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I couple of weeks ago I started getting a little shield down at the bottom (by the clock) that says "Your Computer is Infected!". When I click on this, it brings up a box that says "Would you like to update your security software and download Registry Cleaner?" I don't want the "Registry...

While trying to set up windows 98 on an IBM 6549-UN4 machine... I am able to boot from floppy (Windows 98 Startup Disk) go to CD ROM and Setup Windows 98 from the CD, with no problem. However, as soon as Windows 98 Loads for the first time, It asks me for mY Windows 98 Disk, and suddenly the...

I'm trying to programmatically set the screen resolution in VB .net but can't figure it out. I've googled all over the web, scoured the newsgroups, but the only thing I found was a program that supposedly does this, but seems to not work at all in VB.Net... funny thing this program is in most of...

I am using a splash screen with a button on it. When the user presses the button, the splash screen hides itself and shows the main program form. When I close this form, I want to also make sure the hidden splash screen closes. Here is the code I am using to hide the splash form and open form1...

I have a multi-line textbox control on my form. I am programmatically entering text into the text box with Textbox1.Text = "this text" & vbNewLine & "next line" etc. I have the Verticle Scroll bars set on the textbox. What I would like to know is how to automaticall scroll the text to the...

Hello, I'm building a simple form, with a textbox and no buttons. I have it so that when a user presses the Enter Key it will simply add the text to a list (as well as writing it to a file) and then blank the line waiting for another line of text. Everything is working great, except I cannot...

I have an eMachine eTower 400i3 computer which is having what appears to be a hardware related problem. When you press the power buttong, the computer will shut down and immediately come back on. According to the owner, they have already tried to chance the switch, but with no luck. I was...

Hi, I'm working on a program which uses the word.application method to check spelling of a current textbox. A snippet of the code is below. Basically, it all works grand, except that WORD is loaded in memory and stays there, even after the application exits. This also causes problems on...

Hi, I am trying to write a program, where there are two listboxes. I would like the first listbox to be populated with the shortcuts of the startup folder, and the second to be populated with programs and services that are set to run at startup in the registry key. What I would like to know is...

I need to know how to copy files that are currently in use by the system or other programs. Mainly I need to copy the registry files, and other system files. Is there anyway of basically unlocking the files to allow them to be moved, or maybe some kind of low level process? Would appreciate any...

Hi, I need to know the location of the users document folder, in order to manipulate the ntuser.dat file (for system backup). Can somebody tell me hot to get the location of the system folder (eq:"C:\Documents and Settings\Username.COMPUTER" or "C:\Documents and Settings\UserName") TIA John...

Hi, and I need to know where the following might be found in Windows XP... names/folders/etc. Where is the system registry file located? What are the boot files and where are they located? Where is the COM+ Class registration Database located? If someone could help me with this, I would be...

Hi, and I need to know where the following might be found in Windows ME... names/folders/etc. Where is the system registry file located? What are the boot files and where are they located? Where is the COM+ Class registration Database located? If someone could help me with this, I would be...

Hi, and I need to know where the following might be found in Windows 98... names/folders/etc. Where is the system registry file located? What are the boot files and where are they located? Where is the COM+ Class registration Database located? If someone could help me with this, I would be...

I am designing part of a backup program for windows. There will be several different forms for front-ends and I need to write a self-standing module which I can call from different programs/forms. I have a function that checks the windows version, finds different directors and files and then...

I need to figure hot to take string a, and find the number of occurances of string be within string a. I'm pretty sure this can be done with the Insr() function. I also need for it to find a string like "the dog runs" in a string such as "the big dog always runs away" as 1 instance of string A...

Part of a utility I am working gets the text in a word document and puts this in a (multi-line) textbox. I have no problem opening the doc and getting the information I need (using the automation method for Word)... only problem is there are non-ascii formatting characters in the text, which I...

Hi, I'm trying to populate the list box in a form based on data from a different form. Basically, what I want to do is take all the selected items from a filelist and put them in a listbox on another form. This is the code I am using, which (needless to say) doesn't work. The list I am...

Hi, I am trying to simply get the free disk space of Drive C, but it seems no matter what method I use I either Get an overflow, or I get 0k. Here's basically what I have: -------------------Begin Code------------------------- Private Declare Function GetDiskFreeSpace Lib "kernel32.dll" Alias...

I'm designing a fuel inventory system in access allowing one to enter pump and tank information in a gas station... I have several fields for various tank measurements, and pump readings. In the tank measurements I have a field for water measurement, which tells how much water is in the fuel (if...