Thanks Stuart. I'd considered that but didn't want to add the overhead and complication of using these libraries. As of late yesterday I now have an implementation that works well enough on my slow old Vista Notebook and very well on my Desktop PC. Basically doing what Chris suggested. Neville Franks, Author of Surfulater www.surfulater.com "Save what you Surf" and ED for Windows www.getsoft.com

Thanks Iain, see my reply to ARJ 09 above. Neville Franks, Author of Surfulater www.surfulater.com "Save what you Surf" and ED for Windows www.getsoft.com

Stuart Dootson wrote: Hopefully it won't change too much more for Windows 7...Unsure Well I'll be testing that next. But one has to assume (pray/hope) it is the same as Vista. I think I've finally found the cause which is a lurking HKCR shell\open\ddeexec = [open("%1")] entry. I thought I'd got rid of these, but this one reappeared. Maybe I'll end the week (Oz) on a good note after all. Neville Franks, Author of Surfulater www.surfulater.com "Save what you Surf" and ED for Windows www.getsoft.com

Naruki wrote: A man applied for a job to paint someone's porch for $100. On old one but ..... Here's $10 for the 's'.:rose: Neville Franks, Author of Surfulater www.surfulater.com "Save what you Surf" and ED for Windows www.getsoft.com

Thanks Stuart, that's what I was looking for. Head scratching can stop now. I've just started moving a big project from VC6 to VS2008 and was expecting various issues to confront me. Neville Franks, Author of Surfulater www.surfulater.com "Save what you Surf" and ED for Windows www.getsoft.com

You are right, the code in my server was wrong. Up until now it only had code to handle a GET and this incorrectly handled POST. It got a packet with the "complete" headers which for a GET is the end of the story. For a POST there maybe a BODY still to come. It was simply a matter of updating the logic to correctly determine the end of the POST request. Neville Franks, Author of Surfulater www.surfulater.com "Save what you Surf" and ED for Windows www.getsoft.com

TagTuner turned out to be less than satisfactory. MediaMonkey gets cover art from Amazon and works well. Looks like its the winner. Neville Franks, Author of Surfulater www.surfulater.com "Save what you Surf" and ED for Windows www.getsoft.com

Neville Franks wrote: it sure would be nice to have time to dabble with some of the stuff they are writing about. I agree. "The clue train passed his station without stopping." - John Simmons / outlaw programmer

OMG I never even looked at it again! Wow, that was really a year ago? Man, did I get sidetracked :) Mark Salsbery Microsoft MVP - Visual C++ :java:

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Ours used to do that, but they 'fixed' it :-(

I finally got time to install xen and got it up and running. Wow, the disk performance is much better than with vmware. On a 6 disk (330 GB Seagate 7200.10) sata linux software raid6 I got the following numbers under linux for read performance (on a linux guest): # hdparm -tT /dev/sda1 /dev/sda1: Timing cached reads: 4360 MB in 2.00 seconds = 2182.28 MB/sec Timing buffered disk reads: 752 MB in 3.00 seconds = 250.63 MB/sec The array does around 267MB/s native (on the 64 bit gentoo linux dom0 host) so this is very good... John

As mentioned you'll likely need to reinstall if the OS is to be on a RAID partition. When i installed my system last Jan there was an issue with the nForce drivers being unsigned and the F6 not working (Win would reinstall older, but signed drivers on first real boot - thus hosing the install). I was forced to create a slipstream install disk with the RAID drivers incorporated. See: http://unattended.msfn.org/unattended.xp/[^] http://www.nliteos.com/[^] ...cmk Save the whales - collect the whole set

Thnaks for that. I'm in Australia so that isn't a lot of use though. I can buy the OEM Versions of XP for $A119 (Home), $A199 (Pro) but it makes more sense to put this towards Empower or Action Pack. Neville Franks, Author of Surfulater www.surfulater.com "Save what you Surf" and ED for Windows www.getsoft.com

you might try: How to use the Sysprep tool to automate successful deployment of Windows XP http://support.microsoft.com/kb/302577/

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If you are using the use the interfaces in a different thread than the one creating the control, you need to marshal it to this thread (CoMarshalInterThreadInterfaceInStream and CoGetInterfaceAndReleaseStream, which probably were made to win the WIN 32 API lyrics award) chopping strings usually isn't a symptom of violating apartment boundaries, but MSHTML ctrl has a few message loop interacitons that make that possible. Some of us walk the memory lane, others plummet into a rabbit hole Tree in C# || Fold With Us! || sighist

Aljechin wrote: If the app itself is unicode unaware, then how do you expect a child window of the app to handle unicode? You will have to do a unicode build to make the app work with unicode as far as I know. It is defintely doable. I just have worked out precisely how yet. In the early days of Windows NT MS suggested this approach so you could create a single exe to support W9x and NT. Here is some reading for you: http://www.microsoft.com/msj/0499/multilangunicode/multilangunicode.aspx[^] http://groups.google.com/group/microsoft.public.win32.programmer.international/tree/browse_frm/thread/f6d20df6e32dd033/25f27a4dffbd9603?rnum=11&hl=en&q=Using+Unicode+in+an+MFC+Ansi+App&_done=%2Fgroup%2Fmicrosoft.public.win32.programmer.international%2Fbrowse_frm%2Fthread%2Ff6d20df6e32dd033%2F06bdd51672de1c19%3Flnk%3Dst%26q%3DUsing+Unicode+in+an+MFC+Ansi+App%26rnum%3D8%26hl%3Den%26#doc_c83c4437a4e57c27[^] and there is plenty more. Neville Franks, Author of Surfulater www.surfulater.com "Save what you Surf" and ED for Windows www.getsoft.com

You should have it later today then. :) Anna :rose: Currently working mostly on: Visual Lint :cool: Anna's Place | Tears and Laughter "Be yourself - not what others think you should be" - Marcia Graesch "Anna's just a sexy-looking lesbian tart" - A friend, trying to wind me up. It didn't work.

Maybe because I was dumfounded at the dithering in the Canadian parliament and am so bored / jaded / depressed with politics in Australia. Italian politics are very colourful :) cheers, Chris Maunder CodeProject.com : C++ MVP