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Ok, I just installed XP SP1 on a co-worker's machine and she is now unable to switch identities in Outlook Express 6.
Has anyone XPerienced this? If so how did you fix it?
Thanks.
P.S. nothing at msdn.microsoft.com about it yet.
-Sean
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Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former. -- Albert Einstein.
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Just picked this up in the newsgroups:
There are currently two workarounds:
- Click on files/identities/manage identities and remove the checkmark in "Use this identity when starting a program".
For more information, see Q329084[^] - "You Cannot Switch Identities in Outlook Express After You Install Windows XP SP1"
- Before changing identity, Press F1. The Outlook Express "Help" window will open (and leave it running in the background). Now click on FILE > SWITCH IDENTITY and select your other identity. Outlook Express will ask the question "Do you wish to keep the same connection". Answer "YES". It will go to the identity you select.
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Thanks!
-Sean
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Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former. -- Albert Einstein.
I saw a woman wearing a sweatshirt with 'Guess' on it. I said, "Thyroid problem?" -- Emo Philips.
Love is two minutes, 52 seconds of squishing noises. -- Johnny Rotten.
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I’ve been trying to get a minimal win32 app started and have been able to do so but one question I still have is: what 10 handles my app still have open or is there a way of finding out what they are?
I ran this app on Win2k Pro
I have changed the entry point for the app to a function I defined that just contains a simple for loop and also removed the msvcrt (just for trying to get a idée of the number of handles in a minimal app).
The last question I have is why the app had 88k of virtual memory or is that the virtual memory that comes with kernel32.dll
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Ho can I configure my Personal Web Server on this beautiful shiny Win XP home box?
If I try to access the local host via Fromtpage, the PWS window with "Web Server idle" pop up - but I can't find anything to tell it where to look for stuff etc.
One day I might find it quite amusing how touching tongues make life so confusing Anne Clark again [sighist]
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Not sure if there is a workaround or setting I need to change but after having installed Windows Service Pack 1 I am no longer able to use the about: feature in Internet Explorer 6.
I have my home page URL set to about:links to projects I am working on which is the fastest home page setting around. It is also very handy as I can click the Home button and be shown a list of links to current projects. You can enter in virtually any HTML, CSS and JavaScript you want.
The odd thing though is when I load IE, it works fine. The about: bits all come up. It only does not work if I try and type it in manually or click the Home button. The error it returns is the "Action canceled" error saying that IE can temporarily not find the page I am looking for.
Anybody got a fix? Anybody know if MS knows this? Am I missing something obvious? ta
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As far as I can see, this was considered a securiry hole, and got "fixed" by SP1. There is a workaround, though. In the registry, under HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\AboutURLs, you can add any key you like, and redirect it to any other URL.
For example, if you add a string value called "Code", with a value of "http://www.codeproject.com", navigating to "about:Code" will take you to the CodeProject home page. 
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Richard_D wrote:
As far as I can see, this was considered a securiry hole, and got "fixed" by SP1. There is a workaround, though. In the registry, under HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\AboutURLs, you can add any key you like, and redirect it to any other URL.
Thank you Richard. I can see how they saw it as a security threat in some obscure "hey it tickles more than it hurts" way, but still, wish I could disable that fix 
Now lets see how how much damage I can do to my registry....
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Hi,
I am facing a strange problem. A software developed by me is not working in Windows 2000. I am using a celeron 433.
On investigation I found that a C system() call is returning -1. Windows 2000 has two command interpreters command.com and cmd.exe. Which one is being called by the system () call?
And the final touch .. I tried the same program in some other windows 2000 machine. And it works all right!
Thanks.
Mainak
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Some more pointers:
1) My machine (on which it does not work) is windows2000 professional edition. The other one where it worked is a server.
2) My program is compiled with VC6 and it's a console application.
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Hi,
I am a Brazilian developer and I need to create a brazilian
keyboard.
I know that I need to change the VKCHAR table and sckxtmsengus1.cpp,
what methods needs to be change?
Could anybody give me more information?
Thank you in advance.
Katiúcia Freitas da Silva
Phone: + 55 35 3471 9300
e-mail: katy_freitas@hotmail.com
ICQ#: 127458845
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I'm searching for good and complete information about interruptions management (for win2k)...
Thanks...
Hello World!!!
from Raphaël
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What kind of "interruptions" do you want to manage?
Power interruptions?
IRQ interruptions?
BSOD interruptions?
User interruptions?
Or some other type(s) of interruptions?
Aalst
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I have installed a bad driver for the modem in win2k.
In the next start my CPU works at 100% full time and
the OS doesn't work...It works only in "temporary modality".
Unfortunately, in that modality, is not possible (or I'm not
able to...) to manage the Modem through the Control Panel in
order to remove the bad driver.
I also don't remember the name of the bad driver !!!!!
But I need to remove it in order to let my OS work!!!!
How can I solve this problem ???
I need to know where are stored some information about the
current modem driver!!! Maybe the system registry ???
But where ???
I need help !!!!!!!!
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There's a couple of options available. One is to reboot the machine and press F8 when WIndows starts loading. This will display a menu of startup options, including Last Known Good configuration. Selecting this will boot the OS in the configuration it had when it last started normally. If it then discovers a "new" modem and offers to install it, refuse it and let it boot normally. Then use Device Manager to remove the modem completely, power down and physically extract the modem. The next startup should be mormal, unless you've booted several times since the problem began and all the backup configurations are bad.
