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Gee, thanks Microsoft JohnnyNin21-Jul-02 18:07 JohnnyNin 21-Jul-02 18:07  I wrote some software and tested it on about 5 different PCs, all with different hardware configurations and varying Windows operating systems. After correcting a few bugs and taking care of platform independent problems, I thought the software was ready to roll. So, I wrapped it up and got it out there. However, now that it is available, I'm finding that it doesn't run correctly on MOST of the PCs that people are trying to run it on. What is the deal? How can I guarantee that my software will work??? I used a Microsoft compiler on a Microsoft Operating System using only Microsoft libraries. My software is the buggiest piece of !@#*@$. Doesn't it make sense that if it works 100% on one PC, that it should do the same on any other? Please crawl into a corner and die, Microsoft. Anybody have any advice for me??? How do I test my program in a way that I can be sure that it will work on the majority of other peoples' computers??? Johnny http://www.draw-bridge.com Re: Gee, thanks Microsoft Daniel Turini22-Jul-02 6:25 Daniel Turini 22-Jul-02 6:25  JohnnyNin wrote: Anybody have any advice for me??? Link statically. Test it on fresh-installs. Use VMWare for testing. Concussus surgo. When struck I rise. Re: Gee, thanks Microsoft Venet23-Jul-02 1:26 Venet 23-Jul-02 1:26  Daniel Turini wrote: Use VMWare Yummm, tasty Regards, Venet. -------- Black holes are where God divided by zero.(Steven Wright) Re: Gee, thanks Microsoft Tim Smith27-Jul-02 5:43 Tim Smith 27-Jul-02 5:43  Don't write buggy code? I have no problem at all creating software for 98/Me/NT4/W2K/XP. We dropped 95 for some API reasons. Chances are you are depending on versions of DLLs that you shouldn't. Many times this is COMCTL32 (which is well documented so you only have yourself to blame.) Are you depending on SHLWAPI? Also not available on all versions of the operating systems and also well documented. You depending on them having IE6 installed? MDAC? MFC? CRTL? Tim Smith "Programmers are always surrounded by complexity; we can not avoid it... If our basic tool, the language in which we design and code our programs, is also complicated, the language itself becomes part of the problem rather that part of the solution." Hoare - 1980 ACM Turing Award Lecture Installing SQL Server! Mazdak16-Jul-02 5:35 Mazdak 16-Jul-02 5:35  I have windows xp proffesional.I install SQLServer2000 enterprise edition.When I wanted to install "SQL Server Components" it tell me it can't install server tools in this operating system and installed only client tools. After installation I run Query analyzer.I have to connect to SQL Server.My compuetr name is 'MAZY' and I typed its name the name of server name.But when I clicked to connect to server I got this error: --------------------------- SQL Query Analyzer --------------------------- Unable to connect to server MAZY: Server: Msg 17, Level 16, State 1 [Microsoft][ODBC SQL Server Driver][Shared Memory]SQL Server does not exist or access denied. --------------------------- OK --------------------------- I tried "windows authenication" and "SQL Server authenication" too.I get the same thing.In enterprise manager when I want to register my server I get the same error.Any idea? Mazy "If I go crazy then will you still Call me Superman If I’m alive and well, will you be There holding my hand I’ll keep you by my side with My superhuman might Kryptonite"Kryptonite-3 Doors Down Re: Installing SQL Server! Simon Brown16-Jul-02 5:57 Simon Brown 16-Jul-02 5:57  I'm sure you can only install on a server, for example W2K Server. Old Simon HB9DRV Re: Installing SQL Server! Mazdak16-Jul-02 9:26 Mazdak 16-Jul-02 9:26  Thank you very much. Mazy "If I go crazy then will you still Call me Superman If I’m alive and well, will you be There holding my hand I’ll keep you by my side with My superhuman might Kryptonite"Kryptonite-3 Doors Down Re: Installing SQL Server! Michael P Butler17-Jul-02 1:43 Michael P Butler 17-Jul-02 1:43  You can install MSDE instead of SQL Server on your client machine. MSDE is the desktop version of SQL Server and is rather nice for developing applications targetted at SQL Server. Michael Look, try and use your intelligence, man, even if you are a politician. - The Doctor Help!! Forgot my password... Mark Donkers14-Jul-02 8:46 Mark Donkers 14-Jul-02 8:46  Hi CP, This one's a little embarassing I enabled the "Auto-logon" feature on my Win2k box about 4 months ago (after re-installing the OS). I thought it'd be a great idea to do this 'cuz it'll be ready to go after I boot. Now I would like to use PSTools to do some remote administration from work, BUT I forgot the password. Does anyone know of any password recovery tools that I can use. TIA Mark Donkers A witty saying proves nothing. -- Voltaire Re: Help!! Forgot my password... Venet14-Jul-02 9:13 Venet 14-Jul-02 9:13  Hi, As far as I know, password is stored in clear text on registry. Have you tried using TweakUI utility ? Can't remember the exact location of the key that holds password. It is something along HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\WindowsNT\Logon Regards, Venet. -------- Black holes are where God divided by zero.(Steven Wright) Re: Help!! Forgot my password... Mark Donkers14-Jul-02 9:29 Mark Donkers 14-Jul-02 9:29  Thanks Venet. TweakUI does show the asterisks and lets me know how many characters it is. I downloaded a utilty that will reveal what the asterisks are in a text box, but not the TweakUI one. The Copy right-click is disabled as well, so i can't do a cut and paste. Grrrrrrrrr... Any other ideas??? Mark Donkers A witty saying proves nothing. -- Voltaire Re: Help!! Forgot my password... Venet14-Jul-02 10:39 Venet 14-Jul-02 10:39  Hi Mark, Well try another thing. I just looked at my computer and found this registry key: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon There should be some values there like DefaultUserName and DefaultPassword See if you can get those and let me know Regards, Venet. -------- Black holes are where God divided by zero.