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  1. HyperHacker
    You'd probably have to replace another string. Most likely either "%s - %s" or "%1 - %2".
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    A lot of BIOSes will reboot the system if the CPU overheats or something gets mis-connected (like plugging in the monitor cable backward).
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    If you just plan to load and run files from a network, you might be able to do it from DOS or Win98.
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    Yeah, I disabled the "send error report" a long time ago. I just get a message box. Disabling the service hasn't changed that; I guess it's only for sending reports. (So then why's it running? >_>)
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    Eh, I don't have Excel... Nice list up there too but I don't want to just disable everything without knowing what all it does. That caused problems last time, like when I disabled RPC, a lot of installers wouldn't run. I disabled that error report message though; it's just a "blahblah has encountered an error and needs to close" message with Close and Debug buttons. Would that still show up, or would the program just close or something?
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    Browsing through the services, I noticed an "Error Reporting Service". What happens if I disable this? Also how can I add a service? I see a few added by programs I installed.
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    Put it on the side of the screen.
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    Or get a keyboard with a volume control on it. Windows should recognize most of the extra buttons without any drivers.
  9. HyperHacker
    These errors usually just mean you found a bug, especially if both numbers are the same. IE and Firefox both use Java at times, so that's a likely culprit.
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    <html> <head> <title>This is a web page!</title> </head> <body> Hi! Welcome to my almost completely blank web page!<br> A second line!<br> <b>Bold</b> text! <i>Italic</i> text! <u>Underlined</u> text! </body> </html> HTML is pretty darn easy, and doing it by hand is the only way to ensure it looks exactly how you want.
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    I want a program of mine to periodically send some info to a server, telling various things like how often it's used and for how long, as some other programs (such as Winamp) do. Of course people will want this to be anonymous, but I can't think of a good way to make it so. All I really want to know is how many people are using it and how often the average person uses it. I don't need to know how often each individual person uses it. However, if I'm to maintain an accurate count of how many people use it, then when it reports that it's just been installed, I need to know whether it's already been installed once before on that system. (I can't just have it report when it's uninstalled, as this won't happen if the user doesn't use the uninstaller, such as if they format their HD.) The problem is, the only way I can think of to know if the person installing it has already done so before is to keep track of which systems it's been installed on, identifying them by IP address or some unique ID generated from hardware information. But if I do this, it's no longer anonymous.
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    I think in VB6, the Timer control had a 55ms granularity. Not sure if .Net is the same. IIRC, using the API SetTimer() function, you could get as low as 10ms. (Not sure if that's the best it can do, or if VB's overhead just prevents it from being any faster.) BTW, you might want to look at GetTickCount(), which returns the system's uptime in milliseconds. (It's only 32 bits, so it's not really useable if you actually want the uptime, but it's great for timing. Just ensure you don't get caught in a loop waiting for it to be >4,294,967,295, because it never will be.)
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    Mine always takes a minute or two to get past this. Make sure you give it at least 5 minutes or so.
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    I'd like to try this myself with a 1GB SD card, such that I can 'copy' my Windows install (all settings and the most important apps) to it, plug it in some other computer, and use it there. Is this possible at all, assuming I find some way to smash it all into 1GB? BTW, make sure if you do this that the page file isn't on the USB stick. Flash memory like the kind they use can only take a few hundred thousand writes before it dies. Having the page file on it will take it out quick.
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    The full default path is C:\WINDOWS\system32;C:\WINDOWS;C:\WINDOWS\System32\Wbem Try adding "SET path=" in front of that (no spaces around the equal sign!) and then see if you can run things. If so, you need to set the path to that in the System control panel.
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    NTFS is nearly if not equally as fast as FAT32, much more resistant to corruption and fragmentation, has encryption and compression built in, and supports larger volumes and files (FAT32's file limit is a puny 4GB). There are plenty of tools that allow you to recover files on NTFS from within Windows, Linux or DOS. The only real reason to use FAT32 is if you need compatibility with systems that don't support NTFS.
  17. HyperHacker
    Control Panel -> System -> System Restore; click the drive, click Settings, and turn it off.
