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• L R cannot run vista dvd

  when i got to install vista it comes up in a box 'your computer is unable to use this operating system' what does this mean im afraid these forums are for software development and not technical support. I have to ask you to repost your question to the correct communities: www.microsoft.com/communities Thanks ...Show All

• trevi failed install of vista

  Hi, I recently tried to install vista beta ( whatever number it was....) I couldn't complete the install due to losing my serial number, now when i boot up I'm given an option to start an older version of windows ( XP home) or windows setup rollback. this is becoming a pain because I used to use a cordless keyboard which doesn't become active until windows is booted and i can't select older windows, so now I'm back to a wire keyboard. the main point of my question is How do I get rid of this screen so that XP home boots straight off everything i seem to read about it mentions BCDedit which is not on my system and boot.ini doesn't do the job! any suggestions would be greatly appreciated!!! Thanks in advance!! ...Show All

• JoshKorn Per-application customization of Favorite Links

  Hi, In Windows2003 and older, the common dialog for OpenFile display 5 place-icons in the tray. The list was customizable with some hacks (per-user by adding registry keys and per-application through the use of RegOverridePredefKey() API, as described in http://msdn.microsoft.com/msdnmag/issues/03/03/CuttingEdge ) In Vista the OpenFile dialog was redesigned and it looks like instead of the places icons it displays now the icons/shortcuts from Links folder (e.g. C:\Users\Username\Links). The list is by default customizable per-user by adding more shortcuts into that folder. Is it possible somehow to customize the Favorite Links in Vista per-application E.g. Is is possible to build a custom application that will display icons in ...Show All

• ChrisMentioned User account control

  hi, i want to run my application in elevated mode. i dont have the access to code. so i put a manifest file in the same folder with the .exe which is to be elevated. but the application does not run properly. instead if i switch off the UAC, it works properly. is there any other way to handle the UAC thanks divya There may be some sort of cache involved in the check for the .manifest file you placed next to the executable. If you have a utility similar to 'touch' - to update the 'change date' on the file, that may force the system to see the .manifest the next time you run the exe. David is correct, but one way to cheat without a utility is to move the ...Show All

• chakravarthy_b Was solved

  I created .crd for X509 certificate (using hex thumbprint) but failed to use it to authenticate getting error message box "The certificate associated with this card could not be found" and nothing in event log. The certificate seems properly trusted, has corresponding private key, located in CurrentUser/Personal (in LocalMachine/Personal too) keystore and can be found by >findprivatekey.exe My CurrentUser -t "d47de657fa4902555902cb7f0edd2ba9b05debb8" that was shipped with some of Cardspace sample STSs' So the questions are: 1. Am I doing something wrong 2. Is there some possibility (in present version of .Net3) to do it without SmartCard hardware (maybe some option or tool/emu for testing) 3. What the requirements to SmartCard hardware ...Show All

• Axe22 Sample Simple-STS for RC1+: Cannot retrieve a Managed Card from SampleSecurityTokenService

  I can create *.crd without any problems. However, I’m unable to retrieve the Managed card form SampleSecurityTokenServices. Repro: 1. Run SampleSecurityTokenService.exe to accept Managed Cards 2. Go to https://www.fabrikam.com/CardSpace/Sample.htm and click on “Click here to get the Token” 3. Select the Managed Card and Send. Windows CardSpace tries to contact https://www.fabrikam.com:7001/sample/trust/selfissuedsaml/mex and receives the following error. “Your data could not be retrieved from the Managed Card. Check your network connection and verify you have supplied the correct authenticated credentials." In the Event Log, I found the following message: There was a failure making a WS-Trust e ...Show All

• Danilo80 disk serial number

  Hi, please, how can I get the hard disk's serial number I mean the real number given by the manufacturer (no use of GetVolumeInformation). I need to do it in Windows Vista but without using WMI, it's quite slow. Thanks for any help. Petrolej Take a look at the C++ code from this CodeProject article that uses DiskId32 . Well, thanks very much, but I don't want to use .net neither. Isn't there any API function to get the number In msdn I found http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa368373.aspx for example. But I Don't know how to use it. Can somebody help, please ...Show All

• Bhavtosh Manifest files for Vista

  Hi, For some of the exes of my product, I need administrative privilege. So I embed them in my application with "requireAdministrator". It works fine on Windows Vista and prompts for allow/deny or administrator uname/password as applicable. But the same program has non consistent performance on previous OS versions(XP, 2003 Small business etc). It shows blue screen sometimes for the applications where these manifest files are embedded. One can avoid these blue screens if the embedded manifest file is also present in the same directory as the exe for other OS. I do not want to make my application dependant on the presence of manifest file in the same directory. Is there a way out Is there a tool to find whether an embedde ...Show All

