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  1. EvilCabal

    OpenFileDialog within visual studio macro

    Hi, I have a macro in Visual Studio to launch the current project with the proper command line. This command lines holds a file name that I would like the user to select with an open file dialog box but OpenFileDialog fails to work with the following error: "Current thread must be set to...
  2. EvilCabal

    Performance problem (pagefile related ?)

    Hello ! Problem summary: I am having lots of annoying hang and slow down on my work PC. PC description: Intel quad core with 4 gig of ram and 2x500 gig HD in raid (7200rpm) on two partitions (100g for OS 400 for data) Environment: I work mainly on visual studio, building big projects...
  3. EvilCabal

    Video lag

    Hi all, first of all sorry if this is not the best forum, I searched a while and could not find a better match. I experience periodic video lag in streamed internet video using flash media player (even when the video is fully downloaded). During those lag I see about 1 frame every 2 seconds...
  4. EvilCabal

    Copy only writable file

    Hi all, first sorry if this is not the good forum to post this question I could not find anything more suitable. I am trying to create a batch file that will simply copy all files in a given directory that have the read-only attribute set to false. My goal is to back-up checked-out source...
  5. EvilCabal

    Excessive raid rebuild

    Hi, I have a P5W DH deluxe motherboard from ASUS. This is my third one on this warranty as the two previous ones died for no special reasons. This seem to be a pretty unstable board model. Since the first board I changed everything in my PC (PSU, ram, video card, hd and cpu). I am...
  6. EvilCabal

    Toshiba satellite a10 bios password change

    Hi, I have a toshiba satellite a10 laptop with a boot password (that I know). I just want to remove it, but it seems like it's impossible. Once you are in the bios the only thing you can do is change the password, their is no way of clearing it. Entering a blank password leaves the current...
  7. EvilCabal

    Power supply or motherboard or cpu dead?

    Hi, my pc won't boot anymore and it really seems like a motherboard or cpu problem to me but someone told me it could be the psu. Here is what happenned: Two days ago I shut down my PC and went to sleep. The next day I come back from work, it starts (Fans are running and HD are spinning)...
  8. EvilCabal

    Proclaimed CAS vs actual CAS

    Hi, I just bought 2x1gig dual channel OCZ Platinum DDR2 PC-6400 ram (OCZP800R21G). OCZ states that CAS is 4,4,4,15 (http://www.ocztechnology.com/products/memory/ocz_ddr2_pc2_6400_platinum_revision_2_dual_channel) However, CPU-Z says it is actually 5,5,5,15 at 400Mhz. It is 4,5,5,13 at 333 and...
  9. EvilCabal

    JMicron raid controller configuration problem

    Hi, I have an ASUS P5W DH Deluxe motherboard, with a JMicron JMB363 raid controller on which I am trying to set a IDE raid with two identical WD 160g hdd. But, when I load the JMicron configuration tool, the drives are tagged as unavailable. What could cause this? If I'm on the wrong forum...
  10. EvilCabal

    Vista / XP dual boot

    Hi, I have been running on vista for a while but yesterday I decided to reinstall XP on another partition because of some annoying problems in Vista. But now I cannot boot on Vista anymore... I tried editing boot.ini like that: [boot loader] timeout=30...
  11. EvilCabal

    Floating toolbars

    Hi, for a long time, I have been creating custom toolbars (right click on task bar, toolbars -> new toolbar) and I was always able to detach those toolbars from the main task bar and dock them to the side or top. I accidently closed one of my toolbars and it seems like windows no longer gives...
  12. EvilCabal

    LCD Screen and windex

    Hi, I just read that windex could damage the coating on laptop lcd screens. I did wash my laptop screen with windex once or twice and was curious about if that was enough to damage the coating or if it was unsignificant. Thanks
  13. EvilCabal

    Advice of deficient part

    Hello, my pc has been behaving strangely for some time and now it got to the point where it does not even boot anymore. Problem is that with the symptoms I have I'm having a hard time guessing what is wrong. I'll try to be as precise as possible PC is a PIV 3.2Ghz with an Asus P5AD2...
  14. EvilCabal

    Transparent textbox

    Hi, I have a semi transparent text box. I use setBackground with an alpha value < 255 to make it transparent. When I write something in it and the repaint operation is called, the text box is filled with some garbage from the video memory. What is going on? Thanks.
  15. EvilCabal

    Virus or spyware randomly change current page

    Hi, I am trying to fix a computer with a virus or spyware that does the following things 1. Starts the default browser (firefox) periodically with some ramdom publicity about almost anything 2. Change the current page while I browse. I tried antivir and MS Windows defender without succes...
  16. EvilCabal

    Data structure

    Hi, I'm new to java, what is the equivalent in java of C data structure declared with struct? Thanks!
  17. EvilCabal

    Laptop screen darkens

    Hi, I have an HP laptop, Intel PIII 933Mhz with an Intel 830M graphic adapter. Recently, this problem appeared for no reason: When the laptop boots, everything is fine, but as soon as I move it around the screens flickers and then becomes very dark. I then have to reboot to get a decent...
  18. EvilCabal

    Search return incomplete result

    Hi, It often occurs to me than when I search to whole C drive for a file, windows does not find it or find a few files which match the specified criterion but not all of them. If I repeat the same search on a more specific folder, the missing results than appears (if they are in the specified...
  19. EvilCabal

    Motherboard dying?

    Hi, here are the symptoms. My PC won't boot at all. After the system password I either get a black screen or garbage color and it freezes, even when I unplug all disk drives or when I boot from a diskette (you can see the disk reader read for a second though). The weirdest thing is, if I turn...
  20. EvilCabal

    New fan screw up system

    Hi, I have a ASUS P5AD2 Premium motherboard with an intel pentium 4 processor. I juste swaped the stock fan for a Zalman CPNS 7700-AlCu fan. I wore a anti-static bracelet during the whole process. Since the installation many strange stuff has happened : 1. The PC reboot without a reason...

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