FixitUP

December 12, 2012

Thanks Yzöwl.

Andy

December 9, 2012

I would like to have a larger MRU history when I use the RUN command.

Is there a way to make it bigger ?

Thanks.

November 30, 2012

You are making assumptions about a one time use.
You can't help me and there is nothing wrong with that.
I have provided you with help by answering your questions.
To recap:
You asked if you could remove items from your %PATH%
I gave you an answer to which I've received no recognition of having provided
I provided you with possible corrections for your devcon command
You told me that it didn't work
Since devcon was not working I looked into other solutions for you. In order to do that I was forced to make assumptions since you have been less than forward with providing sufficient information on which to base our replies.
I gave you another solution by implementing a registry change.
You said that nothing happened
You later stated that something did happen because you got an error message about the command line I gave you.
There was nothing wrong with the command line I provided, however the solution was not appropriate for your purpose because you then decided to furnish us with a little more information. i.e. disable during typing.
I responded with both a method for managing that problem and a scripting idea for solving your issue.
You have the audacity to suggest I cannot help.
One thing is for sure after the courtesy I've shown thus far, and your lack of it I will certainly think twice about providing you with any more help!

I am sorry I did not thank you for the help you have provided.

Andy

November 30, 2012

Nobody is going to help you unless you start to provide true and proper feedback!
I added it the registry but nothing happens.
From the command line, it said too many command line parameters.
One of the above statements is obviously a lie!
(There is also nothing wrong with the command line I provided))
The real question is why devcon can't disable the touchpad when it has worked on other hardware ?
Maybe a bug in devcon or in Synaptics.
Most touchpad software has a watch/keep alive monitor function which prevents it from being disabled through anything other than its own control panel applet and even then OEMs alter that applet and disable it even more.
In order to prevent the touchpad interfering with typing you can adjust the sensitivity settings through your control panel applet, just keep altering the sensitivity level until it reaches a happy medium between funtionality and sensitivity for typing.
I'm fairly certain that you will never be able to use devcon to disable your touchpad. Your goal is also a relatively 'one time only' action and therefore does not really require a scripting solution anyhow. If you really wanted that then create a script which captures your specific key presses whilst configuring using the GUI

You are making assumptions about a one time use.

You can't help me and there is nothing wrong with that.

I write programs in assembly and found some C++ code from Synaptics to disable and re-enable the touchpad.

The C++ code uses M.S. specific include and header files and I installed a M.S. Compiler.

I found it to be clunky and inefficient. It could not even see .h files in directories full of them. :-)

Take care,

Andy

November 29, 2012

I added it the registry but nothing happens.
The Synaptics touchpad is supposed to turn off while text is being typed, but it does not.
Andy
Your report is exactly what I would have assumed to have been the result since the command line I provided was not intended to do that.

From the command line, it said too many command line parameters.

The real question is why devcon can't disable the touchpad when it has worked on other hardware ?

Maybe a bug in devcon or in Synaptics.

November 28, 2012

I added it the registry but nothing happens.

The Synaptics touchpad is supposed to turn off while text is being typed, but it does not.

Andy

November 28, 2012

ACPI\SYN0141\4&B310638&0 : Synaptics PS/2 Port TouchPad

devcon disable ACPI\SYN0141*

I have used other variations such as using @ before the string.

Andy

November 26, 2012

If your ID contains an ampersand, &, it must be enclosed in doublequotes, ", if your ID is an instance ID then it should be preceded by an at symbol, @.
There is nothing wrong with the length of your path, by all means remove the duplicate entry if you wish however your computer may suffer worse issues if your software cannot find items due to removed locations in the path.

I tried your suggestions for devcon, but nothing works.

November 21, 2012

This is the device ID that devcon reports, but my batch gives me

"Device not disabled." It fails when run as an admin as well.

ACPI\SYN0141\4&B310638&0 : Synaptics PS/2 Port TouchPad

devcon disable ACPI\SYN0141*

This path looks like it has some duplicates and entries that are not really needed.

Can it be thinned out?

I thought it might contribute to the slowness of the laptop.

Andy

%SystemRoot%\system32;%SystemRoot%;%SystemRoot%\system32\WBEM;c:\Program Files\ActivIdentity\ActivClient\;C:\Program Files\Common Files\Roxio Shared\DLLShared\;C:\Program Files\Common Files\Roxio Shared\10.0\DLLShared\;C:\WINDOWS\system32\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0;C:\Program Files\Windows Imaging\;C:\WINDOWS\system32\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0;C:\Program Files\Common Files\Netop\;C:\Program Files\Netop\Vision\XL\;C:\Program Files\QuickTime\QTSystem\

Thanks,

Andy

November 20, 2012

Thanks Allen.

My code is MS specific. I dled MS VC to assemble it., but it is one royal pain to use.

It can't even recognize directories or the files in them. :-(

Andy

November 18, 2012

I am getting these compiler errors. Can someone help me diagnose what I am doing wrong ?
Yes.
http://homepage.ntlworld.com./jonathan.deboynepollard/FGA/questions-with-yes-or-no-answers.html
Standard Litany needed:
http://homepage.ntlworld.com./jonathan.deboynepollard/FGA/problem-report-standard-litany.html
and BTW, wrong sub-forum, should go here:
http://www.msfn.org/board/forum/66-programming-c-delphi-vbvbs-cmdbatch-etc/
jaclaz

Thanks jaclaz.

