[How do you batch kill a process?]

taskkill

http://www.microsoft.com/resources/documen...s/taskkill.mspx

pskill

http://www.sysinternals.com/Utilities/PsKill.html

kp.exe

http://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?showto...31entry325531

[order of Windos hotfix's in batch file]

Old habits die hard. Answer to original question is the same though... does not matter what order you install hotfixes, qchain, either built in or external takes care of making sure correct files are replaced.

[order of Windos hotfix's in batch file]

You can install them in any order, but the last line in batch should be qchain.exe. This makes sure all hotfixes get installed in right order.

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?...122120121120120

[Favorite Method]

I use autopatcher a lot. I don't always get to do the install, just the cleanup. autopatcher is much easier than installing manually or using windows update site when unpatched windows is already on machine.

[Operating System Suggestion]

You could also check the nLite forum for a tool to cut unneeded features and services from XP, allowing you to reduce memory usage.

http://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?showforum=89

If not I would go with 98

Better yet, spring for some RAM, it's cheap!

[Favorite Method]

What about IcemanND's script? I like that, very simple and easy to understand and use.

In any case I prefer to integrate them into install over post-install patch.

[compile a c++, source code available]

Sure, we can remove or change anything... messages, Icon, app title, about page. Whatever you want.

As long as we leave a credit "Based on dPilot by Two Pilots Software" with a link to their page I am cool with changing anything else.

You must also make source available to comply with GPL.

Send me a list of mods you would like done.

[compile a c++, source code available]

Here is with no version check

dPilot_no_version_check.zip

[compile a c++, source code available]

Yes, I see problem. Once it has a list it will not download another unless version is incremented. I added path your your server for version.txt. Increment the version number and it should work. If you ALWAYS want to get the list from the server when refresh button pressed I can remove the version check entirely.

dPilot.zip

[Seach Within Textbox Problems]

nice!

That's what I meant when I said seems like should be something better.

Now clear was splitting on chr(13) "CR" only, and chr(10) "LF" was being left over and appearing at start of new line. Learn something every day.

[Seach Within Textbox Problems]

Something is happening because we are splitting on newline, and some lines only contain newline. havent tracked it down exactly.

I tried replacing the newline with a extended ASCII char and did the split on that... seems to work but seems like there should be better way.

 Public Sub Alphabetize(ByVal Value As TextBox)
        frmNotepad.txtNotepad.HideSelection = True
        Dim str1 As String = Value.Text.ToString()
        Dim str2 As System.Text.StringBuilder = New System.Text.StringBuilder
        str2.Append(str1)
        str2.Replace(vbCrLf, Chr(234))
        Dim sArray As String() = str2.ToString.Split(Chr(234))
        Array.Sort(sArray)
        str1 = Join(sArray, vbCrLf)
        frmNotepad.txtNotepad.Text = str1 'Convert Array Back to String and Refill Textbox
        frmNotepad.txtNotepad.HideSelection = False
        CaretRefresh(frmNotepad.txtNotepad) ' Scroll txtNotepad to Caret Position
        SetCharacterPosition() ' Update Line / Character in Status Bar
        SetNoSelection() ' Remove Selection
    End Sub

[compile a c++, source code available]

Saw what you are doing with this, very handy. Looks like it would also make sense to change the caption of the page tab from "Two Pilots Downloads" to "Windows Update Downloads"

I added this here...

[Seach Within Textbox Problems]

I will try to take a look. If you are doing the join manually, the chars must be getting added during either split or sort. Lets first try just split and rejoin with no sort and see if crlf is added. If still bad must be in split. Either we are not using it split function correctly or else need to read textbox lines another way.

[Alias]

And, that relates to Microsoft and computers, HOW?

Did I get in the wrong forum?

<{POST_SNAPBACK}>

Thats why he put it in "General Discussion"

--> "Talk about anything you like in general! (As long as it doesn't fit anywhere else)."

I like the show, but never made a habit out of watching. Mia is a hottie!

[compile a c++, source code available]

Here you are Monsieur Gateux.

(Ici vous êtes Monsieur Gateux.... Is that right?)

[need get back lost partition]

Copious discussion of this here on MSFN.

search for "deleted partition" or "lost partition"

[INDIAN Shairies]

This is very much like a Japanese Haiku.

http://www.toyomasu.com/haiku/

[lost desktop quicklaunch botton]

Make a text document. name it desktop.scf

contents:

 [Shell]
Command=2
IconFile=explorer.exe,3
[Taskbar]
Command=ToggleDesktop

[Whitch programs do you want to install?]

http://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?showforum=86

http://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?showforum=93

[WSH - non modal dialog box]

search this forum for gunsmokingman's HTA scripts.

like the one in this thread. http://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?showtopic=51517&hl=

[Internet Explorer 7 Cr**ed Version]

I think this thread will get closed soon.

<{POST_SNAPBACK}>

Not that it matters, who would even want it? Still not sure how you crack free software.

[Internet Explorer 7 Cr**ed Version]

How do you crack something that is free?

[%~ command variables.]

http://labmice.techtarget.com/articles/batchcmds.htm

%~I  expands %I which removes any surrounding quotes (")

%~fI  expands %I to a fully qualified path name

%~dI  expands %I to a drive letter only

%~pI  expands %I to a path only

%~nI  expands %I to a file name only

%~xI  expands %I to a file extension only

%~sI  expands path to contain short names only

%~aI  expands %I to the file attributes of file

%~tI  expands %I to the date/time of file

%~zI  expands %I to the size of file

%~$PATH:I  searches the directories listed in the PATH environment variable and expands %I to the fully qualified name of the first one found. If the environment variable name is not defined or the file is not found by the search, then this modifier expands to the empty string.

The modifiers can be combined to get compound results:

Variable

(with modifiers)  Description

%~dpI  expands %I to a drive letter and path only

%~nxI  expands %I to a file name and extension only

%~fsI  expands %I to a full path name with short names only

%~dp$PATH:I  searches the directories listed in the PATH environment variable for %I and expands to the drive letter and path of the first one found

%~ftzaI  expands %I to a dir-like output line

[CounterSpy... Detect 2 more spyware than others?!?]

Yes, those look like false positives. There are a number of sites that give info on dlls and exes if you just google them, like the first is a jpg compression lib

http://www.liutilities.com/products/wintas...llibrary/ijl15/

this is easy to confirm, just look on sims install disk.

and the other is part of popcap games. (marginally adware)

[Seach Within Textbox Problems]

Cool. I would be proud to be associated with your project.

I see what you mean about the added crlf's. Tricky since like you said sometimes you don't want to remove whitespace.

Maybe instead of trimming the lines in the array you could use left() function to return all but last two chars (the cr & lf)?