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How do you set time-slicing for Windows XP I know that Windows XP is not a RTOS. Just wondering if any experts around knows how to set the time-slice of the scheduler to maybe 5ms or so. I do know the approximate time-slice by default is around 10ms to 15ms per quantum depending on OS and no if processors. I have read the API32 but couldn't find anythin... 14 Aug 2008 01:09
CreateSymbolicLink doesn't fail on 64-bit if process doesn'thave sufficient privileges Hi Ben! But if the prototype is wrong, the compiler doesn't insert an implicit (widening) conversion. The function sets only the low byte to zero, the caller tests the whole word against zero. Problem because the upper bits contain random garbage. According to CCP it is defined in Vista-RTM as fol... 8 Aug 2008 03:49
TerminateProcess fails with ERROR_ACCESS_DENIED because of COM object ?? My program starts up a second process, this other process then does various things including creating a COM object. If the main program detects that the second process is hung, it tries to call TerminateProcess() to make the second process go away. The problem is, TerminateProcess() sometimes fails with ERROR_ACC... 8 Aug 2008 08:55
16 bite executable name against ntvdm process in task manager I want to get the name of the file from which the ntvdm process is launched. Actually In windows when i execute any 16 bit application, windows launch ntvdm.exe against it. Now , i have ntvdm.exe running in task manager and want to known form which 16 bit executable its launched. Is there is any way to do it... 7 Aug 2008 05:15
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batch execution in cmd.exe slows I apologize if this is the wrong group to ask this. If so, please redirect me. I have an comsole app that is launched via batch file. The batch file has two lines that launch the app with a command line that tells the app what to do. The first time the app is executed (via the first line in the batch file) i... 8 Aug 2008 22:18
Unlock Workstation Programmatically,... Well, there are a couple of applications out there who can lock and unlock a workstation server by code. So my question is, how they do that or what the common way of doing this is,... I know all the GINA stuff, but is there another documented way of doing this? Regards Kerem -- -------------------... 6 Aug 2008 15:55
Executing an Unmanaged Exe from Memory I've been trying to find a way to execute an unmanaged executable from memory; I know that a managed assembly can be embedded into a resource, loaded with Assembly.Load, and invoked.... but I can't find a way to embed an unmanaged executable and run it from memory. Can anyone help me? Could I possibly injec... 7 Aug 2008 03:12
WDF - User Mode Driver Framework - COM port driver Hello I hit the group again with similiar question but I still want to clarify some open points. Is it possible to use WDF UMDF (User Mode Driver Framework) and write a user mode driver for COM port. I need a driver that exists as a COM driver (so OpenComPort/WriteFile/ReadFile) for COM device are handled by it ... 5 Aug 2008 14:14
STATUS_ILLEGAL_INSTRUCTION returned by ZwQueryDirectoryFile() I'm calling ZwQueryDirectoryFile() from user mode code to get file ID and change time during a directory scan, and its returning STATUS_ILLEGAL_INSTRUCTION. Anyone see what I'm doing wrong? NT::IO_STATUS_BLOCK iosb; memset( &iosb, 0, sizeof( iosb ) ); NT::UNICODE_STRING name = { strP... 4 Aug 2008 19:48 |