HyperHacker

I need to get the width of a particular cell of a table in Javascript. The problem is, the cell doesn't have a width specified; I just set the table to 90% of the page's width. Is there a way to do this? (Don't care if it doesn't work in IE...)

That might work, but it'd be rather confusing. Maybe I've accidentally enabled some option that does this? A problem in MinGW perhaps?

Odd... Are you running it from cmd.exe, command.com, Explorer, or some other shell?

I need the argument to be literally '*.*', rather than for the shell to supply a list of files.

Basically, it's doing exactly what the command prompt is doing for me - finding files that match the pattern. Thing is, it has (or will have, if I can get it working ) directory recursion, so I would need to do the matching manually to get the files in deeper directories.

I mean using the left button. And Copy is indeed set as default...

I've discovered an odd and frankly rather stupid behaviour of XP's command prompt that's making life difficult. Suppose I have a program named program.exe in a folder, along with the files textfile.txt and image.bmp. If I go to a command line and type "program *.com", the arguments to program.exe are "program" and "*.com". However, if I type "program *.*", the arguments are "program", "image.bmp", "program.exe" and "textfile.txt"! Apparently the command prompt will replace file patterns (* and ?) with any filenames that match them... This makes thins rather difficult as my program needs to know the pattern itself, not the files that match it. Can this be disabled or something?

Here's a batch file that can do the same (won't back files up though): @echo off copy /y %1 %systemroot%\system32 copy /y %1 %systemroot%\system32\dllcache

Apply To All doesn't do it in this case. Making a new folder might, but then wouldn't that folder no longer be the default My Pictures folder? I recall trying that with My Music and ended up not having one at all. (I still had a folder full of music, but the various My Music links wouldn't lead to it anymore.) I really wouldn't even mind if I had to completely disable the Thumbnails view. (Maybe something can change it to be the same as another view?) It tends to crash (as in BSOD) my computer anyway due to low video memory. >_<

Not exactly. I don't want it applied to all folders, just a select few and/or the 'Music' template.

I'm wondering how I can copy all the view options from one folder to another. That is, I go into one folder, choose Details view, select a few attributes, and line up the columns; I want to apply all of this to a few others. (Prefferably, all folders with the 'Music' view, but I could live with having to apply it to individual ones.) Is there a way to do this? I'd try copying the desktop.ini, but there isn't one.

I assume you're a network admin? You could add some commands to a login script to do it, or at least just put them in a batch file on the server (you'd have to manually download it to each system and run it though). You can use attrib +h to hide a folder. Or if you have one of those USB memory sticks that supports autorun, you could use it. Just stick it in and let it do its job.

If the problem is RAM or the CPU, you'd probably see similar problems doing other things. Is there another OS on the system, and does it act normal? A PSU problem or overheating would usually result in unexpected shutdowns/restarts, though they could cause other problems; you'd probably notice that the system works better when it's been off for a while in this case. The only other things that come to mind are the media - the discs you're copying to and from. Since you've apparently tried the HD already, are you sure the CD drive works right, and the CD isn't defective?

That's the idea, yeah. I'm rather fed up with Explorer's bugs.

Thanks, some helpful stuff. Some questions about a few though: 2: Aren't all parent windows set to have the desktop as their parent already? MSDN always refers to them as children of the desktop. O_o 6: That doesn't seem to cover standby or hibernate. They seem to be rather elusive, shutdown.exe doesn't do them either. 7: What I meant by this is if I have a file open and another program modifies it, I need to know what section was modified (or at least some notice of the change). I think just checking the access date resets it. (Brilliant design! ) 8: I'm not sure that'll work. The idea is that when this program is running, explorer.exe won't be at all. It only needs to work for XP though. 11: Not sure why you included that, but yeah. O_o Know a way to do it through code at all?

You may notice when you drag a file from one drive to another, the default action is to copy the file rather than move it. How can I make move the default action? I like things to be consistent, not to mention I move a lot more than I copy.

How do you do that? I want to do this with the Windows Classic theme, or at least move the icon to the far right side of the button.

Look through the list for the image... If it's not there, try adding one as #10. Back up of course.

Awesome! Is there a similar method for boot screens? (Or can Windows replace its own kernel on-disk? )

I have this problem with a regular install CD. I found that if you leave it for a long time (not sure how long, I left ) it eventually starts some 'welcome to windows' thing. I just reboot and it works fine.

I have a really annoying problem. In whatever folder I designate as My Pictures, the default view is always thumbnails no matter what I do to try and make it something else. Not only do I not like this view but it often causes my video card to crash. Is there a way to force it to use a different view for this folder or disable Thumbnail view entirely?

Nobody here uses AVG? It does an awesome job and it's free.

The basic idea of hacking is either tricking your computer into running program code it shouldn't be, or bypassing the authentication system (whether by finding a flaw in it or just guessing the password). What they see depends what they're doing. If they're logged in to something like a remote control system it's probably no different than using the computer normally. If they're using an exploit to run code then they'll only see whatever output the code sends back to them, which could be anything from a full remote control app to a simple command line.

Well you can run it by hitting Win+R and typing sndvol32... which also brings up the idea of renaming the file.

No, actually, I downloaded the video itself and opened it. Nothing happens. Asta, is that really how it's done? I tried to get proper Japanese input on my computer and was surprised to see that the only methods available really sucked. One, you type the sounds out using English letters, and the other makes a bit more sense, each key maps to one Japanese letter; but with both you have to pull down a menu and change modes to type Katakana (the Shift key types uppercase English ), and said menu is horribly buggy.