you are exactly right, but learn from the battles already fought. "Naked we come and bruised we go." - James Douglas Morrison Best Wishes, ez_way

http://www.microsoft.com/technet/community/columns/profwin/pw0801.mspx#EFAA thanks "Naked we come and bruised we go." - James Douglas Morrison Best Wishes, ez_way

Strange thing can happen, even in 8's! This will most likly the last time I write as I am going into long term nursing care this week, keep up the great work. "Naked we come and bruised we go." - James Douglas Morrison Best Wishes, ez_way

Please excuse any typo's I am blind and not as fast as I once was! "Naked we come and bruised we go." - James Douglas Morrison Best Wishes, ez_way

Ah ys you know of what you speak, Dr. Newcomer and I were theathing on 405's so I do well understand what we speak of.Thanks for the informed answer, but do you not think Intel and M$ spoke about offsets even in the old days of Int driven systems? Do you remember when CPU ruled? How about the IBM Strech or Dr. Wilde? "Naked we come and bruised we go." - James Douglas Morrison Best Wishes, ez_way

It is so, I returned for a c64 confrence and learned all 32 will be tossed. No backwards compat. and why are you most of all suprised? I will be happy to pull the article out of respect to you and the day's when you and Brad J. were feeling yur way about, but, it will only be a matter of time until it is a well known fact. New software for everyone! Cheers "Naked we come and bruised we go." - James Douglas Morrison Best Wishes, ez_way

Nome de plume? "Naked we come and bruised we go." - James Douglas Morrison Best Wishes, ez_way

OK and thank you, My points are: M$ is going to make it possible for everyone to code, I think that is good, what do you think? M$ is forcing us to by new compilers or be out of the game, what do you think? M$ has the habit of finding ways to make things incompatable, what do you think? M$ is a great company with many good features, what do you think? If we continue on this line everyone will be a programmer, I think thats god, what do you think? I am not against M$ at all, am a stockholder in the comapny for many many years, hope they make you but more stuff, more money for me, and isn't that what life is all about, more money for me? "Naked we come and bruised we go." - James Douglas Morrison Best Wishes, ez_way

I could say it no better, as a stockholder in M$ I can say that the stock shall rise! "Naked we come and bruised we go." - James Douglas Morrison Best Wishes, ez_way

Please tell me what exacly was wrong? I am always ready to correct or retract if I am wrong. Was it the thunker? Was it the non portability of 16 and 32 bit dll's? Was it the compiler you bought last week will be worthless with Longhorn? What were the weak arguments? If I said somthing that offended you I would like to know, but if I say your email contains no specific points, just empty words would I be right? Did you not place on your website the following greeting to all newbies? "I also won't bother answering questions when I feel it is obvious you haven't even tried to do any research on your own. It might sound harsh, but Zaddix took down his model information web page due to the number of questions he was receiving. I just can't spend my time answering questions such as "I am new to programming and I don't understand your web page. Can you explain it in English?" Tim Smith So I am a newbie, teach me,I just want to learn, "Naked we come and bruised we go." - James Douglas Morrison Best Wishes, ez_way

is true I use quick regularly M$ for Microsoft, and make no excuse for it. It is most descriptive and to the point. Bless you, Marty "Naked we come and bruised we go." - James Douglas Morrison Best Wishes, ez_way

Sorry M$ put it in powerpoint not I. Please try page 1 instead. http://www.financialdevelopers.com/assets/presentations/Microsoft - Unix Migration and the Visual C++ Roadmap.ppt#1 "Naked we come and bruised we go." - James Douglas Morrison Best Wishes, ez_way

