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I cannot access the serial port, COM1:. I used to be able to but now any app, such as Hyperterminal, that tries to open COM1: puts up a small info window that says "Unable to open COM1. Please check your port settings." Any idea what might be causing this? According …

The backstory: We had a "power issue" here a few days ago and now our Samsung SyncMaster 931b is not working. The blue power light around the button flashes and every second or so the display will flicker with light and you can briefly (for 200ms or so, I'd guess) …

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I have been working with Amway for a while, but can not get any people to my website to take a look at the products. I have tried Graigslist and some other websites to advertise my website, but it did not work for some reason! Please Help! Thank You guys! …

For the past couple days, sometimes when I click on something it acts like I double clicked. It doesn't happen all the time, just enough to be annoying. I searched the forum and only found one other thread where someone had this problem, but there was no resolution posted there. …

I am using MCI controls to play media files within some software. For the most part, it works OK but sometimes things go poorly (e.g. when the media file is corrupt). How can I either put the code into a try/catch (i.e. what exception do I look for?) or how …

Hey all I need to convert audio file of wav format into text file in order to feed it as input to an encryption algorithm(IBE encrypt method of [URL="http://www.shamus.ie/"]Miracl[/URL] library takes only texts as input) and have to reconvert the decrypted text file to audio format. Could you please suggest …

[B][COLOR="Green"]Hello, I am writing a PhD thesis and require some help numbering my figures and tables. I use Word 2003 and would like Word to restart numbering of my figures and tables after each chapter (NOTafter each section). For example, captions of figures/tables in Chapter 1 should read Figure/Table 1.1, …

Hi, I am currently using [COLOR="Red"]Windows 7 professional (64-bit)[/COLOR] in my desktop. But i want to use Linux concurrently to Windows. Every time i try to install Linux using Live-CD,[COLOR="red"] it gets struck in the process[/COLOR]. I just see the Icon for a few minutes then my PC hangs. I …

I would like to be able to dynamically load and display images in a Windows application written in an old version of MS Visual C++. I'm currently using functions as given [URL="http://forums.devx.com/showthread.php?t=89505"]here[/URL] by Karl Lilje. The pictures display fine when they are supposed to but they are not "persistent" (by …

does anybody know library for c/c++ to catch presses of keys like ctrl+shift+foo or fn+f7 etc. ?

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:) Hello, I am making a C++ console application where the user can encrypt and decrypt text. So far, I have successfully made the encryption part, but am not quite sure how to make the decryption part. For example: abcb -> 128.70.88.70. but I can't make it go back to …

I have an HP motherboard model # 583366-001 and whenever I attempt to install Windows 7 I get a message stating that my cd/dvd driver is missing. I've tried three different hard drives and two different cd drives IDE, sata and usb and I still get the same error message. …

Hello, guys. I found useful stuff so far. I'd like to ask if someone can give me some ideas how to wandering guards or set switches to open certain doors in a maze game in c++? At the moment I am thinking just to add some bits, can someone give …

Hi! I develop the app, that must be binded to hardware-specific information. This is a part of license protection scenario. The serial number of motherboard must be obtained. How to do it under Windows ?

I'm using the function CInternetSession::OpenURL in a "try" to open a webpage (a servelet which returns XML). The servelet take a little while to respond sometimes (around 13-15 seconds in a web browser). When it's slow like this, the code catches a CInternetException. Is there a way to see what …

[B][U]Short version:[/U][/B] Windows 7 appears to be losing changes made to text files if the PC loses power, even if the changes have been saved. Why would it be doing this and how can I make the changes stick? I need the changes to be persistent even if there is …

I can make a program fire up at start up by dragging it to the start-menu->programs->startup-folder. This program needs one of the windows services to be able to function correctly. Occasionally, at boot, this program experiences a problem that is somewhat specific to that required service (which is set to …

this was probably a bad idea to begin with since i've never messed with multithreading or the sapi... but i got the sapi working on its own, but when I put it in its own thread it wont speak anymore. I've tried over and over and over.... i'm not sure …

Hello: I am using the Apache James SMTP with Blat for a front end with "localhost" as the mail server to send emails from a machine; however, not all emails are being delivered. Messages are delivered fine to addresses at GMail, although they are sent to the spam folder and …

I want to make an ISO file in Mac, is there any easy way to do it? Please help.. :(

Hello all, I'm putting together a cheap computer, here is a couple of the things i have, a GIGABYTE GA-MA770T-UD3P mobo, AMD Phenom II X2 550 processor, and G.SKILL 4GB (2 x 2GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1600 (PC3 12800) ram. My question is, I believe that i saw somewhere …

I airfreight a flat screen hp monitor. On reaching the destination, the monitor came on but the display was unsteady and at times switch off and on intermittently. Please how do fix this error. Thanks Gabriel

Using visual studio 2008 I created a small vc++ project and ran it using the exe created. The problem is the exe runs fine on my PC. But when I tried to run the exe on an another PC it gave the error "The application has failed to start because …

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Hello, I'm using code as shown below to play the first [i]duration[/i] milliseconds of a media file [CODE] MCIWndHome(m_Audio); MCIWndPlayTo(m_Audio, duration); [/CODE] This works fine to only play the first [i]duration[/i] milliseconds when the length of the audio file is greater than [i]duration[/i], but if the audio is longer than …

I am trying to play some audio from within a program using [ICODE]MCIWndPlay(m_Audio);[/ICODE] or [ICODE]MCIWndPlayTo(m_Audio, duration);[/ICODE] type calls. The program is getting the path of the media from an RSS feed and the audio can be either an MP3 file or a streaming MP3 (either progressive download or actual streaming …

I'm sure this is not the right place to post this, but I thought I'd shout out to everyone to see if there's anyone can help. I have GOT to get off the internet more and I remember vaguely in the back of my mind from a million years ago …

i just bought my new mp3 player yesterday i didn't recieve a manual and would like one so can navigate it .Please respond SNIP