I'm cowering behind my desk right now. :-) Stephen Kellett -- Memory Validator. Faster Leak Detection, Better Analysis. http://www.softwareverify.com http://www.objmedia.demon.co.uk/rsi.html

Stephen Kellett wrote: I'm tired of hearing the same Vivaldi piece when I ring and I'm put on hold. Please change the record! Sounds like they use the same call-center as BT OpenWorld! Every call involves at least 20 minutes of listening to the same 3 minute section of the Four Seasons repeated ad nauseum. X|

Are you aware of "Xenix"? The last release was in 1985. "Looking further back to 1980, we find Microsoft developing a commercial version of Unix called Xenix under license from AT&T. " - http://www.vcnet.com/bms/features/tale.shtml It was designed to be "compatible with all previous Microsoft software and UNIX software. " If I remember correctly, Bill was talking about reviving the Unix-based OS back in the late-80s/early 90s, but I could be wrong about that.

Quite an interesting business. I bet they spend an enormous amount of time convincing skeptical people what they can offer works. I'd wager a lot of the work they do is very interesting stuff. Stephen Kellett -- Memory Validator. Faster Leak Detection, Better Analysis. http://www.softwareverify.com http://www.objmedia.demon.co.uk

Yeah, I read this a while ago. It's quite funny when a journalist who knows diddly squat about computers tries to write an article. That's not to say a virus cannot do some damage to hardware though. For example, overclocking components without the user knowing would result in long term damage. Perhaps there is an msdn article on how to blow up somebody's computer with a Windows API call? Simon I need your clothes, your boots, and your copy of VS.NET. Sonork ID 100.10024 My previous small-print gag was foiled by almost everyone. I will strike again soon.

This is pretty much what I've ended up doing. Now that I've seen with Windows Installer I can end up in a situation where a potential customer using evaluation software, or a customer that has purchased my companies software, will not be able to install the software. My reaction has been to try Inno Setup (which I didn't know about before today). I've managed to get all the functionality required by doing this. Which makes me wonder how I got suckered into purchasing the tool I did. As for default registry entries, I was doing that anyway. And I wanted my installer to using a single self executing installer, or equivalent. Which I had with (an equivalent) Windows Installer and have with Inno Setup. I've even been able to duplicate the start menu and add/remove options with Inno Setup that I was getting with Windows Installer. I doubt if I will use Windows Installer until I can gaurantee it will work, which means not for a couple of years. I think its the poorest quality piece of software I've seen Microsoft release in a long time. Stephen Kellett -- C++/Java/Win NT/Unix variants Memory leaks/corruptions/performance/system problems. UK based. Problems with RSI/WRULD? Contact me for advice.

Use the Spy.... But if you want it prgramatically, for each process, you need to open new enumprocess for each process. The process are a tree, and pspi show you every level, you need to open every process for see if you have more sub process... Best Regards.... :bob: Today is Friday!!! :beer: and Party!!! Carlos Antollini. Sonork ID 100.10529 cantollini

MSDN says: Windows NT 4.0 and earlier, Windows 95/98/Me: There is no way to get the thread handle from the thread identifier. If the handles were made available this way, the owning process could fail because another process unexpectedly performed an operation on one of its threads, such as suspending it, resuming it, adjusting its priority, or terminating it. Instead, you must request the handle from the thread creator or the thread itself. A thread can use the GetCurrentThread function to retrieve a pseudo handle to its own thread object. This pseudo handle is valid only for the calling process; it cannot be inherited or duplicated for use by other processes. To get the real handle to the thread, given a pseudo handle, use the DuplicateHandle function.

Thanks for the recommendations. I've been looking for a package like "help and manual" for ages. I'd always held off buying a package until I absolutely needed one. Glad I wait now that I've been shown H&M. This looks like it is exactly what I want. Of course I may change my mind once I've used it... Thanks to all that replied. Stephen Kellett -- C++/Java/Win NT/Unix variants Memory leaks/corruptions/performance/system problems. UK based. Problems with RSI/WRULD? Contact me for advice.

Thanks for the replies folks. Stephen Kellett -- C++/Java/Win NT/Unix variants Memory leaks/corruptions/performance/system problems. UK based. Problems with RSI/WRULD? Contact me for advice.

Try: EnumDisplayDevices

Sorry my comments didn't help. Can you use windbg on your system to read the Drwtsn32 "core" Dump files? This might give you a clue. (you got to make DrWtsn32 your default debugger and let it generate core files but I am sure you already read how to do this in John Robbin's articles...) You might want to change the debug info generation to "C7" compatible which is sufficient to read the line numbers and a get a function name context. Then again if you reinstalled the OS, everything might be running OK now. Good luck.

I don't have an solid answer for you, but FYI: Error code 1603 means: The file [2][3] is being held in use{ by the following process: Name: [4], Id: [5], Window Title: '[6]'}.

The number of things you can try is, unfortunately, nearly endless. Here's a few things off the top of my head: Could it be hardware? Some clone machines that have interrupt conflicts or flaky hard drives sometimes work, but work slowly. The hardware doesn't fail, just takes 3 retries to do everything. Check and see how many protocols you have set up. You likely only need TCP/IP, but maybe IPX for playing games too. Make sure the "default" protocol is the same for all the boxes (TCP/IP my recommendation), and remove anything you don't need. Some network cards don't play nice together. 100BaseT cards are like $20 ea, I'd just buy new cards for everything, get all the same brand. I like DLink there cheap and you can always find the right drivers. HTH