• cdx1 Listening for Activity Closed Events

  I created a custom sequential activity. I would like this activity to listen for it's children's closed events. However, other than the thing I want to happen when the child closes, I do not want to change anything about how a sequential workflow exececutes. Is there an easy way to do this I would prefer not to have to override the entire execute method in order to listen to the close events. Amanda That fixed it. Thank you. Is there a particular reason one way works and the other doesn't Amanda I tried that with the following code for (int child = 0; child < this.EnabledActivities.Count; child++) { Activity branch = this.EnabledActivities[child] as Activity; ...Show All

• Andrea N. PrintFilterPipelineSvc.exe getting closed.

  Hi, My print driver is giving the following problem in RC1 WDK and VISTA. The print filter pipeline ( PrintFilterPipelineSvc.exe) is getting closed. Exception. Print Filter Pipeline Host stopped working and is closed. It may be because of DEP (Data execution prevention), which cannot be disabled for ( PrintFilterPipelineSvc.exe ) in VISTA OS. I am not able to find the exact cause of this problem, because the printdriver was working properly earlier before RC1. When trying to print an image in PhotoGallery I am getting the following error dialog "Windows can't find a print provider for this printer. You may need to re-install the printer and try again." Please help. Regards, Lalit. Hi Zoom, Thanks for your reply. 1. I am using ...Show All

• Boulderdude EFS encryption algorithms in Vista

  Hello I have the following problem with EFS. I use the same certificate since july 2000, and tested it on Windows 2000, 2003 Server, XP and different early builds of Windows Longhorn-Vista. But now, after installed Vista RC1 build, I can't access files from Windows XP or 2003 server, which have been encrypted in Vista. In the file properties it is shown that files were enypted with AES 256 bit using my certificate - but I still cannot access them in Windows XP. I suppose that encription algorithms were changed, but I found no technical documentation at all, and moreover cipher.exe says all files are encrypted using AES 256 bit, algorithm which is also used in Windows XP. Please, don't tell me about wrong certificate - th ...Show All

• Dan Lingman Document Management

  I would like to create a document approval system where I would like to define the path the document would follow. I would choose people who would approve the document in a sequential or parallel basis. Can you suggest what would be my activities here and if this is a valid requirement for a project which uses windows workflow Hi Rahul Yes your scenario is a classic one where Windows Workflow Foundation would fit. You could consider using state machine workflows for your scenario. Start off in a state where your document is not ready for approval. In such a state, model an event such as the author completes the document, and then that would cause you to transition to a state where your document ...Show All

• pmak Error message - "The memory could not be read" - Help please!

  Hello all I'm new here, so I'm not sure whether I'm posting this in the right forum. I have just bought a Toshiba laptop today. I have been playing around with it (always had Windows XP, so Vista is brand new to me!) and everything had been fine till a few minutes ago. I uninstalled Norton (which was already on there) and installed McAfee instead. Installation was okay etc. So I restarted the machine and after the 'welcome' screen (before you arrive at desktop), a pop up box appeared saying something along the lines of "Instruction at 0xc4e9b825 referenced memory at 0xc4e9b825. The memory could not be read". You close that pop-up box and another one appears saying explorer.exe - application error... and that the machine ...Show All

• Gurpreet Singh Gill How to gain full access to all files on the drive, even if read-only?

  I'm developing a security scanner but have an issue. How do you get access to all files on the disc for scanning Even if I'm administrator, suppose there is something lurking in another user's folder. How would I go about detecting it Do I need "backup" priveleges or similar Thanks! ...Show All

• Raybritton sAPO property project compile error

  Hello, guys. I'm trying to compile sAPO property project in WDK 5472. But everytime I do that, I got the error message that "PKEY_Device_FriendlyName" is not defined. I tried to find "PKEY_Device_FriendlyName" in all WDK 5472 files, but nothing is found. Does anybody have the same problem with me and can anybody help to solve this problem Thanks in advance. Sir, A number of the audio samples in the SDK and DDK reference “PKEY_Device_FriendlyName”. In build 5384 this was defined in “propkey.h”, but in build 5456 this moved to “functiondiscoverykeys.h”. In build 5472 it has moved once again to “FunctionDiscoveryKeys_devpkey.h” which is now incl ...Show All