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How can I check or change Dots per inch (DPI) in VB

TheFinder — Wed, 15 Aug 2012 18:09:22 +0000

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sthubit — Tue, 14 Aug 2012 09:48:11 +0000

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How Do You Query The Windows API For Active Devices?

GreenLED — Sun, 06 Nov 2011 22:52:37 +0000

Here’s the rub. I want to use a script, be it vbs, batch, etc. to find out or query what devices are currently active on a Windows XP machine. So, the code structure would look like this . . .

IF PrinterIsPluggedIn: ShowDialog: “Yo, your HP is pugged in.”
ELSE: Do nothing.

That’s the basic theoretical concept. Do we have any experts in this area on this forum? (Method does not matter, just the goal does).

SQL Server Express 2005 Installation Failure

Baristador — Tue, 22 Dec 2009 19:07:29 +0000

Here is a fix for SQL Server Installtion failure. And a fix for newly installed programs that cause memory faults.

I encountered an issue after installing SQL Server Express 2005. Where I get a blue screen with c000021 0xc0000005 this is an install on a Dell PowerEdge 600SC Widows XP SP2.

To correct the problem, first you will need to remove your installation of SQL Server Express. To do this reboot the machine, pressing F8 during boot to get to the Boot Menu. Select Safe Mode and continue. Login, then click start, run, and type MSCONFIG. Once the MSCONFIG window appears click the services tab. Near the bottom right corner of the window you will see an option to Enable All Services and Disable All Services. Click disable all, this will disable all non-essential windows services. Now scroll through the services list and find Windows Installer, put a check mark next to it (this enables Windows Installer, which will allow you to remove programs from the Add/Remove programs applet). Click OK and restart your computer.

After the restart you will see a dialogue box informing you that you are running in a special configuration mode, click OK, then when the MSCONFIG window appears click Cancel. Do not put a check mark in the “do not show this again” box as later you do want to see it again. Your computer should boot normally. Login, click start, control panel, Add/Remove Programs, look for all SQL Express programs that were installed, starting from the bottom work your way up removing each one. You may get an error dialogue when trying to remove SQL Server Express 2005, click okay and go on. Once you have uninstalled SQL Server Express and all related installed programs. Click start, run, type MSCONFIG, click the services tab, click enable all. Click OK and restart your computer.

Your computer should reboot as normal without SQL express installed. Now apply the hotfix located here support.microsoft.com/kb/921337 the other hotfix mentioned on Microsofts Social sites, I did not apply because the one for SP2 is no longer available, and it ended up not being necessary. Once you have installed the hotfix install SQL Server Express, I would avoid trying to install the whole developers package bundled with SQL Server Express Management Studio, just get through the basic installation first. Once you have successfully installed SQL Server Express, then install the Management Studio and perform any customizations you like.

The above mentioned MSCONFIG method is very handy in removing any program that causes you errors after installation, as long as you can boot in Safe Mode.

Merry Christmas!

Joshua

Backing up Windows event logs

Notanic — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 01:35:22 +0000

Hi,

Could someone show me official Microsoft documentation that shows whether or not Windows 2003 ntbackup (or 2008 backup) is able to backup and restore Windows event log files.

I know that if you try and backup the .evt files directly (C:\WINDOWS\system32\config) that ntbackup will silently skip out those files. By ‘silently’ I mean the backup will show as being 100% successful, and no event logs will be backed up, or reported as not being able to be backed up.

The contents of system state is described here:

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc785306%28WS.10%29.aspx

I have not investigated 2008 backup capabilities, but if you happen to know event log backup on 2008 that would be useful.

*Note* I know that there are WMI scripts to backup eventlogs. This is not what I am asking. I am asking whether the built in backup software can do it.

To test the 2003 backup side of things I performed the following steps:

1. On 2003 DC, backed up system state using ntbackup.
2. Cleared event logs.
3. Rebooted into Active Directory Restore mode
4. Used ntbackup to restore the system state
5. Rebooted into normal mode
6. Event viewer showed no events older than when I cleared the event logs in step 2.

