Excellent, have you considered hooking up any fire / smoke / CO detection equipment into the system? That would be really cool. I just got off the phone with my mother, I was trying to convince her to get a home security system, but she is a little paranoid. I'd rather have an alarm, in addition to the amount of firearms in the house. "Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming "Wow! What a Ride!" — Hunter S. Thompson

Is your app registering for device plug and play events using RegisterDeviceNotification? And dont forgwet its a two stage, first you register for events by device classm then by handle when your device arrives. Faiing to handle this wil screw up the windows plug and play state and leave drivers locked in memory (which is what you have here). "It is a remarkable fact that despite the worldwide expenditure of perhaps US$50 billion since 1990, and the efforts of tens of thousands of scientists worldwide, no human climate signal has yet been detected that is distinct from natural variation." Bob Carter, Research Professor of Geology, James Cook University, Townsville

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If you're looking for a good strategy/tower defense game to test your spiffy new graphics card, I recommend Defense Grid[^]. You can get it on Steam for $10.00 ...it's highly addictive.

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Randor, Thanks for the detailed info! In my case, though, the "hacktastic registry" solution would not work because the backup drive is a removable SATA drive, not USB. Still, good to know. FYI, looking in my own registry, I only had the USBSTOR data in one pair of keys, both pointing to the same drive: \??\Volume{9243114d-2fd5-11df-aac5-00e04cf116c3} and \DosDevices\G: Dybs The shout of progress is not "Eureka!" it's "Strange... that's not what i expected". - peterchen

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dybs wrote: Thanks for the detailed response! I'm looking more into the data dictionary now and serializing the objects. My pleasure. Tracking the items in a dictionary would indeed be a nice alternative :) dybs wrote: Doesn't this "reset" the stack track to the line where you rethrow the exception? It does! That was sloppiness in my example. dybs wrote: Or would a simple throw not include your changes to the dictionary? It also includes the change if you omit the exception variable. Just verified it, just to be on the safe side. I are Troll :suss:

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Alan, Thanks for the suggestions. I ended up going with VBScript and it works perfectly. I based my solution off of an Experts Exchange post from this Google search (9th entry from the top)[^]. Dybs The shout of progress is not "Eureka!" it's "Strange... that's not what i expected". - peterchen

It might be misinterpreted, as the set command gladly accepts a space as a last part of a variable-name. DOS might interpret the request like this; IF "%%D "=="01"( How about something like the batch below? set d=%Date:~3,2% if "%d%" == "01" ( set month=JAN ) else if "%d%" == "02" ( set month=FEB ) .. echo %month% I are Troll :suss:

Luc, Thanks for the link. A colleague of mine has actually been writing the code, I haven't seen too much of it. I know he's tried captureing the DirectX frames as BMps, then using Windows Media Encoder to merge them into a WMV, but the frame rate has never been quite right. He might not have seen the IWMEncVideoSource2 type, which looks like exactly what we need. Hopefully the performance will be decent on it. Thanks, Dybs The shout of progress is not "Eureka!" it's "Strange... that's not what i expected". - peterchen

I use the word "lobotomized" a lot, e.g. "WinCE is a lobotomized implementation of Win32" or "the Celeron is a lobotomized version of the Pentium 3." I often wonder, especially as the years pass, how many people actually have any idea what this means. And oftentimes I wonder what kind of antisocial behavior WinCE, the Celeron, etc. engaged in to deserve a lobotomy!

What happens if you disable the device in device manager? Does it even appear there? I don't think the power can be switched off on individual USB ports (if it's possible at all to control power to the ports). On my motherboard, the power is permanently on, even when shut down. There is a tool here[^] that allows you to control devices from the command line, it may help if enabling and disabling fixes the issue. Also, you could look into the WDK[^], but I doubt there is anything that allows direct control of USB power. <edit> http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms798253.aspx[^] Looks like I was wrong about the WDK, it can be done (per device, not the port directly), but in kernel mode. </edit> modified on Monday, December 21, 2009 8:34 AM

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Register for plug and play events in the app. When you get a removal notice then close the handle. If you dont then the device willenumerate badly on reset rssulting in either an additional com port or none at all. Morality is indistinguishable from social proscription