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I still have some ideas. 1) I never used a W2k3 system, so I don't know what you mean with 'the grey screen'. There are some other options which can affect the boot screen, like /NOGUIBOOT and /BASEVIDEO. A full list of boot.ini options is listed here 2) You can try the /ONECPU switch to find out if the 2 processors are the problem, or the Multiproc kernel. 3) You can try the 'SMP Multiprocessor PC' instead of the 'ACPI Multiprocessor PC'. When this solves your problem, you can need a BIOS upgrade, but it's also possible the your ACPI kernel/hal is damaged, or that the boot sequence is changed in a way the problem is avoided. 4) You can use a copy of the kernel/hal of the other system. They are called NTOSKRNL.EXE and HAL.DLL, and are located in System32. Rename them (NTOSKRN2.EXE and HAL2.DLL for instance) and put them in your System32. Copy the Operation system line in boot.ini, and make the second one boot your 2nd kernel/hal by using the /HAL /KERNEL switches. See directions here 5) You can use DriverView to compare both systems. Maybe you can compare your clean installation on the same system too? You can use it to see the difference between safe mode and normal mode. (In that case you'll have to use the uniprocessor kernel). The overlap is not likely to be the problem. 6) You can use this trick to see if there are drivers which are obviously not needed. (Old VGA drivers, or something like that.) Don't know if it helps to remove them, but it won't hurt. 7) Did you alreay check the event viewer? 8) Remove all unnessesary hardware (network, sound, ...) or switch them off in BIOS, and see if it solves your problem. If so, reenable them one by one and see which one restarts the boot loop.

You can add the '/SOS' flag in boot.ini. This causes windows to list all drivers which are being loaded on screen. I hope you can read fast enough. (Handycam?) 'Cool and Quiet' clocks down the processor when it's not busy. AFAIK this is a W9x option. I never heard of such an option in NT. Of course that doesn't mean it doesn't exist.

According to Microsoft you can create a Rich Edit Control via CreateWindowEx. Then you have a window handle to send messages to. No need for function importing.

It's not strange. Using the multiprocessor kernel/hal causes the OS to use 2 processors. This means that if some driver is loaded which cannot handle 2 processors, it could crash. To come back to Cluberti's question, did you disable the automatic reboot on blue screen option? It's somwhere in Control panel->System. (Don't have an NT system here to find it).

You have to do both. The header is nessesary for the compiler to know the function names and prototyping, the .lib is for the linker to create the import table. A headerfile *can* contain some pragma to tell the linker which library to load. You'll need the 'Microsoft Platform SDK' to get all header and library files. Unfortunately this is a 1GB+ download, and I'm afraid it will not be compatible with your compiler/linker. The oldest version which is still served by MS where I'm aware of is found here. 'Only' 340 MB. This version is compatible with VC++6.0, all later versions aren't. Maybe it's compatible with your tools. Do you know that Borland has a new generation of free development tools? They're Back. I don't know if these run on W98. Update: Some Googling took me to this site, which looks like the '98 PSDK. Maybe you've enough with iBLDENV.exe (build environment).

My SOUL hurst reading this: A decimal 4 digit number has 10^4 = 10000 possible values, namely 0000 - 9999. No numbers are counted twice. So a base-26 (Hexaduodecimal?) 4 digit number has 26^4 = 456976 possible values, no one counted twice. This could be AAAA - ZZZZ when A-Z are used to represent the base-26 digits.

Qemu can run on W9x. Qemu can also mount a physical harddisk, to overcome the 'Ponch problem'. However, I don't know if it can do so on W9x. It could be an NT only option. The possibility of mounting a physical CDRom is NT only.

Reading all these words will BOIL my brain, I'm afraid.

Basically there are 2 ways. You can let the linker do it, or you can do it yourself. To let the linker do it you'll have to link your program with a .lib file. In most cases the lib file has the same name as the dll. You'll have to link shell32.lib to use shell32.dll functions. Somewhere in your project settings you should be able to specify which libs to link. The other way it to use LoadLibrary() to load a dll, and GetProcAddress() to import a function. The downside of letting the linker do it is that your program will not load if the dll or one of the functions you need don't exist. (Unless you're using 'delayloaded dll's'), and that the dll is loaded when your executable loads, causing extra startup time, even when you probably don't need the function. The downside of importing by hand is that it can be a lot of work, and is error prone. (It's easy to use the wrong prototyping, since the function is just a pointer.)

I don't see the problem. Is there a reason you insist on connection via IP address?

When you remove the default gateway from the Lan Adapter, (Properties of TCP/IP) it should work.

should be 1 billion microphones = 1 megaphone (European billions, of course) 1 million microphones = 1 phone

Is IE using a proxyserver? Firewall?

The line f.attributes |= hidden; should be changed to f.attributes &= ~hidden; which removes the hidden flag. Other possible flags are: 1 ReadOnly 2 Hidden 4 System 8 Disk drive volume label. Attribute is read-only. 16 Directory. Attribute is read-only. 32 Archive 64 Shortcut. Attribute is read-only. 128 Compressed. Attribute is read-only.

Ah, I see. It's not dos, but next code should work: var system = 4; var hidden = 2; function DoFolder( folder ) { var fso = new ActiveXObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject"); f = fso.GetFolder(folder); f.attributes |= system; f.attributes |= hidden; var fc = new Enumerator( f.SubFolders ); for (; !fc.atEnd(); fc.moveNext() ) { DoFolder( fc.item() ); } } DoFolder( "D:\\MyFolder" ); Copy the code, save it as a .js file, and doubleclick on it. It should set the system and hidden attribute of all subfolders of D:\MyFolder, including MyFolder itself. Have a look at the double \ in "D:\\MyFolder". This is necessary for all backslashes in your path.

Where are you TALKing about? This is the funny farm, and baseball is not funny.

/D does 'process folders as well' So attrib +s d:\myfolder\*.* /s /d attrib -s d:\myfolder\*.* /s should set the system flag for all folders, and reset it for all files.

Let's hope it will not turn out to be a FLOP

Can I make you happy with this thread?

?? A FROG is no dog, is it?

Anyone who wants to like Ranish can download it for free The Scandisk/Defrag limit is smaller than the LBA28 limit. Not much, only half a GiB, but enough to damage your partition using Scandisk when you only faced the LBA28 limit. On the other hand, it's easy to create a partition small enough to be safe for scandisk problems, but which crosses the LBA28 border. (You will only have to put another partition before it). So the OP will have to face both limits.

When you really want to have the max, you can't use FDISK. With Ranish you have more control. According to MS the maximal cluster count for Scandisk and Defrag is 4177920. Clusters are 32 KiB, so the maximal sector count is 267386880. In Ranish you can create a partition which comes as close to this value as possible. You can theoretically create a partition of exact this size, but since all partitions have to start at head 1 sector 1 of a cylinder, this can be impractical. Make sure that the ending sector of the partition is 268435456 or lower (the LBA28 limit). In Ranish you can use F4 to toggle between CHS and lineair addressing.

No. All I see is code which can be used by the man-in-the-middle to get an authenticated connection to the server, *IF* the client is dull enough to connect to the man-in-the-middle, instead of to the server. How would you force this? Hijacking a router, cutting a cable or social engineering? It doesn't even reveal the password, since it's encrypted by a onetime key, which encryption AFAIK is irreversable.

We're slowly SHINning into this thread

Link? How? When the client connects to the server on a known IP address, where should the man in the middle hide?