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Hi, I have a strange problem with a user's machine. When she sets the resolution to 800x600, it resets itself to 1024x768 the next time she logs on. However if an admin logs in the resolution is 800x600. It looks as if every user that logs in has a resolution of 1024x768. I can't find a...

It's rebooting probably because windows XP is setup to automatically reboot when a startup error occurs. To disable: Open the System properties screen. Click the 'Advanced' tab. Click the settings button under startup and recovery. Uncheck 'Automatically restart'. Your machine should...

Does this answer your question? Run Windows explorer as an administrator: runas /user:administrator "\"c:\program files\internet explorer\iexplore\" c:\\" You can also access Control Panel icons in the C:\Windows\System32 folder. In other words you should be able to perform most actions...

Thanks Matt! I was going in this direction anyway! What's even more annoying is that I searched through tek-tips for over an hour and didn't get anywhere! :-( Cheers.

Hi, I'm trying to launch my application whenever a user double-clicks a Crystal ".rpt" file. I associated the .rpt extension to my application and it launches OK but the report doesn't load. What extra lines do I have to add to my app to get this to work? Thanks, D.

Thanks sv, This is a limitation of 8.5. But I've found another way with DLLs! D.

Hi, I've written a DLL to get information from a table in one database on our SQL server and return information from another database (i.e. stock information and purchasing information is spread across different databases on the same SQL server instance). However I'm not getting any data back...

I've found similar behaviour under different circumstances, if you export the report to Excel the blank lines will disappear. Not much help I know... "I want to play..." (Guess the X-Files episode!)

Hi, Sorry if this is answered elsewhere... I have a report that takes a value from a shared subreport variable. However, there is a one-to-many relationship between the main table and subreport. My problem is that I want the main report's detail to duplicate for each instance of the subreport...

You need the line... report.DiscardSavedData ..easy when you know how but terribly difficult to find the information! I found this out by experimentation! Good Luck. D. "I want to play..." (Guess the X-Files episode!)

We're using the '/' operator. D. "I want to play..." (Guess the X-Files episode!)

Hi, I have a problem with Excel 97 (Sr2). Every primitive operation works EXCEPT division(\). When I enter a calculation such as "=10/2" I get a dialog box telling me the function I have typed contains an error and the formula returns a "#VALUE" code. Any tips on how to fix...

Try re-registering craxdrt.dll by going to Start > run and typing: regsvr32 [path]\craxdrt.dll ...or re-install Crystal Reports on the machine.

Try re-registering craxdrt.dll by going to Start > run and typing: regsvr32 [path]\craxdrt.dll ...or re-install Crystal Reports on the machine. "I want to play..." (Guess the X-Files episode!)

Really what I was trying to do was allow a user to dial-up to a workstation running Windows 2000 Pro. However I found the answer at http://www.lpt.com/windowsnetworking/regusers/w2krasdf.htm which explains that there is a feature in Win2k Pro under Dial-up Networking that allows you to...