Glenn9999

I usually don't because it doesn't work 3/4 of the time I try it. But tried it now and got the name of the software and was able to download it (under WSC it's called "WSC Guard", under McAfee it's called "McAfee Wireless Security"). Such are things when most of the references just say "here's the link" or "google this and you'll find it". Doesn't work too well if it's not current. If anyone else finds this software, you have to click "Disable Authentication" to be able to use the free mode of the software, which is the WPA networking part. I also found an open source project called "WPA Supplicant" (which you can Google) which claims the same function. YMMV on either, I suppose. When I find a wireless net card I like, I'll get to try both

I've been looking for router drivers and software lately, and one interesting thing I ran into numerous references for is a software that claims to offer WPA support for Microsoft OSes made before XP (98/ME/2000). The problem is that the company which made this (Wireless Security Corp.) was bought out by McAfee and the original site URLs do not exist. Has anyone encountered this (or something like it)? And does anyone have a current URL link?

What'd you find, an old version? True. You have to look in the privacy cleaner part to find the other stuff you mention. As for the CCleaner thing, I just tried System-Cleaner on a system that CCleaner has been run on pretty regularly and it found 852 files and registry entries that CCleaner didn't...

Probably because Comodo doesn't push it very hard on their web site. They seem to favor their internet security things (paying stuff plus the firewall/anti-virus) over all the other local tools that they have done. I use it and like it. The GUI is a little clunky and the auto-update is kind of an annoyance, but it is definitely by far the most thorough product of this kind I've encountered.

If you do a search, the results page will have a side panel on the left side which can allow you to indicate more specifics, like "Everything", "Images", "Videos" and so on.

Okay, I ended up doing this and it worked very well. In fact, I remembered when I went to do it to verify the burn, so that folded in steps #2 and #3. The only other question I had out of this is about DVD-RW media. The disk I had set aside for general use didn't work, and I had to go 3 disks into the spindle of new disks I had to find a disk that passed the tests. Is/was this typical for 4X rewritable media, or would this might point to something wrong with my burner (since I went to another computer to burn it)?

Since I have a stack of rewritable optical media sitting here that hasn't been touched for a while. So, I was giving some thought on how best to test RW media (CD-RW, DVD-RW, others) to see whether it is good or not. Of course, I don't want to have to find out the hard way by trying to use it and come back with errors. I don't really want to throw these out, and the topic is interesting to me. One thing I do think is that it can be useful to have some form of "Scandisk" that will work in such a situation, but that isn't necessarily feasable on a write-once media (I think they only do it with UDF anyway), so I was thinking of some ideas. The best idea I had in mind: 1) Generate a file the exact published size of the media. What would be the best contents of the media? Would multiple files be better? 2) Burn those files to the media at the top rated speed of the media. 3) Check the files (compare them either against the originals or MD5 them). 4) Erase the disk. Of course if any errors come in the process then it is considered to be bad media. Any other thoughts or better approaches to take? (I apologize if this isn't the right forum, it seemed the best given the list)

See http://www.msfn.org/board/guide-download-everything-microsoft-msdbuild-t109264.html for most of the relevant software for Microsoft Update. The big thing is to opt-in to Microsoft Update if you want to have it come up right out of the gate. You can search pretty readily and find out how to rig a opt-in request on Microsoft's site (it's a registry change, as I recall, but it can be automated via program as well).

Moreso again. I keep hitting this downloader code I have (I got it to resume now), and found a site that sends HTML *as* the HTTP headers. So I'm still wondering if there's some kind of universal standard (there has to be I would think or the browsers won't work right). Any ideas on this one?

Thanks. It does seem so. The problem usually is to figure out what to expect. My problem that prompted this turned out to be that I was expecting a content length and that isn't valid for HTML. But still a good question, since I want what I'm working on to not be too "strange".

