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How can you manually begin Windows XP's Windows Update without entering to http://update.microsoft.com/windowsupdate with IE?
Started by voyager on
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I am not sure if it will apply to normal online updating but it is worth mentioning... .
I force detect with:
wuauclt.exe /detectnow
To troubleshoot machines updating from my WSUS server .
There should be an icon in your start menu (all programs) for that .
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Hi, Why we have to manually start the disk defragmenter in Windows XP?.
Started by phoenix on
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If an operating system did that without....
Because it is very disk intensive and it can slow down your system a lot .
Here's Microsoft's page on how schedule defragmentation with XP.
You can make the computer automatically start it for you .
You don't have to.
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I want to reduce the number of running services to the minimum. Can I set all services that start up automatically to manual, so that it is only started when required. Or will this make my Windows XP system instable?
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Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at serverfault):
Now for the most hardcore answer to your question, Mark Russinovich's blog post Running Windows with No Services is definitely worth....
Look under "Popular Content".
Are considered by many to be the bible of windows services optimization.
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I have a program whose uninstall program is giving me grief, it has an error partway through uninstall, stops and rolls back.
I would like to uninstall this product manually so what is the best way to go about doing this?
Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at superuser):
And in the Windows registry and shows all found files, folders and registry keys so you can delete them.
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I need to connect to a Bluetooth device through virtual COM port created in Windows. It's easy when the port has been already created during manual pairing procedure. But I would like my application to relieve an user from the manual pairing of a device...
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Specific code for all of them.The other solution is to allow user for manual pairing of the Bluetooth.
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Briefly, a manual reset event is a synchronization construct which is either in the "signaled" or "nonsignaled" state. In the signaled state, any thread which calls a wait function on the event will not block and execution will continue unaffected. Any...
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Very roughly, I envisage something along the lines of....
See Ulrich Drepper's paper on Futexes for the gory details .
It's Linux-only (I only mention it because you have a "linux" tag), but I think you could build something like this on the futex syscall .
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I have a production server and need to know what version of the windows installer is running, what's a quick way to find this out without running the 4.5 installer on the server?
Started by Nick Kavadias on
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EG: Windows.
From a command prompt:
msiexec /?
It displays the version on the first line .
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Just that. I would like some information (links, reference, examples...) to guide me to do that.
I don't even know if it's possible.
My objective is to compile a program in Linux and get a .exe file that I can run under windows.
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This however....
Once you get your head around that, you could use autotools , and set CC that you want to use an existing Linux application on Windows, then you could try compiling it using cygwin on Windows.
A hello.exe for Windows.
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Hi,
If I have a windows service on a server, what is 'best practise' for updating the service? (say there was a bug in it, or I need to ad more features to it).
Is there a way I could shutdown the service, patch it and get it up and running in a more ...
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Leveraging installers will make your task much conversation here:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/106765/i-want-my-c-windows-service.
InstallShield supports Windows Services.
This though...
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Our CD autostarts, but occasionally customers have that disabled (by a CD burner, etc.).
As a backup, we include instructions on the back of our CD (below). I'm trying to find better instructions, for Windows XP and above. (Ideally for Windows 98 and ...
Started by Clay Nichols on
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You could ask them to press that key combination, and that will at least get them an Explorer window.
Well, the Windows+E key will bring up Windows Explorer.
Autorun.inf and start.exe on the CD's root.
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