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• Prasad Selladurai Unable to open the c:\ using create file in vista

  Hi, I am unable to open the c:\ drive by using createFile in vista. The program that i wrote is file working on the WinXP and it is not working on Vista. I am using VC++.NET 2003 for my application development. I get this error when I give a call to Createfile API "The system cannot find the file specified" Thread moved to the appropiate forum. I wrote a program (user mode) that writes a file under %programfiles%MyCo/MyApp per run. The person who runs this app is a member of Admin. My app works fine on XP. When the program runs from Vista (Ultimate), no file is written. I looked into debugger, all my call of CreateFile(...) and WriteFile(...) go through. But no physical file ...Show All

• Deveyus LAN Driver problem

  Hi all. Finally yesterday finished downloaded Vista x64 Ultimate for my pc, it is build 5600 rc1. Upon getting into vista and being very impressed with what ive seen i started to install the drivers and such, now i couldnt install the drivers using vista so i set the compatibility for Windows XP SP2 and the drivers installed fine Unfortunately under the network area in vista it says unidentified network and the onboard lan cannot connect to my router. whenever i try to renew my ip address nothing happens and the private 169 address is given to the adaptor. Im using an Asrock 939Dual-SATA2 - This has a ULi M1695 chipset. Does anyone have an idea where a vista compatible driver is for this chipset Any help appreciated! ...Show All

• Raulsassaa Tutorials on WF and WPF

  Good Morning Fellow Questers I’m looking for help on two things. 1. The location of tutorial or sample code that use WF and WPF together. 2. Insights, facts or guesses on why there is so little MS resources devoted to using WF and WPF together. Thanks and I’m looking forward to your response Make it a great day Mike Greenway You can getting running in VS also by doing the following: · Right click on the solution in the Solution Explorer and choose Set StartUp Projects. · Select Multiple startup projects. · Set the Action to Start for the service and client projects. · Make sure the projects are order service on top, client in the middle and workflow on t ...Show All

• Can-Ann Run As Administrator in Vista

  I have an application that requires Backup and Restore Privileges. The application enables these privileges and works find in XP but, when executed normally as an Administrator in Vista, the application fails. The Call to AdjustTokenPrivilege fails with ERROR_NOT_ALL_ASSIGNED. However, when I right click and run as administrator the call succeeds and the apps works. This brings me to my questions: 1. Why would an app not run with the privileges of the person that executes it (an administrator user in this case).... Vista Security 2. How can I work around this I would imagine there is a local security setting the I can change to allow the app to run with the privileges of the user I would be curious if this setting exists but, it ...Show All

• Mike! Questions about PSPE - promotable transactions

  This post is in response to Florin Lazar's weblog of 5/17/2005 at http://blogs.gotdotnet.com/florinlazar/archive/2005/05/17/418595.aspx Thanks for the informative article, Florin! As a provider writer, I am interested in finding out more about promotable transactions. Let's say you have two connections: c1 and c2, and the following scenario: Connection c1 registers as a PSPE transaction, and it succeeds, so we have a local transaction. Next, connection c2 comes along and registers as a PSPE transaction. Because there's already a transaction going, c2's PSPE enlistment fails, so two things need to happen: (1) c1 needs to be promoted to a distributed transaction, and (2) c2 needs to enlist as a distributed transaction. Q1: Is the ...Show All

• I Mrus 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

• ricky1980 Possible to run ActiveX Control with administrative rights?

  Hello, Is there any way to write an ActiveX control such that it can execute code with administrative privileges within IE7 on Vista and not undergo any sort of virtualization Let's assume that the control is signed and that the user will accept any and all security prompts (that is, the user really wants to run the control in high access mode). If there is a way to do this, can this be done even if the user is using Protected Mode This is a scenario in which the user trusts the site completely and will accept all prompts. Internet Explorer will not neccessarily be running as Administrator, but let's assume the currently logged on user is a member of the Administrators group. I believe this is a common case for many ISVs that u ...Show All

• SainTLove Timers in a Workflow hosted in ASP.Net

  Hi I'm building a web based workflow application and need to monitor the progress of the requests entered into the application and if a request hasn't been actioned after a period of time; send a notification email. I've read several posts and bloggs that state the Persistence service is responsible for monitoring Workflows that are in an idle state and then responding to delays within the Workflow that expire. I realise that because of the nature of ASP.Net the runtime is unloaded after each call, so I'm confused as to how, if the service isn't instantiated, it can perform this task. Thanks for any help. DB Thanks Matt I'm going to write a service based around this snippet and a timer (wi ...Show All

• MA2005 data execution prevention

  hi, data excution prevention is not allowing me to use windows live messenger, i have tried to disable it for windows messenger but it wont allow me to, anyone know how i can disable data excution prevention on windows vista thanks for any help. Lorettablonde wrote: I just bought an HP Pavilion PC, it came with Vista Prem, I have never encountered this error before in my old XP, and I am a newbie so please be kind and no too technical, I am just learning . My IE will not open at all, when I try it says it is closed and I will be "notified" (lol) when a fix is found, it says DEP closed it down. So, why is that Is there something already bad on here I did every scan available and nothing cam ...Show All

• straightener can an app in protected mode use filemapping?