November 18, 2012

You're missing comdef.h the default include directories. Posting which compiler you're using might help (it look like visual C++ but could be anything).

Thanks for the help.

Compiler: MinGW GCC 4.7.0 32-bit

Executing gcc.exe...

gcc.exe "c:\program files\dev-cpp\mingw32\include\comutil.h" -o "c:\program files\dev-cpp\mingw32\include\comutil.exe" -I"C:\Program Files\Dev-Cpp\MinGW32\include" -L"C:\Program Files\Dev-Cpp\MinGW32\lib" -static-libstdc++ -static-libgcc

I can post the .cpp file if that will help.

What's confusing is that there are different versions of the header files.

In file included from c:\program files\dev-cpp\mingw32\include\comutil.h:17:0:

c:\program files\dev-cpp\mingw32\bin\../lib/gcc/mingw32/4.7.0/../../../../include/intsafe.h:113:19: error: expected declaration specifiers or '...' before 'return'

c:\program files\dev-cpp\mingw32\bin\../lib/gcc/mingw32/4.7.0/../../../../include/intsafe.h:304:1: error: expected '=', ',', ';', 'asm' or '__attribute__' before '__inline'

c:\program files\dev-cpp\mingw32\bin\../lib/gcc/mingw32/4.7.0/../../../../include/intsafe.h:330:1: error: expected '=', ',', ';', 'asm' or '__attribute__' before '__inline'

c:\program files\dev-cpp\mingw32\bin\../lib/gcc/mingw32/4.7.0/../../../../include/intsafe.h:345:22: error: invalid suffix "ui8" on integer constant

c:\program files\dev-cpp\mingw32\bin\../lib/gcc/mingw32/4.7.0/../../../../include/intsafe.h:361:1: error: expected '=', ',', ';', 'asm' or '__attribute__' before '__inline'

c:\program files\dev-cpp\mingw32\bin\../lib/gcc/mingw32/4.7.0/../../../../include/intsafe.h:397:1: error: expected '=', ',', ';', 'asm' or '__attribute__' before '__inline'

c:\program files\dev-cpp\mingw32\bin\../lib/gcc/mingw32/4.7.0/../../../../include/intsafe.h:428:1: error: expected '=', ',', ';', 'asm' or '__attribute__' before '__inline'

c:\program files\dev-cpp\mingw32\bin\../lib/gcc/mingw32/4.7.0/../../../../include/intsafe.h:454:1: error: expected '=', ',', ';', 'asm' or '__attribute__' before '__inline'

c:\program files\dev-cpp\mingw32\bin\../lib/gcc/mingw32/4.7.0/../../../../include/intsafe.h:480:1: error: expected '=', ',', ';', 'asm' or '__attribute__' before '__inline'

c:\program files\dev-cpp\mingw32\bin\../lib/gcc/mingw32/4.7.0/../../../../include/intsafe.h:516:1: error: expected '=', ',', ';', 'asm' or '__attribute__' before '__inline'

c:\program files\dev-cpp\mingw32\bin\../lib/gcc/mingw32/4.7.0/../../../../include/intsafe.h:531:23: error: invalid suffix "ui64" on integer constant

c:\program files\dev-cpp\mingw32\bin\../lib/gcc/mingw32/4.7.0/../../../../include/intsafe.h:572:1: error: expected '=', ',', ';', 'asm' or '__attribute__' before '__inline'

c:\program files\dev-cpp\mingw32\bin\../lib/gcc/mingw32/4.7.0/../../../../include/intsafe.h:580:22: error: invalid suffix "i8" on integer constant

c:\program files\dev-cpp\mingw32\bin\../lib/gcc/mingw32/4.7.0/../../../../include/intsafe.h:587:22: error: invalid suffix "i8" on integer constant

c:\program files\dev-cpp\mingw32\bin\../lib/gcc/mingw32/4.7.0/../../../../include/intsafe.h:597:1: error: unknown type name '__forceinline'

c:\program files\dev-cpp\mingw32\bin\../lib/gcc/mingw32/4.7.0/../../../../include/intsafe.h:599:1: error: expected '=', ',', ';', 'asm' or '__attribute__' before 'UInt8ToChar'

c:\program files\dev-cpp\mingw32\bin\../lib/gcc/mingw32/4.7.0/../../../../include/intsafe.h:615:1: error: expected '=', ',', ';', 'asm' or '__attribute__' before '__inline'

c:\program files\dev-cpp\mingw32\bin\../lib/gcc/mingw32/4.7.0/../../../../include/intsafe.h:623:21: error: invalid suffix "i8" on integer constant

c:\program files\dev-cpp\mingw32\bin\../lib/gcc/mingw32/4.7.0/../../../../include/intsafe.h:630:22: error: invalid suffix "i8" on integer constant

c:\program files\dev-cpp\mingw32\bin\../lib/gcc/mingw32/4.7.0/../../../../include/intsafe.h:640:1: error: unknown type name '__forceinline'

c:\program files\dev-cpp\mingw32\bin\../lib/gcc/mingw32/4.7.0/../../../../include/intsafe.h:642:1: error: expected '=', ',', ';', 'asm' or '__attribute__' before

November 18, 2012

I am using DevC++ and am getting these errors.

Can someone help me please.