HyperHacker

Can you get to it in Safe Mode or the Recovery Console?

Is there any way to stop those "You are running out of disk space on drive blah:\" messages coming up on certain drives? I'd like to know when my primary storage partition is getting full, but I often fill smaller partitions with backups and copies and such. I really don't need to know when they're full because I never really use them except for backups so I keep track myself. So can this be disabled? (If need be, I wouldn't mind disabling it for all drives, but I'd prefer to keep it enabled for one or two.)

Kind of off-topic but I'm curious... what would Windows do if you had 27 partitions?

Blah, more problems popping up. My combo boxes don't have scrollbars even with the WS_VSCROLL style, and I can type in them. The style I'm using is CBS_HASSTRINGS | CBS_DROPDOWN | WS_CHILD | WS_VISIBLE | WS_VSCROLL. Yay, 100 posts.

Like a glass effect? A translucent light gray should do it.

Supposedly you can remove the log off button by going to HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer and adding a DWORD called StartMenuLogOff with value 1, then rebooting. I haven't tried it though. To rename the buttons I think you'll need to use Resource Hacker. [edit] Tried the reg tweak, it works. No more Log Off button.

Hey, cool, pressing Alt does show them. But they still do it whether I give an owner or not.

It has write access but it cant delete i dont know why <{POST_SNAPBACK}> It just won't do it. That's why it's a demo.

System is the name it uses for kernel processes and such... maybe it gives you kernel-level access? J/k

This is a weird problem I've had come up in a number of different apps I've developed. It always just seems to appear randomly (particularly when I use up a lot of GDI resources) and pretty much never goes away, even after I reboot. The problem is message boxes (from MessageBox()) don't show up. They make a sound, the main window loses focus, a program I have which sits things on top of the active window will jump to where the box should appear, and I can activate the buttons with Y, N, Escape, Space, etc but the box doesn't actually show up on the screen. It won't let me click the box's parent window, as expected, but I can click other children. Switching to another app makes it impossible to get the box back into focus and so I have to kill the process. The same happens if I don't specify a parent window. It's not appearing under the window, either. I've never seen any other app do this, but it happens to pretty much all of mine and I can't tell why. And this place needs a frowning post icon that isn't mad.

I wouldn't want to try dual-booting an experimental OS while developing it. A bug could easily wreck your partitions. And imagine how tedious it would be to have to reboot every time you wanted to try something?

Confirmed working on WinXP Pro Corporate SP2.

Pro works fine for me.

Sounds like the install disc is wrecked.

Sounds like one of those random Windows things. I had a similar problem; the Game Controllers panel just would not open no matter what I did, until I reinstalled. And I've noticed a bug that appeared out of nowhere one day and has since survived several reinstalls and replacement of every component except the CD drive; sometimes the Start menu doesn't redraw properly, leaving large black spots. Windows is just like that. It 'erodes'.

The free version doesn't write.

