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37104
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...
Marc Brooks
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Feb 1, 2005
3:22 pm
37105
... 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...
Marc Brooks
anotherexcita
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Feb 1, 2005
3:27 pm
37106
... 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...
Jeroen Frijters
jeroen_nu
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Feb 1, 2005
3:51 pm
37107
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...
Greg Robinson
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Feb 1, 2005
6:43 pm
37108
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...
Marc Guyott
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Feb 1, 2005
6:48 pm
37109
... 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...
Stuart Laughlin
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Feb 1, 2005
6:49 pm
37110
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...
Brad Wilson
bradw_64
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Feb 1, 2005
7:35 pm
37111
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...
Arthur Warren
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Feb 1, 2005
7:40 pm
37112
... 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...
Arthur Warren
warren_herb
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Feb 1, 2005
9:03 pm
37113
... 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...
John Elliot
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Feb 1, 2005
10:00 pm
37114
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...
Richard Howells
loopylozzysdad
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Feb 1, 2005
11:17 pm
37115
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...
John Elliot
jj5v1
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Feb 2, 2005
12:35 am
37116
... 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...
Ian MacLean
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Feb 2, 2005
12:52 am
37117
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. ... ...
Duncan Godwin
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Feb 2, 2005
1:05 am
37118
... 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...
John Elliot
jj5v1
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Feb 2, 2005
1:12 am
37119
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...
Mark Levison
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Feb 2, 2005
1:20 am
37120
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...
John Elliot
jj5v1
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Feb 2, 2005
1:35 am
37121
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,...
Franci Penov
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Feb 2, 2005
2:16 am
37122
http://www.kbalertz.com/ has those feeds. Scott _____ From: John Elliot [mailto:jj5@...] Sent: Tuesday, February 01, 2005 5:34 PM To:...
Scott Hanselman
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Feb 2, 2005
2:25 am
37123
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...
Scott Zionic
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Feb 2, 2005
2:32 am
37124
... Thanks Scott. Here [1] is the RSS HOWTO for kbalertz (for the lazy among us). John. [1] http://kbalertz.mykb.com/Article_834DA.aspx...
John Elliot
jj5v1
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Feb 2, 2005
2:55 am
37125
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...
Shawn A. Van Ness
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Feb 2, 2005
2:55 am
37126
... 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...
John Elliot
jj5v1
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Feb 2, 2005
3:23 am
37127
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...
Brad Wilson
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Feb 2, 2005
3:29 am
37128
... No problem! :) If you want to see some more really cool stuff, check some of these links out: http://www.webreference.com/js/column79/ ...
Marsh, Drew
drew_marsh
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Feb 2, 2005
3:39 am
37129
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...
Scott Hanselman
shanselman
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Feb 2, 2005
4:20 am
37130
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...
Scott Zionic
qwqertyuiopa...
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Feb 2, 2005
5:00 am
37131
... Ouch! Functional programming rocks my core belief system, leaving me lost and confused. For such a supposedly simple notion, 'context' is complicated! ...
John Elliot
jj5v1
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Feb 2, 2005
8:16 am
37132
I’m using Outlook 2003. I get to view the message but I still have to dismiss a dialog box. - R _____ From: Scott Hanselman [mailto:scott@...] ...
Richard Howells
loopylozzysdad
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Feb 2, 2005
8:29 am
37133
... 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...
Jeroen Frijters
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Feb 2, 2005
8:38 am
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