  Hi, My ActiveX(which runs in protected mode) does CreateFileMapping(,,"Local\\MyMap",,) and spawns another process with ShellExecuteEx the spawned process tries OpenFileMapping(,,"Local\\MyMap",,) but it fails. I tested opening the file mapping from the same activeX and it succeeds. Is there a special setting that allows seperate process(could be low/medium/high privileged) to open the file mapping object Thank you I think these links will answer your questions on PM Take special note of IEInstall.exe and IEUser.exe There isn't a lot of great information on these, but they shouldn't be to difficault to use. To IE7 using an ActiveX & protection mode: http://msdn.microsoft.com/ ...Show All

• Steph_Job0 ExternalDataEventArgs NullReferenceException

  Hello, I’m currently developing a simple application to get started in Worflow Foundation. In the workflow I have two ExternalEventHandlerActivities and in my Interface I’ve declared them: event EventHandler < ExternalDataEventArgs > NumeroAprovado; event EventHandler < ExternalDataEventArgs > NumeroRejeitado; When a try to raise the event in the workflow I get a NullReferenceException. I really do not know what is missing. (The first parameter is null and as I saw in one sample provided by Microsoft it is not a problem). Guid guid_workflow = this .instanciaWorkflow.InstanceId; ExternalDataEventArgs evento = new ExternalDataEventArgs (guid_workflow); numeroAprovadoCall( null , new ExternalDa ...Show All

• hlj16 Problem with SetTokenInformation (cannot set session id information)

  Hi, I have a service that works fine under XP and that needs to launch a process in a given session (not necessarily 0). No communication needed, I just have to launch (inject) the process in the user's session. This is done as follows: OpenProcessToken(GetCurrentProcess(), TOKEN_QUERY | TOKEN_ADJUST_PRIVILEGES | TOKEN_ADJUST_SESSIONID | TOKEN_ADJUST_DEFAULT | TOKEN_ASSIGN_PRIMARY | TOKEN_DUPLICATE, &hToken)) LookupPrivilegeValue(NULL, SE_TCB_NAME, &tp.Privileges[0].Luid)) AdjustTokenPrivileges(hToken, FALSE, &tp, 0, NULL, 0) SetTokenInformation(hToken, TokenSessionId, &m_dwActiveSession, sizeof(DWORD)) CreateProcessAsUser(hToken,... Under Vista, everything works fine except SetTokenInformation that ret ...Show All

• Prabu Ramaraj Compatibility question, yes ran the test but still some questions.

  Hello i would really appreciate it if someone could help me on telling if my video card and some other stuff such as processor could run vista. also I plan on buying 2gb of ram. here are my pc stats. RAM at the moment I only have 512 mb of ram. but I hope to buy 2more GB or ram. Motherboard Biostar Geforce 6100-M9 NVIDIA Socket 939 MicroATX Motherboard / Audio / PCI Express / 10/100 Ethernet LAN / USB 2.0 / Serial ATA / RAID here is the link to image and a more detailed report Processor AMD Athlon(tm) 64 Processor 3700+ Graphics Card nVIDIA GeForce 6100 this was a built in graphics card that was built on to the motherboard I mainly need to know if my graphics card and processor will handle it since I will upgrade my ram. ...Show All

• rtaiss Audio Interface devices that work with Vista?

  I currently have an M-Audio FireWire Solo that worked great in Windows XP with SONAR but currently there are no drivers for it in Vista. Does anyone know and/or have tested any (firewire) audio interface devices for recording music in Vista that have actually worked If so, please let me know ASAP I need something to record guitar and vocals. THANKS! Joseph im afraid these are the incorrect forums for your question. These forums are for software development only. The best place to ask your question would be over at the appropriate communities: www.microsoft.com/communities Thanks! ...Show All

• Tom Janssen why the vista XPSDRV printer sample can not print? the result has 0 bytes.

  I install the vista system, and WDK. Then build the print sample (XPSDrv Sample) and install this printer. But when I use this printer to print a sapmle document (such as a notepad document), the print result file(*.prn) has 0 bytes. upgrade your WDK to build 5456. In the install folder of WDK(\WinDDK\5384\src\print\XPSDrvSmpl\install),the config file "xdsmpl-PipelineConfig.xml" has lower case "input" and "output" for filter dll's.But it should be upper case as expected by filte pipeline. Snippet in config XML is: <Filter dll = "XDWMark.dll" clsid = "{D647D658-BEF6-415f-AFAC-070D64074C5D}" nam ...Show All