How can VS2010 setup continue as an elevated admin after reboot? This has nothing to do with "kernel", but any service running as SYSTEM or scheduled task like others mentioned(which could run as SYSTEM) can do whatever it wants. Not to mention that Windows Installer itself runs as a service. See also these articles which cover several OS'es: Description of the RunOnceEx Re... 23 Apr 2010 17:53
SmartCard removal monitoring in GINA under Terminal Services / Citrix We have a cascading GINA that supports a proprietery SmartCard logon for XP and 2003. Now it needs also to support this SmartCard logon on Terminal Services and Citrix. The problem I am having and don't fully understand is that the SmartCard removal on a re-connected session is not recognized. First let me explain... 26 Apr 2010 05:52
log(0) causing a crash on one particular windows XP (SP3) machine Hi All, we have a VC++ 2008 application (written in C++) which links against msvcp90.dll. When we run it on win XP (SP3) system and open the file dialog (internally GetOpenFileName) and select a file in the opened dialog and do a Ctrl+C then we see msvcp71.dll gets loaded due to Ctrl +C press. But on one of our... 20 Apr 2010 16:15
Determining 'transient' nature of file I want to determine whether a file is 'transient', i.e. in a 'non permanent' location. Specifically I want to know if it is in one of these places: 1. On a network drive/volume. 2. On a removable drive/volume. 3. In a 'temporary' location such as Temporary Internet Files. Is there an API that makes this e... 18 Apr 2010 04:16
Named pipe client and server PIDs Hi, Vista/2K8 introduced Win32 functions GetNamedPipeClientProcessId and GetNamedPipeServerProcessId. Is this data already available in older Windows NT kernels and if so, is there a way to fetch this information from user space? Thanks, Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Cygwin Project Co-Leader Red Hat ... 17 Apr 2010 11:53
Question about NtfsDisable8dot3NameCreation and Volumes <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> <meta content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1" http-equiv="Content-Type"> </head> <body bgcolor="#ffffff" text="#000000"> <blockquote cite="mid:e40d1a67-8135-4c92-8c4d-8ebc649feed6(a)q23g2000yqd.googlegroups.com" type="cite"> <p... 15 Apr 2010 15:52
Problem with getting handle to a device Hello, I have written a test driver with WDK and now I want to send a message to it with DeviceIoControl from Kernel32.dll. I have written a Wrapper for .NET for DeviceIoControl and CreateFile Function. The Driver is running and I can see it listet in the Device Manager. Its name is "TestDriver3". I use ... 13 Apr 2010 06:11
How to Call Ntxxx APIs from Kernel? Hi All, I am trying to call Ntxxx (e.g. NtCreateFile) routines from a driver i have written. I tried two ways. 1- Simply call the routine as you would call any other system routine while in kernel. 2- Recalculate addresses from ntoskernl.exe. These addresses are of various calls SSDT is pointing to. The... 20 Apr 2010 16:15
"windows error recovery" tigger in Win7? Hi, What is the trigger that causes the "windows error recovery" to show up in Win7? Is it NTFS dirty flag? PageFile Flag (doesn't appear to be)? Registry Entry Flag? File Flag? TIA!! ... 28 Apr 2010 14:01
ThreadPool's IO component Hi, In my server application, I use windows thread pool for handling client requests. I also issue overlapped IO requests from thread pool threads but those overlapped IOs are associated with an IO completion port. Should I use QueueUserWorkItem with WT_EXECUTEINIOTHREAD in this case? MSDN says: "Note that c... 8 Apr 2010 14:01 |