This practical experiment answers one of my questions:

Does 2003 system state backup, backup the Windows event logs?
Answer: No.

Does anyone know if 2008 is the same?

Thank you for your time.

Outlook 2003 Send to – Mail Recipient not working

Dwiebesick — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 16:29:36 +0000

I am stumped. I have a customer using Outlook 2003 (with latest updates) on a Windows XP (w/SP3) Pro machine. When they right-click a file and select “send to – mail recipient”, everything functions normally. A message window pops up with the file they right-clicked attached and a brief message automatically inserted in the body of the e-mail. However, when they add any valid e-mail address and click send, nothing happens. When they hover the mouse over the send button, it highlights like it should, and when they click it, it depresses like it should, but nothing happens. The window stays open, and the message never gets sent. Sending a message inside Outlook by clicking “new” works fine, even with an attachment. This only happens when they use the “send to – mail recipient” option. They would send attachments the other way, but the “send to – mail recipient” option lets Windows resize their pictures for them automatically and they want to use that function.
Any help would be appreciated.

Outlook 03 user wants to create and spellcheck email in Spanish.

Robert Stewart — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 15:47:03 +0000

First off the environment for the client is XP, Office 03, and Exchange 03. The problem is the end user wants to create an email in Spanish and then use a Spanish spell checker for mistakes. I have looked at the options tab in Outlook 03 and changed the dictionary to Spanish but it still does not work. Any suggestions or considerations given this issue will be appreciated.

Microsoft Outlook 2007

Schmidtw — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 19:58:06 +0000

I know this is probably a silly question relating to Outlook 2007…but it has stumpted me. I know Outlook 2007 very (very) well…but I have come upon an issue I have not been able to fix. Recently, I have accidentily deleted a few e-mails. Once they are in the Deleted Items folder I cannot undelete them. I have tried marking them as unread, copying them, etc. and nothing has worked consistently. Any ideas as to why this is?

The problem does not appear to be occurring with Exchange based e-mail, only POP3.

Please let me know.

Thanks,

Schmidtw

How to create Windows XP CD with Service Pack 3

20088 — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 11:06:37 +0000

dear all i need to ask that how i can creat and XP CD with Service Pack3
im already having XP CD with the Service Pack but i wanted to create another new CD with service Pack3 which is the latest cz its a big hassle that i need to install XP and then after i need to run Service Pack3 seperately is it any way to create PLZ ADVICE!!!!!

Thanx in Advance xD

overheating PC

Balero — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 17:35:41 +0000

PC specs: A8NE Asus mother board. 2.2 dual core AMD processor Geforce 7600 512mb Graphics Card. 400W PSU (included with case)

For some time i have been experiencing problems with my computer. when I have been running high spec games the computer would turn off. the screen would go black and i would have to wait for 20-30 minuets before I could use the computer again.

The problems steadily got worse until i was having problems running lower performance games, and even Firefox for a long period of time (6+ hours)

Because of this i decided to re-format the computer, and hopefully erase any problems, faulty drivers etc. I managed to uninstall and rewrite the hard disk without any problems. However the computer would shut down after 3-4 minutes of installing windows.

I had assumed that this was an overheating problem somewhere, and therefore i took off the side of my computer to see if any of the components were particularly hot. The Graphics card was the hottest of all of the components and therefore I thought would be the one most likely to be a problem.

To further investigate this i tried another graphics card in the computer, however, for some reason the card did not work properly. So i tried my graphics card in another computer, this then worked well, and i was able to run a high performance game for over an hour before i stopped to try again.

I then installed Ubuntu on the computer which was able to be installed without any problems. This was the first time i had used Linux on a computer, and though i intend to switch over to it a some point I was not able to have all of the facilities that i needed (mainly a wireless internet connection) working. and therefore i abandoned having Ubuntu installed onto the computer and have tried to install windows again, and I am experiencing the same problem.

I did some research into the problem and discovered someone with a similar (but not exactly the same) problem, which was resolved by getting a new and better PSU, however I wanted to get some advice before buying a new PSU, and having it not work.

Thanks for reading and for any help.