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Hi, this depends on the Application/OS-Component that uses the *.sys File. Unter MS-DOS for example there are two widely used *.sys files: config.sys: Textfile with configuration Informations io.sys: Part of the Operating System with Binary Informations There is no File content specification for *.sys Files. They are used in different situations with different content. But most of the time they are Binary Files which contains executable code (for example the *.sys files in your system32 folder on Windows) For what exactly do you need to know this information? Maybe i can tell you then more. Bye, Egon

Hi, recently i set up my new Notebook which comes with a built in Multi-Card-Reader (SD, MMC, SM...). Now the Logon Screen not just only states "Press Ctrl-Alt-Del to Logon" but also "or insert Card". What does this mean? Are i am now able to create a SD/MMC/whatever Card and use it instead of entering my username/password? If yes, can someone give me a hint on how to do this? Thanks and Bye, Egon

Hi! i cannot tell you if this company is right for you, but wireless broadband access works very well. I know people who made 11Mbit/sec connections over ordinary 802.11B Equipment using a Radio relay link at the distance of about 75 KM. If there are no Mountains, or whatever between you and the sending antenna there should be now problem. Bye, Egon

Hi, the maximum length of a 100 MBit Ethernet connection should be 100M between NIC and Switch. Maybe this is your problem? Does your switch has a managment port? if so, try to find out if there are problems with the packets he sends (eg. collisions, frame errors). Bye, Egon

Use Ethereal or WinDump Ethereal: www.ethereal.com WinDump: www.winpcap.org/windump Bye, Egon

Hi, i don't know exactly what you want, but note when you are editing binary files the replaced strings must have the same size as the original (or lower). Normally when you open a Binary file in a Hexeditor and search for the String, you will notice that the String is ended by Hexcode '00'. This is because Strings normally are terminated by Zero in most programming languages. If you want to change the String "Windows" to "ABC" you have to write a '00' to the Position where the 'd' was in the original String. Was this what you wanted to know? Egon

These memory Modules appear to be a 8MB (2M x 32) 72 Pin PS/2 Module. In former times these memory modules where used to equip 486's and Pentium-I's. Today they are mostly used in HP Laser Printers for extending the memory usable for printing large Documents. I would go to buy them at ebay.com they have plenty of them. Bye, Egon

Even if it's not the newest card, i would prefer a GeForce 4200 or Radeon 9600 if you do not need full DX9 Features. A comparison made by myself shows out that the GF4200 performs slightly better than the GF5200 - don't know why and if its my setup. Just my 2 cents. Egon

Hi, i currently try to write to a other's process standard input. I am using the OpenProcess Function and then the DuplicateHandle Function to get the Handle of the other's stdin. Below is my non-working code: #include <stdio.h> #include <stdlib.h> #include <windows.h> int main( int argc, char* argv[] ) { HANDLE hProcess, hMyProcess; HANDLE hInput; unsigned int nProcess; if( argc != 2 ) { fprintf( stderr, "illegal arg count\n" ); exit( -1 ); } else { nProcess = atoi( argv[1] ); } fprintf( stdout, "Attaching pro Process %d ... ", nProcess ); if(( hProcess = OpenProcess( PROCESS_ALL_ACCESS, TRUE, ( DWORD ) nProcess )) != NULL ) { fprintf( stdout, "OK\n" ); } else { fprintf( stdout, "FAILED\n" ); exit( -1 ); } hMyProcess = GetCurrentProcess(); fprintf( stdout, "Trying to get STDIN Handle from Process ... " ); if( ! DuplicateHandle( hProcess, GetStdHandle( STD_INPUT_HANDLE ), hMyProcess, &hInput, 0, TRUE, DUPLICATE_SAME_ACCESS )) { fprintf( stdout, "FAILED\n" ); fprintf( stdout, "%08X\n", GetLastError()); exit( -1 ); } else { fprintf( stdout, "OK\n" ); } CloseHandle( hInput ); return 0; } Does anyone see why this doesn't work? Do i have any logical errors? Thanks, Egon

Hi, yes thats what i am looking for. Thank you very much. Egon

Hi, do you added the correct bootsector when created the disk? In the unattended guide (http://unattended.msfn.org) there is a description on how to us e the tool "cdimagegui" which creates a bootable iso image - which you can then burn with nero. bye, egon

Hi there, hakeem5454, below is a very short instruction on how to use the $OEM$ folders. If you want to know more, read the unattended guide - it's worth reading it... 1.) Create a folder called $OEM$ in the same level as your i386 folder is 2.) In this folder create a Folder called "$$" - all inside this folder will be copied to der %SystemRoot% Directory (e.g. C:\WINDOWS) 3.) If you need it, create a "$1" folder - all inside this folder will be copied to %SystemDrive% (e.g. C:\) 4.) In your winnt.sif File, add the following option to the [unattended] Section: OemPreinstall="YES" Done. Bye, Egon

Hi there, with v4 of the Microsoft Windows Update there was a option called "?corporate=true" which gave you the ability to download hotfixes and other patches for any of the MS Operating Systems. Unfortunately this option has gone in v5... I currently no longer have a Win2K OS running, so i can't use v4 anymore. Does anyone knows a way of downloading hotfixes with v5 without installing the SUS Server? Bye, Egon

Hi, no it works by retrieving the window handle of the current command line window and deleting the proper Items from the Menu (DeleteMenu) Bye, Egon

Hi, thanks for your reply. i've found a tool called "noclose.exe" which hides all close options from a open command line window. The tool itself is attached to this message. Bye, Egon noclose.exe

Hello, does anyone knows a way of telling a running program to ignore the WM_CLOSE message? I need this for one of our Server Application which is running with about 30 open Command Boxes - and i want to prevent anyone from klicking the "X" accidently. Bye, Egon

Hi there, Does anyone know if there is a performance impact in Windows 2000/2003 when a Application uses many, many Threads? We have a Java based Client-Server Application which on the Server Side consists of about 40 concurrent running Java Processes - most of them are running with 100-200 Threads per Process and about 4 Processes are using about 1700 Threads each. The entire Java Application runs with approximatly 7000-8000 Threads. Performance of the Application was never very good, but we want to find out why. Would it be possible that the Context switching between the many running threads could be a performance hole? The spec of the machine running the Application is: HP DL580 Server Windows 2000AS/2003EE OS (some servers run 2000, some 2003) 4 XEON's with HT 6 GIG of RAM /PAE enabled Application uses JRE 1.3.1 Each server serves about 300 concurrent users Bye, Egon

Hi, thanks digitalfrost, works perfect! Bye, Egon

Hi, is it possible to disable the command output redirection in the command-line shell? I have the problem that i need to start the "iexplore.exe" with a URL as parameter which contains the ">" Character. Example: iexplore.exe http://10.138.23.210/cgi-bin/unidoc.exe?ACTION=ACTION_QUERY_DB&QUERYSTRING=(1367)%20HPUX:%20'ksrsifs2.health.local'%20ERROR%20Message:%20May%2017%2008:23:57%20syslog:%20"Schema:%20PAG%20ew_ag_pascom_rufn_i_01%20Status:->%20keine%20Inbound%20Events%20im%20Beobachtungszeitraum%20E When the above line is started from within the Start->Run everything works as expected, but when i open a command line shell the string is truncated after the ">" and a file is written. This is what i want to prevent. Any ideas? Thanks, Egon