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hi all, not sure if i'm posting this in the right discussion board. but getting every eager to finish off my project. my new you-beaut program is ready to roll except for one thing, the program on the USB drive must autorun once it is connected..
I've been doing a bit of research on making my USB drive to autorun. Based on what i've gathered, "the device must not be marked as a removable media device" - microsoft
would anybody know how to achieve this??
(i've considered writing a hook application to handle the autorun side of things. but i would consider this as the very last option)
cheers,
mike 
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have a look at the DDK, "classpnp\autorun.c"!
Don't try it, just do it! 
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Is it possible to install Win98 on a machine with only 8mb ram, because it complains when I try. I've heard that using the /im switch will allow me to do this, but it doesn't appear to work 
Upgrading is not exactly an option at this point...
TIA
Paul
That demands capital punishment!! Death by a herd of marauding Bobs! - Ryan Binns
modified 18-Jul-18 11:59am.
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/nm This switch bypasses the minimum hardware requirement test. This tests for a minimum of a 486/66DX central processing unit (CPU) and 16 megabytes (MB) of memory.
Unless your message was a typo I think it should be /nm
/im Causes setup to ignore the conventional memory check.
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I'd be interested to know.. 8Mb Ram is pretty small but who knows may work fine!
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Great! I just managed to shoe-horn 98 onto this old laptop... Now I'm trying to get WLAN to work... The idea is that then I'll have a pc I can use in the house for surfing/email/chatting etc.. 
[edit] It is very slow though... Oh well  [/edit]
Paul
That demands capital punishment!! Death by a herd of marauding Bobs! - Ryan Binns
modified 18-Jul-18 11:59am.
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Hi All,
I am into webdevelopment with ASP, .NET and stuffs. I am running my PC with XP OS. Can I maintain the same ot shall I change to 2000 Adv Server?
The problem here is I cant run SQL server 2000 with full server option.
Please suggest me... to be or not to be with XP?? I have plans to go for the 2003 server later (after 6 months)
I was born intelligent
Education ruined me!.
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You can run the personal version of SQL or Developer version . If you want to run the Enterprise version you would need a server OS .. Which can be Windows 2000 Server MUCH cheaper than Advanced server .
You only would need Advanced Server if you were Clustering ...
Hope this helps !
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Thanks for the reply.
Chris F wrote:
if you were Clustering
means?? let me know what that is anyway ?!?!
I was born intelligent
Education ruined me!.
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If you only want to do development, you can get the SQL Server 2000 Developer Edition, which will install on a desktop.
You need a Server edition of Windows (Windows 2000 Server, Advanced Server or Datacenter Server, or Windows Server 2003 Standard, Enterprise or Datacenter Edition) to install a full version of SQL Server 2000, which you must do to comply with the license in a deployment scenario. You can also use Windows NT 4.0 Server but I wouldn't really recommend that at this stage.
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I would prefer for.. Win 2000 Server... which i plan to update after 6 months time from now...
Thanks!
I was born intelligent
Education ruined me!.
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hi there 
i recently started with writing drivers in windows.
could anybody please explain how i get the output of dprintf() ?
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Do you have to use dprintf()? I would recommend using DbgPrint instead.
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Hi,
I am trying to write an application that will act as a service on Windows 98. I found some sample code for writing service applications for Win2000/XP, but not for Win98. Does anyone have any information concerning this?
Thanks,
Steve
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Revelation7 wrote:
I am trying to write an application that will act as a service on Windows 98. I found some sample code for writing service applications for Win2000/XP, but not for Win98. Does anyone have any information concerning this?
You would have to reproduce your service as a program that just ran with a tray icon or something like that because Win9x does not have the service framework NT based OSes have.
Matt Newman
I am the anti-linux
"If you're Master Chief and you're facing the Flood, grab a shotgun and save the last checkpoint" - Me, cause I was bored
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The TCP/IP stack in Win95 used to get thoroughly hosed periodically, and I often had to uninstall it then reinstall the protocol. On a few machines I even found it necessary to completely remove networking from the Windows setup and reinstall fresh. There was also a critical flaw in the network redirector dll, redir.dll IIRC, that was fixed by a download from Technet. You might try looking for that, though I doubt that you'll find anything that old on the site anymore.
"Your village called -
They're missing their idiot."
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Roger Wright wrote:
reinstall the protocol
OK, I'll try that. Just for clarity, how would I reinstall networking completely? I don't see it in the Windows Setup list (CPanel/Add Programs/Windows Setup).
[edit] I think I figured that bit out. I just killed everything in the list in the Network cpanel applet. [/edit]
Roger Wright wrote:
redir.dll
I'll check that out.
Thanks
Paul
That demands capital punishment!! Death by a herd of marauding Bobs! - Ryan Binns
modified 18-Jul-18 11:59am.
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I don't recall exactly what it was called back then, but there should be a line in the Add/Remove Programs/Windows Setup section that, when expanded, contains all the networking pieces - protocols, adapters, clients, etc - that you can unselect. Of course, if you don't have the original CD or floppy disks you're out of luck; it will demand the originals even to uninstall anything.
"Your village called -
They're missing their idiot."
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Roger Wright wrote:
contains all the networking pieces - protocols, adapters, clients
That sounds like the Network applet. I did however try reinstalling DUN in the Windows Setup area. Luckily I have the original CD.
*tries lots of things*
...and it worked!!
Thanks very much! Now I've only gotta fix name resolution, but pinging/browsing by ip works! kudos++
Paul
That demands capital punishment!! Death by a herd of marauding Bobs! - Ryan Binns
modified 18-Jul-18 11:59am.
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Dear All,
I am developing an application in MFC VC++ Version 6.0 for Windows 2000. I start my application as soon as the system logs on, by giving the path of my exe in Run field i.e.
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run
I want to run my program in safe mode also. But unfortunately my program doesnot starts in the safe mode automatically because Run entry in registy doesnot work in this case.
Please suggest any way to run my application in safe mode also.
Feel free to ask any further queries in this regards,
Thanks
Rohit Dhamija
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Run does not work because Safe Mode is for repairing your system and for diagnosing problems, not for running applications. If you're worried that users can reset the system and start in Safe Mode to avoid your program, don't give them the 'shut down system' privilege, and don't give them physical access to the computer.
Oh, hang on, they need to do that to use it...
If you really need your program to run all the time, write it as a service. However, Windows still won't run your service if it boots in Safe Mode, IIRC - there's a limited set of required services that are started. See Inside Windows 2000 (Solomon, Russinovich) for more information.
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Try running it from AUTOEXEC.BAT. That should cause it to run even in a DOS mode boot.
"Your village called -
They're missing their idiot."
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