Y'all gather round and listen to the tale of my experience with Western Digital. I got a new 250GB HD for Christmas, and plugged it in and all that. I booted it up and checked out the entry in the BIOS: WDC [some number] 137GB. 137? No... So I looked at the manual, and it said that in cases like this, I should use the included controller card instead of connecting it to the motherboard. Except one problem... there was no controller card. OK, next idea... supposedly the installer CD can install a hack to work around this. Great, I'll just put the disc in, run setup... and it says I have no CD drive. While it's running from a CD. -.- With no other options, I looked up the tech support number in the manual. There's a single 1-800 number listed. I dial it up and immediately get put on hold... for 15 minutes. Now I don't mind having to wait that bad... the part that drives me nuts is that literally every minute they repeat the same annoying line "please stay on the line, your call is important, blah blah blah" until you've gone completely looney. So 15 minutes later, someone answers. I tell them the problem and they inform me that I called the wrong number! (Gee, so many numbers to choose from - ONE. I can see how I would have made that mistake. ) So they redirect me to some other number, not bothering to tell me what it is in case I need to call back. Back on hold for ANOTHER 25 MINUTES. Finally, someone picks up... I ask about the missing controller card, and they say that they haven't included those in a few years. How lazy are these people that they stopped producing these a few YEARS ago and still haven't updated the manuals? The CD? He has no clue. He tells me to go to their website (don't you just love it when computer tech support asks you to use the Internet to get your computer working?) to download a smaller version that runs off a floppy disk. So I go to the website... it's blank. Sure, it works on their end, but I see an empty white screen. I hang up and find the download page myself via Google. Download, write to disk, reboot... Disk error. Now, this is the part that really ticked me off. I put in a second disk and do a full format followed by checking each sector. No problems, but the program conks out at 95%. It takes TWELVE disks to get this **** thing to work. After finally getting it running, it asks what OS I'm using. Since I haven't actually installed one yet, I choose WinXP with no service pack. Does it continue on its merry way? Noooo. Does it install that workaround it's supposed to install to support >137GB HDs? Oh no no no. It tells me that WinXP without a service pack can't handle a drive this big. -.- So I decided screw it, I'll just make 125GB partitions. It won't even let me do that! I have to restart and say I'm using SP2 just so I can install anything. And just to make things that extra little bit annoying, I can't even choose my partition size. It just has some crappy, inaccurate percentage thing. But as long as we're discussing tech support, I may as well add that Cogeco is one of the best I've dealt with. They rarely put you on hold for more than 5 minutes, the automated voice recording - WHICH YOU CAN SKIP - tells you if there are any known outages (though it's often wrong ), and the people actually speak English and really know what they're talking about. Also, I dunno about tech support but I noticed HP sucks at making computers (or at least they did before they merged with Compaq). I had one and it screwed up everything. I'm not sure exactly what the problem was but programs would always just have random little bugs in them, as if the RAM were faulty, but it wasn't. I also had to add a new fan soon after I got it because it was overheating. It had a Celeron and came pre-loaded with WinME. And to top it all off, guess what it had for a power supply? 100 watts. One hundred. (Come to think of it, that's probably why nothing worked right...) Oh and speaking of crap... if you're going to have a limit on smilies (quite pointless imo, but whatever) would it hurt to at least say what that limit is? And really, five is too much?

I made a crapload of useful command line programs. They're here.

I'm developing a program and I've noticed it has some GDI memory leaks. Unfortunately, at times if I've miscoded something these leaks can eat up all available graphic memory in seconds, forcing me to reboot. Is there some way to 'flush' GDI, that is, get rid of all the unused handles and such the program creates so I don't have to reboot all the time?

All the time. It loads fast and can do screenshots and simple editing. I just wish I didn't have to type file extensions manually for them to be lowercase.

Alright well I remade the install CD and did it all again, and it worked but still didn't turn out well. It still asks for my key and I know I entered it right. Once again many tweaks didn't work (Start menu pops up on first boot, Recycle Bin isn't renamable, etc) and I got several reports of missing system files during the install. The languages I chose were not the ones I ended up with. I basically removed everything except Canadian English and Japanese (and for some reason US English wasn't even on the list). I ended up with US English, Canadian French and Canadian Multilingual... no support for Japanese at all (had to go into the regional options and install it all manually) which gave more missing file errors. Worst of all it now thinks I don't have a sound card. The card is listed in Device Manager and doesn't show a problem, but under Properties -> Audio Devices -> Audio Controller -> Properties again it says "driver is enabled but not functioning properly", and there are two options with no label. O_o The same shows for all audio devices.

After using nLite to remove a lot of stuff it seems like I have half a computer. A lot of the tweaks don't seem to have worked. There is nothing on my desktop (I set it to show My Computer and Recycle Bin), the Start menu still popped up, and it still asked for a CD key. (I may have typed it wrong when I made the install... it really should verify that.) And because of some unexpected dependencies I can't change my resolution! >_< And isn't there some way to not have these crappy drive letters? Every single time I install they get shifted around. My CD drive is G: and Windows is D: now, wtf?

Thought I mentioned that. Yeah, that was a given.

Alright, my Windows install crapped out and got corrupted somehow, so I figured as long as I need to reinstall I'd try one of these customized install things, maybe some case mods, etc. So what kind of tweaks would you recommend? (Here are some detailed specs. It's a piece of crap, yes, but I can't afford anything better at the moment. ) I figure I'll try 'slip-streaming' SP2 (if that's the right term... having it pre-installed on the disc) and maybe check out some alternate shells. Explorer drives me looney. Just wondering what suggestions and ideas people might have (besides getting a new computer ).

Awesome. I can spend it, then print out more to bail myself out of jail when I get arrested for counterfeiting! Wait... something about that idea seems flawed...