(Steven Wright) Re: Help!! Forgot my password... Mark Donkers14-Jul-02 15:54 Mark Donkers 14-Jul-02 15:54  Thanks again. Unfortunately, it's still a "no-go". I found the DefaultUserName key, but no DefaultPassword. Any more ideas In the mean time, I'll try and find some more utilities. Mark Donkers A witty saying proves nothing. -- Voltaire Re: Help!! Forgot my password... Venet14-Jul-02 22:56 Venet 14-Jul-02 22:56  Well if registry fails then you can try creating another username and add it to Administrator group. Then delete the old Administrator. I'm runing of ideas now. [edit] Try this utility. I just tested and worked fine: http://www.codeproject.com/dll/pwdspy.asp [/edit] Regards, Venet. -------- Black holes are where God divided by zero.(Steven Wright) Re: Help!! Forgot my password... Mark Donkers6-Aug-02 20:21 Mark Donkers 6-Aug-02 20:21  Thanks. Sorry this is such a delayed response. I created a new user with Admin priviledges. I can do everything from that account now, but I can't delete the old one. Oh well, c'est la vie. Thanks again for all the suggestions. Mark Donkers A witty saying proves nothing. -- Voltaire Re: Help!! Forgot my password... Gertjan Schuurmans4-Aug-02 3:26 Gertjan Schuurmans 4-Aug-02 3:26  Hi there, You still have access to your computer (when you're sitting) at it, don't you? Then why don't you just reset the password (Control Panel | Users and Password) and use the new one for remote control. BTW, it's probably wise to disable autologon especially because since you do remote admin, you'll probably have your computer always connected. gr, Gertjan Re: Help!! Forgot my password... Mark Donkers6-Aug-02 20:23 Mark Donkers 6-Aug-02 20:23  Hey Gertjan, Yeah. What I did was create another user with Admin privies. I tried to delete the old one, but wouldn't let me. I've disabled Auto-logon so this wouldn't happen again. Anyways, thanks... Mark Donkers A witty saying proves nothing. -- Voltaire ICS & outlook express zhero7013-Jul-02 7:09 zhero70 13-Jul-02 7:09  Hello, I have a problem sending Email using outlook express From a client computer which is connected through Microsofot Internet connection sharing. My network is configured as such: Server is running Win2k Pro and is connected to an ADSL modem. Client computer is running WinXP pro. 10Mbps ethernet. I have tried changing MTU size and configuring the cards to work both with Half and full duplex modes. Connecting the clinet directly to the ADSL modem results in no problems sending email. I would be gratefull if anyone that knows anything about this problem would reply. Thanx. ZhErHo@@7o Re: ICS & outlook express Venet14-Jul-02 4:07 Venet 14-Jul-02 4:07  Could you post the error message? What IPs are you using for your internal network? Is your SMTP server located outside network? etc. etc. Regards, Venet. -------- Black holes are where God divided by zero.(Steven Wright) Re: ICS & outlook express zhero7017-Jul-02 12:27 zhero70 17-Jul-02 12:27  I finally succeed to resolve the problem by using Doctor TCP (a small optimisation tools ).It s weird beacause I have definetly play with the MTU size..Anyway thanks for your interest.. Best Regards ZhErHo@@7o Re: ICS & outlook express Venet17-Jul-02 23:50 Venet 17-Jul-02 23:50  zhero70 wrote: It s weird beacause I have definetly play with the MTU size So what, MTU size was the problem of OE not connecting ? Weird. Regards, Venet. -------- Black holes are where God divided by zero.(Steven Wright) Re: ICS & outlook express Daniel Turini22-Jul-02 6:29 Daniel Turini 22-Jul-02 6:29  "Problems that go away by themselves come back with friends" Anonymous Concussus surgo. When struck I rise. Instructing Win2K to start itself from a remote terminal. WREY10-Jul-02 7:41 WREY 10-Jul-02 7:41  Does anyone know how to start Win2K from a remote machine without physically turning the machine on? (Yes, the machine is plugged in, and electricity is flowing to it at all times.) It might sound crazy, but if you can shut your machine down without physically turning it OFF, why wouldn't you be able to do the opposite and start it up, without physically turning it ON? I'm talking something almost similar to hibernating, in which the machine turns itself on at a certain time you had instructed it to do so. This, however, is for it to turn itself on upon receiving instruction to do so from a remote terminal. Might there be something in the BIOS you can activate to do this? William Re: Instructing Win2K to start itself from a remote terminal. Venet11-Jul-02 4:17 Venet 11-Jul-02 4:17  WREY wrote: It might sound crazy, but if you can shut your machine down without physically turning it OFF, why wouldn't you be able to do the opposite and start it up, without physically turning it ON? Good point WREY wrote: Might there be something in the BIOS you can activate to do this? Nope, it has to do with the network card. There are types of Network Cards that can remotely turn on PC (of course this needs to be supported by the BIOS as well). Technology is called WakeupOnLan. It is based by sending a special packet (MAGIC PACKET) to your NIC and it will turn on the computer. Regards, Venet. -------- Black holes are where God divided by zero.(Steven Wright) Re: Instructing Win2K to start itself from a remote terminal. WREY11-Jul-02 6:50 WREY 11-Jul-02 6:50  Thanks! I appreciate it. William

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