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What's the filename extension? What program(s) create/read them? Try using Google to search for file formats using the same extension. There are several sites on the Internet that publish the internal structure of various file formats; you might just get lucky!
"My kid was Inmate of the Month at Adobe Mountain Juvenile Corrections Center" - Bumper Sticker in Bullhead City
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How can I programmatically change the workgroup / domain a computer belongs?
Can I do it remotely?
Is there a sample, or any hints?
Thanks in advance.
...Plug & Pray... 
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Hi, I used windows xp professional. Because everytime that my computer startup and log on is to slow, I decide to choose hibernate everytime that I want to shutdown my computer. When I continue to work, it start again and it is faster than I turn on the machine from shutdown. If I still continue to use hibernate forever, is it have any disadvantage to my system? (Especially hard disk drive).
Roath Kanel
APO-CEDC
Save Children Norway-Cambodia Office
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no, i guess not.
for sure all your ram memory will be stored in the harddisk then loaded agian, but it shouldn't couse any harm to the harddisk!
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Hallo,
I am writing an installer, which should also configure a toolbar on the taskbar. This toolbar should show the contens of the directory "D:\Log". I know that this can be easily done by using the mouse, right click on the taskbar and select "Toolbars -> New toolbar..." and choosing the directory "D:\Log" from the dialog box. But how can I do this programmatically using VC++? Or can VBScript also do this? (Other languages are no option in this project.)
Thanks,
StHubi
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"Have no fear, the saint is here!"
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Hi, I have 5 computer in my house, I want to connect network to use a library to research. But I still have a problem while choosing the hub/switch. I choose 8 port device but I still could not figure out that I should choose hub or switch? I just know that 8 port switch is more expensive than 8 port hub. But I don't know which situation that I should choose hub or switch. Could anyone give me some suggestion to choose between hub or switch to connect network to learn at my home?
Roath Kanel
APO-CEDC
Save Children Norway-Cambodia Office
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The difference between hub/switch:
Hub: Data recieved on any port is broadcasted to all ports in a hub
Switch: Data recieved in a port is sent only to the spefic port it is destined to.
In a switch the speed could be better as data is sent only to the needed ports and not to all ports.
For a network in a house, with less traffic a Hub should do. With just 5 computers and application like yours there would be no difference. So i would suggest you could just go with a Hub.
Tarakeshwar
CCIE Q(Routing and Switching), MCSE Security
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Thank you very much for your comment! I will buy hub to set a lab at my house.
Roath Kanel
APO-CEDC
Save Children Norway-Cambodia Office
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there would no advantage of using hub or switch at a small network level of yours but if u are plaaning to use hub on price basis then u should go for a switch as there is not big diffrence in switch and hub .
the technical diffrence in hub and switch is , switch has a repeater while there is no repeater in hub , so switch has a advantage of fast data transmission , as the data in such small in not larce as in case of big and vast networks like 100- or more pcs. the switch basically smothens your network , but i would prefer u switch as there no price diffrence in it , so if u want increase number of pc u can have better hardware support support.
vishwam
vishwamparekh@hotmail.com
network admistrator (super cable )
india
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Hey,
Just recently loging off or shuting down my computer has starting taking a very long time. I am running Win2k and the hangup occurs when the box pops up that says "Saving Settings..." It takes anywhere from three to five minutes to get past this.
Any ideas on why this takes so long?
-Thanks
Mark
As you journey through life take a minute every now and then to give a thought for the other fellow.
He could be plotting something.
-Hagar the Horrible
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The normal cause for that is when you have your My Docs or some shared folder on a network drive. Windows will sync the folder contents at logoff time, and if you have many and/or large files, it will take a while to move the data over the network.
--Mike--
Personal stuff:: Ericahist | Homepage
Shareware stuff:: 1ClickPicGrabber | RightClick-Encrypt
CP stuff:: CP SearchBar v2.0.2 | C++ Forum FAQ
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You cannot stop me with paramecium alone!
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My computer isn't on a network. It just plugged directly into the cable modem.
Any other ideas?
If there is any information I could provide just let me know.
-Thanks
Mark
As you journey through life take a minute every now and then to give a thought for the other fellow.
He could be plotting something.
