Best way is to use a named mutex. Start your application. Create a new named mutex and take ownership over it Start a new process (process not thread) or a new application, what you preffer. From that process / application try to aquire the mutex. The process will block When application finish release the mutex … Read more
Using the netsh interface Usage set interface [name = ] IfName [ [admin = ] ENABLED|DISABLED [connect = ] CONNECTED|DISCONNECTED [newname = ] NewName ] Try including everything inside the outer brackets: netsh interface set interface name=”thename” admin=disabled connect=DISCONNECTED newname=”thename” See also this MS KB page: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/262265/ You could follow either of their suggestions. For … Read more
For testing, I set the screensaver to 1 minute and required a password. I tried capturing SC_SCREENSAVE and returning -1 in VB .Net. As commented, it works when there is no screensaver password but fails if the screensaver password is active. (I tried it in Windows XP). I also put this into a Timer’s tick … Read more
The worst way is to send to Recycle Bin: you still need to delete them. Next worst is shift+delete with Windows Explorer: it wastes loads of time checking the contents before starting deleting anything. Next best is to use rmdir /s/q foldername from the command line. del /f/s/q foldername is good too, but it leaves … Read more
This eclipsecoding FAQ page does confirm your diagnostic: When the CLASSPATH gets too long, the program cannot be launched (at least under Windows) – try to shorten your classpath. In the case of a plugin, you can try to remove unnecessary required plugins. And you have here a thread detailing the log errors. Since you … Read more
One problem with Bluetooth on the PC is that there are several BT stacks in use and you can never quite know which one is available on a given machine. The most common ones are Widcomm (now Broadcom) and Microsoft (appeared in XP, maybe one of the service packs). However, some BT hardware vendors package … Read more
This happens because Oracle dropped support for Windows XP (which doesn’t have RegDeleteKeyExA used by the installer in its ADVAPI32.DLL by the way) as described in http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/openjfx-dev/2013-July/009005.html. Yet while the official support for XP has ended, the Java binaries are still (as of Java 8u20 EA b05 at least) XP-compatible – only the installer isn’t… … Read more
This answer is unix-ish, but I think a similar phenonemon is happening on Windows. The underlying form of an EOF is a zero-length read. On interactive input devices (terminals), there is a special mechanism for having an EOF in the input stream, but if there’s already input to be read, it will be consumed along … Read more
Another solution I have found that isn’t perfect in my opinion, but doesn’t have the annoying security warnings is to use clip.exe from a w2k3 server. Set WshShell = WScript.CreateObject(“WScript.Shell”) WshShell.Run “cmd.exe /c echo hello world | clip”, 0, TRUE Example with a multiline string as per question below : Link1 Dim string String = … Read more
To install android component do following steps Run android sdk manager on offline machine Click on show/hide log window here youu will find all the list of xml files where packages are available Fetching https://dl-ssl.google.com/android/repository/addons_list-2.xml Fetched Add-ons List successfully Fetching URL: https://dl-ssl.google.com/android/repository/repository-7.xml Validate XML: https://dl-ssl.google.com/android/repository/repository-7.xml Parse XML: https://dl-ssl.google.com/android/repository/repository-7.xml https://dl-ssl.google.com/android/repository/addons_list-2.xml is main xml file where all … Read more