It's a facinating article, but I wonder if he's got the whole idea backwards. Shouldn't users avoid running as Administrator as much as possible and using...
... Seems like the author makes a good point, that I think bears repeating: "Now the real final caveat. This is no replacement for running as a non-admin, and...
... I've often wondered if this can be restricted somehow (without going the WINSTA route). In the docs I've nocited that when you create a Job Object, you can...
I Googled this without much luck. What is this folder for? I am getting html pop ups from this folder throughout the day. My first instinct is to delete it's...
Hi Greg, I believe that this directory is the default temp directory for each user. I also believe that it is set in the user settings as the TEMP environment...
... Didn't you know? That's the official installation directory for Windows AdWare. ;) I'd nuke its contents without hesitation. I'd follow up with Ad-Aware or...
Each user gets their own TEMP directory, so that the system TEMP directory can have limited permissions. This is where it is. - Brad On Tue, 1 Feb 2005...
On Tue, 1 Feb 2005 13:43:45 -0500, Greg Robinson ... It's your system temporary directory. To confirm, start a cmd window, and type "set temp". You should get...
... Whoops. Said "system", meant "user". Thanks. Begs the question, though - is there a *true* system temp folder on 2000/XP? -- There are 10 types of people...
... About 4 or 5 years ago I tried to write a program that would send WM_xxx messages to a Flash plugin in Internet Explorer. My goal was to write a script...
Hi, I was asked a question the other day… “In my MFC application, can I develop a new window in .NET and then use it in my MFC application.?” My initial...
I'm trying to figure out how to add a new item to File -> New in explorer. Basically I have a few templates for various types of script files, and I'd like to...
... sure you can. Use tlbexp.exe to generate a typelib from your assembly and then call it as you would a regular COM library. To make it a bit more COM...
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The easiest way to do it is get hold of TweakUI which has a feature called Templates where you can either delete existing templates or create new ones. ... ...
... Turns out I was asking the wrong questions. The magical keyword that I was missing was "ShellNew". I found this [1], which has exactly all the hints I was...
Quicken Interchange Format? How do I convert these files to a useful format (txt, csv, excel)? My wife's bank seems to think that all the world has either MS...
You know how MS publishes those 'Q articles' (I'm not sure what they actually call them), that deal with nearly every support issue under the sun..? Well, do...
I second that. Nuke it. It's safe. There might be couple of files you won't be able to nuke until you close particular processes. For example, Outlook,...
I know this has been covered before, but how many people on this list cannot read email messages with invalid digital signatures in the preview pane? I have to...
On this topic... Scott Hanselman was nice enough to post the .reg file I use to automate cleanup of my Temp directory, upon logon. (As rigged, it deletes...
... I got caught up toward the end of last week (and then went on holidays.. ;), but I did manage to read the entire article you referenced. I can't remember...
Yes, there is a true Windows temp directory. You can see the value in the system-wide environment variables list. By default, it's in \Windows\Temp on XP (I...
Sorry ScottZ. I'll turn it off for [OT] posts. You might want to upgrade to Outlook 2003, it does the analysis on the sig in the background. But, you've pegged...
Thanks! I should probably get around to upgrading one of these days, but since this is just about the only thing Outlook XP does that annoys me (that 2K3...
... Ouch! Functional programming rocks my core belief system, leaving me lost and confused. For such a supposedly simple notion, 'context' is complicated! ...
... I doubt it. Maybe it just used Get[Async]KeyState() to check which key was pressed? ... No need. You can use the SendInput API to generate keyboard and...