-Hagar the Horrible
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I find this happenning when a driver or service fails to respond to the shutdown message. When I see it happenning on a customer's system I usually can make it go away by removing and reinstalling drivers for various devices; video and sound cards are the most common problem devices. On my system I have an annoying bit of software from Creative Labs (DEVLDR) that delays the shutdown by several minutes, but I live with it rather than mess with the sound card. After all, I only shut down every three months or so...;)
"My kid was Inmate of the Month at Adobe Mountain Juvenile Corrections Center" - Bumper Sticker in Bullhead City
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"I find this happenning when a driver or service fails to respond to the shutdown message."
Can this be true even if everything in device manager seems cool(no little yellow signs or red x). So you just reinstall all the drivers and it clears up.
"After all, I only shut down every three months or so..."
You must be keep a pretty tight ship for it to be running that stable. How do you do it .
Mark
As you journey through life take a minute every now and then to give a thought for the other fellow.
He could be plotting something.-Hagar the Horrible
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---Mark--- wrote:
Can this be true even if everything in device manager seems cool
Yes, it definitely can. Sometimes drivers/services seem to cease listening to their message loops, and appear to go to sleep, especially if you haven't called upon them for a while. I don't know the details, but I suspect that Device Manager only queries the device status as it is loaded and initialized. If that goes smoothly, it will report that everything is cool. If something subsequently fails DM will never notice it, unless you have asked it to perform an operation that fails to execute correctly.
---Mark--- wrote:
How do you do it
I don't download cute crap that I don't need, and I accept most of the defaults suggested by Microsoft. They generally work well enough for my purposes. I've rarely had a failure caused by a problem in third-party software; only MS updates have killed my system, with the single exception of AOL's AIM application. Win2K is a remarkably stable platform, so long as you don't try to do anything outside of the norm.
XP is something of an unknown to me; I've never had it on a machine of mine, and can see no reason ever to "upgrade." My customers, however, are cursed with it, as most have purchased new PCs with it pre-installed. Working on their machines has given me enough experience to learn that I never want it on anything that I depend upon.
"My kid was Inmate of the Month at Adobe Mountain Juvenile Corrections Center" - Bumper Sticker in Bullhead City
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Roger Wright wrote:
My customers, however, are cursed with it, as most have purchased new PCs with it pre-installed. Working on their machines has given me enough experience to learn that I never want it on anything that I depend upon.
In my experience a clean install of XP is better than any pre-installed system I have ever seen. My XP box only ever shuts off for power outages and hardware maintenance. Though based on what I have seen of 2K (never had it on a machine of my own) there isn't a whole lot of benifit of upgrading a stable win2k machine to xp.
Matt Newman
What is your malfunction? - Dangeresque, too?
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I used to face this problem too. My windows 2000 is working fine but when I install MCAFEE 7.0, I cannot shut down my computer. The message display that "Saving data..." and it still appear whether I keep my computer running one hours. If I remove MCAFEE 7.0 it can shutdown but it not properly too. Some people tell me that MCAFEE 7.0 replay winsock control and some network component, but their explaination seem not logic. Until now I cannot figure out the main problem.
Roath Kanel
APO-CEDC
Save Children Norway-Cambodia Office
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Hi, I have a problem with the connection between my PC and its device. At home I have a printer HP 2200D connect to my computer via LPT1 port. When I turn on the computer properly and I turn on my printer later, the computer could not print and it said that there is no printer connect to the PC. My modem also have the same problem like printer when it connect to my PC via COM2. But if I turn on the printer/modem the same time that I turn on the computer start, everything is fine. I can print and access to the internet. Could anyone give me some idea about this problem?
Roath Kanel
APO-CEDC
Save Children Norway-Cambodia Office
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Windows detects its environment at startup, and doesn't reliably notice devices added later on legacy ports. USB interfaces are designed to notify the OS on the fly when they are powered up, but the older interfaces - serial and parallel - don't always respond. Try turning on all of the connected peripherals before you start the computer. That should solve the problem.
"My kid was Inmate of the Month at Adobe Mountain Juvenile Corrections Center" - Bumper Sticker in Bullhead City
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Thank you Roger! Maybe this is the only solution that could solve this problem. 
