Hardware & Devices

2-Jan-09 1:10

I m using Windows XP Sp2.
After turn on XP in between 10 to 15 min my XP Hanging.
In that Time Can't Open the Taskmanager (Using Shortcut Key Or normal)
And when i press windows key it is opening.
mouse movement is working but clicking operation not working.

Working:
Usually I m working in VB.NET & VB and Internet in this time it is hanging.
Anti Virus is Norton it is not showing any problem.

Thanks in advance.

dadashri2-Jan-09 1:47

dadashri

2-Jan-09 1:47

using Symantec AntiVirus
pranav

Nanda_MR2-Jan-09 17:31

2-Jan-09 17:31

Norton and Symantec are same na.

#realJSOP2-Jan-09 2:54

#realJSOP

2-Jan-09 2:54

If there was no reason to hang, then it wouldn't.

XP has an aversion to VB "development. That's why Microsoft released Vista - it's much more tolerant of VB.

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Nanda_MR2-Jan-09 17:33

2-Jan-09 17:33

But some time I m using Internet then also same hanging problem
and when system in idle status same problem so wt i do know.

Cosmic Egg5-Jan-09 9:02

Cosmic Egg

5-Jan-09 9:02

I think you need to take backup of all files and reinstall your OS.
Or clean your system. Remove unwanted application etc

check this link http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/using/setup/expert/northrup_restoreperf.mspx[^]

Nanda_MR5-Jan-09 17:24

5-Jan-09 17:24

I done but hanging percent is reduced but still problem is there. and also my anti-virus also changed and I checked.

Smart card reader and terminal server 2000

Jörgen Andersson6-Jan-09 21:53

Jörgen Andersson

6-Jan-09 21:53

My guess is that you have a program installed that runs some kind of check (probably on the interwebs) a while after the computer is started. If this is badly programmed you might get a lockup.
If this is the case, one solution is to uninstall all unnecessary programs one by one until the problem disappears.

Processexplorer and Autoruns are two great programs from Sysinternals that might be of great use when you're troubleshooting this kind of problems.

Tom Deketelaere29-Dec-08 22:43

Tom Deketelaere

29-Dec-08 22:43

I'm trying to get a smart card reader to work on terminal server 2000 but it doesn't seem to find it.

I installed the drivers.
checked if the needed dll's are there and they are
The services are running.

Info:
Windows 2000 terminal server service pack 4
Smartcard reader = USB
I log on to the server using RDP wich has the option set to transfer smart card readers to the server.

Anyone tried this before or knows if it's even possible?
I'v been searching the internet for anything but not finding much and what I do find just tells me that it should work.

Re: Smart card reader and terminal server 2000

Randor 3-Jan-09 12:16

Randor

3-Jan-09 12:16

I would recommend downloading WinObj by Mark Russinovich[^] and check if the USB device has the proper security permissions and is in the Global namespace[^]. There have been several USB device vendors that have failed to support Terminal server due to implementation faults.

Best Wishes,
-David Delaune

Web cam

messages26-Dec-08 18:12

messages

26-Dec-08 18:12

Hi everyone
Is it possible to use of digital camera like a web cam or no?

Re: Web cam

Luc Pattyn26-Dec-08 18:50

Luc Pattyn

26-Dec-08 18:50

Hi,

Some high-end camera's have a command interface, so you can tell them to take a picture.
Most digital camera's don't have this, they just export the pictures taken manually.

Smile | :)

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Re: Web cam

messages1-Jan-09 23:00

messages

1-Jan-09 23:00

Thanks for your help. Smile | :)

Re: Web cam

Johpoke28-Dec-08 8:41

Johpoke

28-Dec-08 8:41

As Luc said, you can't interface to them directly as a web camera. However most cameras have composite out, in which you could use a USB composite input device, which you can interface to as a web camera. I have this[^] device, sometimes I use it with my digital camera when I'm going to stage pictures, it works very good.

//Johannes

PopcornHour A-110 Device (Elaine and JohnC)

#realJSOP26-Dec-08 3:14

#realJSOP

26-Dec-08 3:14

I am seriously considering getting one of these (with the accompanying wireless networking add-on) and putting in a WD Green 1tb drive in it.

How do you rip your movies? To ISO? Mpg? Other?

Do you do any post-processing? I've heard you can post-process and get the file size down by as much as 50% and even end up with a *better* looking video (takes a number of hours to do this *per movie*, though).

How do you have yours configured? I have over 300 dvd's (I know I can't fit them all onto a single 1tb drive), and I'll probably be able to fit a number of them onto the drive. How do you have yours organized? My wife wants to know if we can set up folders, like "A-E", "F-J", etc., so it makes it easier to find a movie.

Anything you can tell me about the interface would be nice.

Trollslayer26-Dec-08 9:37

Trollslayer

26-Dec-08 9:37

I use DVDShrink[^] and reauthor for just the main film (not obthered about extras), files are in a simple tree e.g.:
Films
----->Action
----->Comedy
etc.
DVDShrink can reduce size as well but loses quality, not something I use. Transcoding would provide better compression but would need optimised to avoid qualtiy reduction.
The basic system does a file browse but there are add ons that create HTML files to provide a jukebox system with IMDB lookup, just starting to look at it myself.
One of the most popular is YAMJ (Yet Another Movie Jukebox) which I believe you run on your PC accessing the PCH as a network drive then on the PCH browse the resulting

index.htm

file.
The forums are here[^].
Have fun!

Elaine.

Visit http://www.notreadytogiveup.com/[^] and do something special today.

Lev Danielyan29-Dec-08 6:59

Lev Danielyan

29-Dec-08 6:59

If you don't want to loose the quality, you can get rid of all the bonus stuff on DVD, and keep the movie only (AFAIR DvdShrink does that also).

As for the ISO, since most of the jukeboxes like popcorn, are based on Linux, keeping the stuff in ISO image is not a problem, it can perfectly mount it on the fly and play it, at least 3 or 4 models I've tested do (I'm pretty sure popcorn does also, even if it isn't OTB, there will be a patch in the community Smile | :)

).

There is a great encoder out there, Canopus Procoder, it can produce great results, but keep in mind that re-encoding is actually very time-consuming, and the tool is commercial.

You also check the H.264 format, it is pretty slow to encode, pretty expensive to decode (it terms of processor load), but has a great image quality (if encoded properly Wink | ;)

)

Regards,
Lev

Dan Neely8-Jan-09 8:16

Dan Neely

8-Jan-09 8:16

John Simmons / outlaw programmer wrote:
Do you do any post-processing? I've heard you can post-process and get the file size down by as much as 50% and even end up with a *better* looking video (takes a number of hours to do this *per movie*, though).

Any conversion between formats can only reduce the fidelity of the recording vs the lossless original in the studio vaults. At best you can reduce it to minimal levels but you can't magic data back into existence.

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