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    I like to keep the Volume Control (sndvol32) program running so I can quickly see the volume level. However, when it's running, no other program is able to change the volume except for the volume control keys on the keyboard. Since I use my computer as a makeshift alarm clock, I need the program that does this to be able to adjust the volume as well. The simple solution would be to close the Volume Control. However after I do this, not only can no other program adjust the volume (keyboard still can) but Volume Control won't open: Nor will Winamp play anything: My sound/audio device control panel shows no playback, recording or MIDI devices, all of which exist. The "AC97 Audio Control Panel" my sound drivers added won't open. All the devices are shown and said to be working properly in the device manager. Strangest of all my system sounds (when an error message appears, program opens or closes etc) still play. Only way to get any other sound to play is to reboot.
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    If the boot process is overheating it, then after it freezes, immediately reboot and check the temperature. That would tell you whether it's heating up. Idling in DOS or the BIOS or running Memtest won't really do much, as the CPU load is very low. Also, what was the error you get in Linux? Did you try removing all network cards (since safe mode without networking works)? And have you tried poking at BIOS settings; turn off advanced features, turn down CPU speeds if possible, or just reset to default settings? I found my computer runs really, really slow if I just change too many BIOS settings, and stays that way until I reload the defaults.
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    I'm developing a forum system in PHP, and so far everything's been going well, but I can't seem to get it to delete rows from multiple tables. The posts on the forum occupy 3 tables; one stores information such as who posted it when and what thread it's in, one stores the text, and one keeps track of any edits that are made to the post (who edited and when). These 3 tables are named, logically enough, posts, post_text and post_edits. What I'm trying to do is delete all posts in a thread. To do this I need to delete all records in posts, post_text and post_edits that correspond to that thread. Only posts stores information about which thread the post is in, so based on the MySQL documentation (I'm stuck with V4.0 at the moment BTW), I came up with this: "DELETE posts, post_text, post_edits FROM posts, post_text, post_edits WHERE posts.thread = $thread[id]" This simply doesn't seem to do anything. It executes successfully but no rows are deleted from any table, even though the thread IDs match. Similarly, this query doesn't seem to do anything either: "UPDATE forums SET views=views+$delforum[views], posts=posts+$delforum[posts], threads=threads+$delforum[threads] WHERE id=" . intval($moveto) Even though the ID exists and the values being added are not zero; they remain unchanged. In the first query I suspect it may be because post_edits is empty (editing isn't implemented yet), but I can't figure this one out at all... Other queries made within the same function work fine.
  21. HyperHacker
    You put the value returned by <%=now%> into some Javascript code which updates some text on the screen every second. Better yet, Javascript is able to get the user's system time.
  22. HyperHacker
    But then Explorer would just close silently. You could always try another shell. Also if your system can handle it, Azureus is a great BT client (albeit hard to spell). Unfortunately it's written in Java, so it'll eat up huge amounts of resources, especially being such an intricate program to begin with.
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    Deep Freeze does this, yes, but it adds overhead itself rerouting all file access to temporary copies (especially on first access, when it makes the copy). This also means eating up a fair bit of disk space if you open large frozen files for write access. Plus last I checked it can't selectively protect folders, only create a small unprotected 'fake' partition (a drive which is actually the contents of a folder, which isn't protected when accessed via the virtual drive). Not especially good if your keep your files on the same partition as your OS (though you shouldn't). Another bit of annoyance is you have to reboot to turn it on or off. There may be other programs that do the same, that work better for this purpose. (And are less expensive.) BTW, speaking of memory leaks... I just rebooted a few minutes ago as my computer was really starting to bog down, between Azureus and Firefox using 150MB of RAM each. I noticed in Process Explorer that a lot of programs only had 2-3MB of private bytes but 60-100MB of virtual memory! Closing these only freed up as much as their private size though, so maybe it's a PE bug... also one instance of svchost.exe was hogging up another 150MB of private bytes! I closed it and it respawned as normal, using only 20MB. O_o
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    You're supposed to close it by typing Exit, but I don't think it should do that... Mine doesn't, but then that may be because of various tweaks.
  25. HyperHacker
    I have a keyboard with special keys such as Print and Search, but I don't have the proper driver for it. It works fine, but Windows has assigned special tasks to some of the keys; for example, pressing Search opens Calculator. How can I disable this? I don't want to actually disable the keys (as I plan to write my own program to respond to them), but I want to prevent these programs from being launched when they're pressed. Title Edited - Please follow new posting rules from now on. --Zxian
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