Roath Kanel
APO-CEDC
Save Children Norway-Cambodia Office
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Hi All .
In the system developing and in the Design step , I want know what CPU Usage of my program is ,
to buy suitable computer system . This program will have numbers of thread that do all tasks.(In another word , I want know how many cpu this prog will need ? )
If you can , please help me ?
( Excuse me , I dont know English language well )
Thanks alot .
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Hi,
i have written a service which makes network connections. Under win2000 it is running. When i install the service on windows XP the service has a problem to establish a network connection. But in the windows explorer of XP it is no problem to make the connection. What is the diffrence for services running on a XP system? The networkfunction i use is: WNetAddConnection2
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This was an odd one that I hope someone can learn from. Today I had a call from a customer that was totally baffling. Her two CD drives in the secondary IDE channel went missing. My first thought was a loose cable, but reseating the cable didn't help. Second, though the odds are long against it, was that the drives or cable had failed. But the BIOS recognizes both drives perfectly; if the cable or either drive had failed that would not happen.
A bit of history:
Several months ago I replaced the existing motherboard, a PII, with a new, top of the line P4 with hyperthreading enabled. I know that it's bad practice, but I did it without reinstalling the OS - Win98 original. My reason at the time was that they had a bunch of software installed that they use regularly, but don't have the disks to reinstall. They also don't have a copy of Win98 in the office. I've had some luck doing this, but Win98 can't adapt to hardware changes very well and usually a full reinstallation of the OS is necessary to force redetection of the motherboard resources. On this occasion it worked, but the performance was terrible - the thing still runs like molasses in January. But it functioned, and the error messages that originally prompted the upgrade went away. Now, suddenly, the system can't recognize the drives on the secondary IDE channel. All of the drives are operating in "compatibility mode" which explains why it's still slow. But at least they were usable for several months, and I can't figure out what might have triggered the change!
My recommendation today was to bite the bullet, accept that they're going to lose data and the programs that created it, and install Win2K Pro on the thing. I just hope that they can still buy Win2K, as the primary program used by this PC will not run on WinXP. I'm hopeful that I can do this cleanly, without major problems, but this system seems to be cursed. IIRC, a clean installation only wipes out the C:\Windows folder, and it's just possible that the installation program and files for third party tools are in their own, separate folders. I sure hope so...
I hate it when I can't solve a customer's problem... It doesn't happen often - perhaps twice in ten years - but it still sucks!
The moral of the story is, I guess, that when it's best to do a full reinstallation it is better to accept the loss and do it early, than to wait until later and suffer poor performance until then. Some things just can't be helped, especially when you're dealing with people who really shouldn't be allowed to operate a PC without adult supervision.
"My kid was Inmate of the Month at Adobe Mountain Juvenile Corrections Center" - Bumper Sticker in Bullhead City
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Can you tell about her problem clearly? What she has been doing before she lose the CDROM drive? She just install windiws, or she play too much with some option in the windows or she just setup her CDROM drive (before she get that problem).
In my opinion, the following thing might relate to her problem:
1. Some one might be disable her CDROM from device driver tab of My computer property.
2. Someone might change the registry to hide her CDROM drive.
3. Her computer might inffect with some kind of virus that hide the local drive from windows explorer.
4. She might change some setting in CMOS not to detect CDROM.
5. She might set wrong jumper before she start to connect her CDROM with the system.
6. The driver of the CDROM is corrupted.
7. The mainboard might not compatible with her CDROM.
Note: all of these list is relate to my opinion and my friend problem. Please check it carefully and choose only the correct answer. 
Roath Kanel
APO-CEDC
Save Children Norway-Cambodia Office
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8. None of the above.;)
No one in her office has the ability or normal curiosity to even try changing a settings. No one knows where Device Manager is, or suspects that it might exist. No one has ever seen the back of a computer - they only know that they can be opened at all because they've seen me do it. She only does two things with the computer. She swaps email with her husband in the service, and tracks building permits on tribal lands using a proprietary software package, and that requires occasional backups to CD.
The good news is that, finally, her boss got permission to buy her a new PC today. The bad news is that the proprietary software won't work with WinXP.
"My kid was Inmate of the Month at Adobe Mountain Juvenile Corrections Center" - Bumper Sticker in Bullhead City
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