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My new desktop with Vista Home Premium seems to be restarting automatically now and then. Unfortunately, it doesn't happen when I'm around. I checked the events through eventvwr but it just says the system restarted unexpectedly (and gives some binary junk I can't understand). I have disabled the possible causes …

Consider this situation: [code=c++] class Sample { std::string str; public: Sample(string &s) { // line 1 // line 2 str = s; // line 4 throw exception; } ~Sample() { } } [/code] So I have a string member variable, and I have assigned it to the parameter passed to …

In a certain dll, there is this function: [code] typedef DWORD STDAPICALLTYPE SOMEFUNC(VOID *pHandle, IProgress *pProgress);[/code] where IProgress is [code]class IProgress { public: virtual void Update(UINT progress) = 0; };[/code] To pinvoke this from C#, I tried the following: [code] [DllImport("THE_DLL.dll", SetLastError = true)] static extern void SomeFunc(IntPtr handle, Progress …

Could someone let me know of a free PC game recorder that runs on Vista? In particular, I want to record Hitman 2 Silent Assassin game play.

I have Vista Home Premium. I installed all my favorite software, like IZArc, VLC etc. I know that they all integrate to the right click menu with options like "Extract here" and "Play with VLC". However, I don't see any of these options after install (they appear on XP). The …

I've been having this dumb question on my mind for long. Suppose I make a copy of c:\Windows folder to an external store... At some point, let's say my OS doesn't boot due to corrupted system files (for now, forget MBR corruption and hard disk failure)... if I boot into …

I have a 75 GB USB drive that is NTFS formatted (can't use FAT or FAT32 coz I get a "drive too big" error). I want to be able to install bootsectors on this drive so that I can boot into DOS. I use Win XP. Please give me a …