Another choice is to boot from the original CD and allow the Install process to begin. You can then select the Repair option to attempt to restore the original configuration as it was first installed. Before you attempt this, though, remove the modem physically from the machine and make sure the BIOS is set to boot from the CD first. The CD itself is bootable, but the BIOS has to look there first, before trying the HDD. This option will also require you to reinstall any hotfixes, patches, or service packs you've installed.
Good luck
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I have developed a software using visual C++ 5.0. It works fine in Windows 95 and Windows 98. It does not work when executed under Windows 2000. The error message is as below:
"The instruction at "0x10217a1f" referenced at "0x0043c1a0. The memory could not be "written".
Click on OK to terminate the program
Click on CANCEL to debug the program"
Please help me out from this problem.:
G. S. Gupta
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Well Win9x and Win2k are not directly related. Win9x is based on DOS, while Win2k is based on NT.
You will first want to start by installing VC++ on a Win2k box and debug the code there. If this is not posible then you are going to have to put some more information in your code around the area where you suppect the error to be so it outputs to the console and have the person using this on Win2k keep running it for you. Eitherway you have to find the line(s) of code where you are doing something bad to Win2k.
Then you need you look at the platform SDK documentation for Win2k and go over this part of your code, and either find a compatible fix that will work on Win9x and Win2k or not support Win2k/XP or to privide differnt version of your application, one for Win9x and one for Win2k.
I hope this helps. FYI, that error message not helpful because it dealing with memory locations in RAM that are system dependent.
Aalst
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![Rose | [Rose]](https://codeproject.global.ssl.fastly.net/script/Forums/Images/rose.gif) Thank You very much for the reply.
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Is there some way to change default (and unpredictable) behaviour of Win2000 Printer Spooler when there is no paper on
local printer? The message "Out of Paper" appears a long time after paper is over, and sometimes it looks like spooler forgets to show this message. My users are confused with this situation and I want to get such message immidiately.
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The Spooler service in Win2K is flaky, but I doubt that this is Microsoft's fault entirely. I've seen a variety of behaviors on different machines, and the difference seems to be in the printer model. My Lexmark, for instance, has to complete a job; cancelling a print job leaves a stub file in the spooler folder that will block any later attempts to print until the machine is restarted. An HP I've used allows jobs to be cancelled okay, but about 40% of the time it fails to print at all on the first try. I'd bet the problem you're having is due to the driver, not Windows - check for a newer version on the web.
Alternatively, if you have more than one printer assigned to the print device, you can set different priorities to make Windows pay closer attention to one over the other. This won't help overall performance, though.
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Hi,
what books on windows device drivers can you recommend for a newbie to the topic?
Askadar
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I'm assuming you want to develop for NT/Win2k/XP. I really don't know much about drivers for Win9x...
Books
Windows NT Device Driver Development - Peter G. Viscarola, W.Anthony Mason
Gives a good start in driver development. Shows how to set up the development systems and use tools like WinDbg. Includes nice code samples.
Inside Windows 2000 Third edition - David A. Solomon, Mark E. Russinovich
A nice introduction to Windows 2000 system mechanics. Seems to be primarly written for advanced system administrators, but contains some nice information for developers too. No code, but lots of system experiments with the kernel debugger (a tool for live debugging included, although it probably must be updated at SysInternals webpage to work).
Windows NT/2000 Native API Reference - Gary Nebbett
A reference. Wait until you understand the basics, then get this one. Some say the information is to accurate to find out whitout the Windows source code. The author claims he had no such access.
Internet
SysInternals Webpage
Useful, contains a lot of sourcecode.
Microsoft DDK page
Microsoft is releasing the new version of the DDK (next month, I think). If you have an MSDN subscribtion, you will be able to download for free. Otherwise, try using the old suite until you feel the need to upgrade...
Hope this helps.
Cheers
/moliate
Two o'clock and walking through familiar London - Or what was familiar London before the cursor deleted certain certainties -
I watch a suit and tie man giving suck to the Psion Organizer lodged in his breast pocket
its serial interface like a cool mouth hunting his chest for sustenance, familiar feeling, and I'm watching my breath steam in the air.
Neil Gaiman - Cold Colours
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LAst week I built my first WinXP Peer-to-Peer network, and after much hassle with undocumented bs, it was working perfectly. Today I spent most of the day on the phone trying to install a program that requires a shared database. I installed the first station, along with the master database, and all went well. The db was installed in the root of the C: drive, as should work with any previous version of Windoze. But when I installed the client of another PC and tried to access the db, it told me that access was denied! I shared the bejeezus out of the db - Everyone has full control, and all four users have admin accounts on all three machines. But still it insists that access is denied. Online Help is useless, as always with Micro$oft products, and the problem is worsened because Dell has replaced the standard help with their own even more clueless help system!
The default simple network sharing option is off, and security is shamefully lax with all users having full control of everything on all machines, but the so^ of a b*&^h will not allow access!!! I uninstalled the original db and reinstalled it to the host's Shared Folders directory, and I can now suddenly access it from other PCs on the network, but I don't want it there. Is there any way to make a WinXP P2P network actually useful?
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Strange problem Roger.
Reading your post I get the feeling that there is something incorrect with the database configuration, rather than sharing, but I'm not really sure.
What kind of database are you using ?
Regards,
Venet.
Donec eris felix, multos numerabis amicos.
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