(I'm not sure where the best place would be to ask this, and this seems best) Are there any generally accepted rules for HTTP requests that are consistent with most sites? I ask because I've been trying to work (code-wise) on downloading a file pointed to by a valid fully qualified URL. Where I have it now is trying to handle "strange" URLs where valid files aren't necessarily specified. But I get stopped connection-wise if I try a main site link (like http://www.msfn.org/). So this got me wondering, and I'm not finding any good pages on it. What's the proper HTTP headers to be sending besides the obvious GET to download the file, in terms of what most sites will accept?

I've noticed there's some Google Chrome clones out now. Mainly, I've discovered Iron and Dragon, and I assume you could probably consider Safari in the lineage. Are there any more, and what is worthy about them? I gather the biggest change in these is that they pulled out the privacy garbage I remember reading about. Any other good ones, or any other thoughts on what is worthwhile or not about these?

One more question I can't find an answer to: I got the OCX implemented now. The problem, however, is that I can't find anything in Microsoft's documentation with regards to licensure i.e. the conditions they allow use of such things. Any good pointers on this one would be appreciated.

I don't have Office 2010, so I don't have a way to test (but I would love to, I would like a good implementation of this in Delphi I know works). But I can look at the code and see what I see. It appears from the script posted by Cluberti that you need to iterate through all the keys on the main path and then check the key from there. It appears you're just taking a full path and going straight into checking for the value itself, and not checking the branch for existence. Duplicate what is happening here and you should have better results. Dim strKey, subkey, arrSubkeys2, strOfficeKey, strValue strKey = "SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Office\14.0\Registration" ScriptHelper.Registry.EnumKey HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE, strKey, arrSubkeys2 If IsNull(arrSubkeys2) Then 'Office 2010 not installed, skip it arrSubKeys(4,1) = "" Else For Each subkey In arrSubkeys2 ScriptHelper.Registry.GetBinaryValue HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE, strKey & "\" & subkey, SEARCH_KEY, strValue If IsNull(strValue) Then strOfficeKey = "" Else strOfficeKey = strKey & "\" & subkey arrSubKeys(4,1) = strOfficeKey End If Next End If

Okay so this is why updates to Microsoft Visual C++ runtimes showed up on one computer I tested this on, and Windows Search 4.0 did not show up (offline scan, online scan showed it) on another computer I tested on? So offline scan shows updates to any INSTALLED software which would be considered problematic, only security wise?

Since I'm not finding this in search, I thought I'd ask to see if maybe anyone would know. Anyhow, I'm playing with scanning updates off of Windows Update. Something I'm seeing isn't quite adding up, so I thought I'd ask. Does anyone know if there is an offline scanning capability connected with Microsoft Update? I know there is one with Windows Update, as MBSA uses it. Why I ask is if I compare online with offline, that all that is expected with Microsoft Update shows online, while the offline scanner only shows Windows Update. Any ideas on this one, or does Microsoft not support offline scanning for Microsoft Update?

Okay, I figured out that I didn't need to necessarily worry about clean-up anyway with the format of what I'm using, so I won't worry about posting the WQL program I have. Edit: Replaced the old one with a newer version. I don't know if the remote connect part works, but the rest seems to work. If you want to connect to the local machine, all you need to do is hit the "Connect" button with nothing in the machine info fields.

Trying this with Delphi. Like was said, write the interface and the rest should take care of itself. But the interface is what needs taken care of. I figured out that using the COM related unit does all the COm initializations/uninitializations so I dropped that. Sample of the relevant code for #1: WbemLocator := nil; HRes := CoCreateInstance(Class_SWbemLocator, nil, CLSCTX_INPROC_SERVER, ISWbemLocator, WbemLocator); if HRes <> 0 then ShowMessage('Locator instance not created.'); WBEmServices := nil; WBEmServices := WBEMLocator.ConnectServer('', '\root\CIMV2', '', '', '', '', 0, nil); if HRes <> 0 then ShowMessage('Server connection not created.'); HRes := CoSetProxyBlanket(WbemServices, RPC_C_AUTHN_WINNT, RPC_C_AUTHZ_NONE, nil, wbemAuthenticationLevelCall, wbemImpersonationLevelImpersonate, nil, EOAC_NONE); ...(then later on when all is done, commenting these out fixes my access violations, but not cleaning this up either ) // WbemServices._Release; // WbemLocator._Release; For #2, it's much like the script that got posted in the thread. Submit a query and then parse the results: ObjectSet := nil; ObjectSet := WBEmServices.ExecQuery(Edit1.Text, 'WQL', wbemFlagReturnImmediately, nil); I don't see any error checking on the scripts I see posted on here, so it's hard to tell. I don't see anything in the SWbemObjectSet which indicates any error codes, so I'm not really sure that this one might be a possibility. (FWIW, I can post the exec for this when I get done if it'll help - one of them is a WQL processor, which I'm sure will help in poking around the WQL tables. It works pretty well except for the issues above)

