Hi, You just responded to a really old post from 1997. Anyway you can use the SetDeviceGammaRamp Function[^] to change the monitor brightness on video cards that support it. Best Wishes, -David Delaune
Hi again, It seems like you need to do a bit of research on NT systems administration. These are some fairly basic systems administration questions. Regarding case 1: Task Scheduler and security[^] How to use Xcacls.exe to modify NTFS permissions[^] Essentially you will need to modify the access control list for the %SYSTEMROOT%\Tasks folder. I would also recommend executing your task under a privileged account such as SYSTEM to avoid being terminated by the user. Regarding case 2: I do not know why Microsoft changed the default task folder location. But you can check if the path exists from your batch file:IF NOT EXIST "%SYSTEMROOT%\Tasks"
There may be a better way of doing this. Best Wishes, -David Delaune
Thanks for the replies, but I'm afraid that didn't work either. I tried running the entire shell as administrator (killing explorer.exe and restarting as admin), with no effect. No, I'm not in domain, no group policy. I think it must be some third party application doing it, but removing everything or reinstalling one by one on a clean OS is not an option...
rosiki wrote:
There are also some services that belongs to groups that are not in the ServiceGroupOrder and services that don't belong to any group (they don't have registry "Group" keys).
Only services which have the SERVICE_SYSTEM_START or SERVICE_BOOT_START flags will have ServiceGroupOrder keys. The services without entries are probably SERVICE_DEMAND_START or SERVICE_DISABLED. Some reference documentation: What Determines When a Driver Is Loaded[^] How To Control Device Driver Load Order[^] Best Wishes, -David Delaune
If you create your setup, you can add a "Special Folder" like it's called in VS2008. There you can select the "Program Files (x64)" folder. I don't know if this works in VS2005 too...
Dave Kreskowiak wrote:
You do realize he works for Microsoft as an Evangelist, right?
Yes I do know that. However, when I pointed out his advertising to Chris, he agreed it was inappropriate.
you can delete if you delete .lnk file from disk. for Desktop it is located in c:\Users\'YOUR ACCOUNT NAME'\Desktop Or if all accounts have same icon, it is located in: C:\Users\All Users\Desktop
Skippums wrote:
or does the SET command declare only local variables?
Yes, SET creates environment variables but they only exist within the scope of the command that runs them. Thus your two batch files will inherit the environment variables of the parent process (Windows ???) but any new ones they create will not be seen by the other process.
