Policy, and it will be fine. As long as you allow the system to use it
I know. I also said some applications have dependancy on it. We found out the hard way one day a few years ago. A couple of apps, ever so silently, used a hidden CMD window to do some stuff. Setting this policy for the user broke both apps, giving wierd and misleading error messages. If you looked at TaskManager while the apps were running, every once in a while you'd see CMD.EXE pop up in the list, but no visible window would ever show. Clearing that policy fixed the apps, and I wanted to go beat the people who wrote them. 
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It is not a good idea to block out access to MS-DOS. Like dave said, some installers rely on the command prompt.
"Real programmers just throw a bunch of 1s and 0s at the computer to see what sticks" - Pete O'Hanlon
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Should be a straightforward task but I don't how to do it. I need to launch an executable from an icon, say on the desktop, by clicking on it. Any helpful guidelines?
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Create a shortcut on the desktop and then right-click the shortcut to get the properties. Click the Change Icon button and select the one you want from wherever you'd like - it defaults to the first one stored in the executable's program file.
Judy
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I have a .bat file which I'd like to have run automatically every night.
I tried using Windows "scheduled tasks" and referenced the .bat file. I then tried manually running it to test it. A command window briefly flashes on the screen but the .bat file does not appear to be invoked.
I verified that the .bat file isn't getting called by creating a simple test .bat file which did nothing more than create a file on disk. Sure enough the .bat file isn't getting called. The test .bat file contents are shown below.
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echo hello >> c:\test_log.txt<br />
I also tried referencing cmd.exe /c "c:\test.bat" in the scheduled task and this didn't work either.
The annoying part about all this is that I successfully did this a long time ago and I recall having similar issues and eventually figuring it out If only I could recall what the magic was which made it work.
Any ideas?
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None of the gurus out there know how to do this?
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Have you tried changing the /c argument to /k for the command prompt so that it does not go away, you may be getting an error message and can't see it due to the command prompt window disappearing too quickly.
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Thanks for the tip. That revealed the problem. The issue was that the full path to the .bat file I wanted to launch contained spaces. Despite it being enclosed in double-quotes, this still caused a problem for the scheduled task runner.
Using dir /x to obtain the 8.3 abbreviated name for the directory which contained the space and using that fixed the problem.
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Is there any way we can give application installation permission to Power users in Windows Server 2003?
Thanks.
SG
Cause is effect concealed. Effect is cause revealed.
modified on Thursday, February 14, 2008 10:28 AM
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Does "change user /install" and "change user /execute" work for Power Users?
Not sure about that...
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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while starting system its giving error: minor error in file 38592
and then system going restart state.
can any one help me.
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http://support.microsoft.com/kb/140469[^] documents what 'minor error in file' means.
The fact that it's continually restarting suggests that some other file has become corrupted. It's probably generating a bugcheck (STOP error, blue screen) but is configured to automatically reboot when this occurs, so you're stuck in a reboot cycle.
I'd actually replace this hard disk. Once you have the OS up and running again on a different disk, you can plug the old disk in and see if you can recover the data from it.
If you don't care about the data on it, try running an in-place repair. Read these steps[^] for how to do this.
DoEvents: Generating unexpected recursion since 1991
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You don't need to plug another hard disk in to recover the files on the old one. Come on. You just need a nice linux based live cd. Slax[^] is great for the job and it has a nice and easy gui. And it requires no install whatsoever, it'a a live cd. Check it out Cheers.
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Any body got any idea about how to configure the FTP configurations in Windows XP Embedded operation system?
I tried in Windows XP Professional edition, it works fine for me. But i don't know where to configure them for XP embedded OS.
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Found that the same FTP configuration instructions can be followed for Windows XP Embedded OS also.
-vp
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about this article: http://www.codeproject.com/KB/system/inject2exe.aspx[^]
can i resize the code section of a PE file?
for example: i want to add 100 bytes(fill with 0x90) end of the code section.
i change values of "SizeOfRawData" and "VirtualSize" for Code Section header. and i change values of "PointerToRawData" and "VirtualAddress" for next sections.
but the new PE file don't execute.
Zo.Naderi-Iran
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Do you really think we are going to help you build a noop-sled?
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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