Okay I got something reasonably working now from some examples, except for a few points: 1) I'm not a complete expert on COM by any means, but I'm finding it hard to procedurize things, because I'm getting an access violation. I find this happens when I try to make all my statements I use to connect to WMI into a function (eg. ConnectWMI(bla, bla, bla); ). Any ideas? This seems to be related to my attempts to clean things up. Remove that, and no crashes. Still need to clean things up to prevent memory leaks, though, so any ideas on this one would be good. 2) Error checking? I looked over the WbemObjectSet object and I'm not seeing anything jump out at me (nothing new, most of this stuff isn't documented too well - I'm fighting the WMP player object on that for another project) in that category. Usually when I enter a statement with an error in it, it just hangs there for a while and then comes back to prompt, but it would be nice to be able to come back with "Incorrect Table Name", or some such thing. I realize I could check the count if it's = 0 (and I do that), but I'm wondering if anything nicer could be done easily enough. 3) Then one thing I'm not sure of is this... I'm guessing from what I've read that there are such things as WMI methods as well? I'm not seeing anything particularly interesting jump out to play with (maybe something in Win32_BaseService?). Any ideas on this one? Edit: It's looking like Win32_Process.Create run against NOTEPAD.EXE ought to do it for this one...should be fine here I will say once you get the interface returning data, the WMI part is a breeze if you have the documentation and know SQL.

Thanks for the link, I just got my WMI interface done (I think, except for a few error related checks), and need some stuff to test it on

WMI Code Creator might be interesting, too. But seriously, I know what you're dealing with. I'm still trying (off and on) to write a good WMI interface for what I'm working on. Hopefully I can get it figured out soon.

If I understand it all properly, Pro was only meant to work with multiple PROCESSORS (as in X processor dies mounted onto the motherboard). The dual-core processor is just that: one processor. There's really a difference, and this is what is different about the licensing options. For the time, there wasn't multi-core dies and most people didn't work with multiple processor die systems, so the differentiation made sense. Also, the multiple processors (either through one die or multiple dies) do help in most applications in terms of load - the OS can schedule them dynamically among the processors and increase the ability of the system to respond to input. There is a performance benefit to multi-threading something in a multi-processor environment, though most applications will be multi-threaded anyway. The problem in most modern OSes (XP SP3 included) is that a lot of program vendors will try to tie work to specific processors, which eliminates most of what the OS can do to manage the processors.

Actually I didn't, but I got a couple of clues on what I can look for that will maybe reveal the answers to my questions. Thanks for your effort!

I was wondering if anyone knew of a good place for WMP OCX documentation? I'm having a hard time finding exactly what I'm looking for on Microsoft's site (most of what I search ends up pointing at a mobile widget, instead of what I'm looking for).

Generally to do something like this right, you have to pre-process the data on the drive and then burn it to CD. Any archiving software worth its salt for backup purposes (RAR and ZIP come to mind) offer spanning options where it will create files in sections with the size you desire. The feature was written in the days of floppies, but its flexible enough that you can specify whatever size you want. After you burn these sections to disk, to restore them, you have the software you use extract the first section, then it will ask for the other sections in turn when done. There was even a self-extract option as I recall. If that's not what you're looking for, I'm not sure what it is you are looking for...