The Spaghetti Room is Now Open and Serving 8 Tetra-Bytes. Well everyone can now write code, this is good. How simple can it become and how many pieces crapcodes can be produced by a room of monkeys typing away 24/7 ? You will soon be able to create an object for a row, column, and cell of data. When I started in 1964 we had a set of punch cards that added two integers. It was called the batch set; all after the marker card were known to be data. Yes I know you understand but our assignment was to see how small we could make the batch set through plug boards and economy of instructions on the cards themselves. One guy in my class got it down to ten cards, and we were all so happy for him, immediately elevating him to super human status as he had saved a few precious bytes of memory, it was very expensive. Now as I come to a close of my career I am told memory is cheap, there is no need for good code, as we can pump redundant information time after time into and endless supply of ram. Soon the hard drive will be replaced by non-volatile ram drives and processing at the speed of light will become the norm, but I ask all of you to think just a moment, how small (tight) code is very efficient and error free, well mostly error free, and very easy to debug. Quick and Dirty was never intended to address more than 64kb of memory, hence 2^16 or 65536, but it came on paper tape and was free. Now comes M$ and some very cleaver dealings and has sold Q&D nationwide with an offset that allows up to 640kb, i.e. 65536:0000. Next came the thunker and all things became possible, got memory, thunk it! Now comes Longhorn or Avalon , Titanium and 8TB of memory is available, but nothing at present will port over, nothing. Will we buy it again from M$, or do you think they will give us all a copy of M$ Office, or I.E. Explorer? Will the C++ compiler you bought last week work? No it will not, but you have learned a valuable lesson, a cheap price in some folks estimation, you understand that M$ is going to sell another few hundred billion dollars of software to you and the others in this smart mans world. So what is the point of this long winded ranting, well I think it is great that new programmers are entering the field everyday, and very bad that they have no idea of what efficient code is. I am not saying that spaghetti is bad, it’s just hard for me to pick up with my dull M$ supplied spork with only one tine. "Naked we come and bruised we go." - James Douglas Morrison Best Wishes, ez_way

Long horn will not thunk 32 or 16 bit dll's. I answered a question in c++ the other day and was dead wrong. Although longhorn will thunk 8 TB of memory, it will not load of support current dll's. The Jit makes this impossible. nmake will not compile, period with currrent 32bit CV6. Crash and burn, and M$ say's not conversion will be created. Any of you bright people see a market? http://www.financialdevelopers.com/assets/presentations/Microsoft - Unix Migration and the Visual C++ Roadmap.ppt#17 Longhorn: "A stupid breed of cattle that are often killed while standing under tall tree's during lighting storms." "Naked we come and bruised we go." - James Douglas Morrison Best Wishes, ez_way

On Windows XP and others it is possible to sign on without a user name or password. Is the default user name always default or can it contain another value? Thanks "Naked we come and bruised we go." - James Douglas Morrison Best Wishes, ez_way

Thank you very much for the helpful answer. Thanks, Again, "Naked we come and bruised we go." - James Douglas Morrison Best Wishes, ez_way

Great answer that you! This will help alot. Thank you, "Naked we come and bruised we go." - James Douglas Morrison Best Wishes, ez_way

Great and Thank you, I am trying to get to the GUID folder and it's content. As you know the GUID folders are a little tricky to get access to, so this helps quite abit. Thanks! "Naked we come and bruised we go." - James Douglas Morrison Best Wishes, ez_way

In the registry under HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\DocFolderPaths lives the paths to all users. How may I enum them? How may I find current user? "Naked we come and bruised we go." - James Douglas Morrison Best Wishes, ez_way

M$ has used a GUID in the path of some of their critical objects i.e. C:\Documents and Settings\Owner\Local Settings\Application Data\Identities\{520682BF-0796-481Z-AZB4-4E13X899C96E}\Microsoft\Outlook\ So my question is very simple: Where do the embed this information so they may access the same? I checked the registry and no joy, and I looked for fake dll's and no joy. So I must assofme that it is encrypted data, yes? I don't want their info I just wish to understand the issues and how they formulate a pointer to the stored data. "Naked we come and bruised we go." - James Douglas Morrison Best Wishes, ez_way