How to reveal password which is hidden behind asterisks
Submitted by admin on Mon, 2006-04-17 11:31.Win *
edit box
Typical case is for example when password is forgotten for dial up connection (and when moreover password is not secret). If Delphi's winspy32 utility is installed, open it and in object
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How to hide account in logon window
Submitted by admin on Sun, 2004-11-28 16:24.WinXP
Windows
XP
Any account may be hidden in logon window when DWORD zero, named as account being hidden, is created in key: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon\SpecialAccounts\UserList.
How to disable CapsLock
Submitted by admin on Sun, 2004-11-28 11:16.WinXP
system
XP
Any key can be disabled or remapped using HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Keyboard Layout key and binary value "Scancode map", see http://www.microsoft.com/whdc/device/input/w2kscan-map.mspx. In this case:
"00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 02 00 00 00 00 00 3A 00 00 00 00 00"Scancodes:
Key Scancode [^] 29 00 [1] 02 00 [2] 03 00 [3] 04 00 [4] 05 00 [5] 06 00 [6] 07 00 [7] 08 00 [8] 09 00 [9] 0A 00 [0] 0B 00 [ß] 0C 00 [´] 0D 00 [Q] 10 00 [W] 11 00 [E] 12 00 [R] 13 00 [T] 14 00 [Z] 15 00 [U] 16 00 [I] 17 00 [O] 18 00 [P] 19 00 [Ü] 1A 00 [+] 1B 00 [<] 2B 00 [A] 1E 00 [S] 1F 00 [D] 20 00 [F] 21 00 [G] 22 00 [H] 23 00 [J] 24 00 [K] 25 00 [L] 26 00 [Ö] 27 00 [Ä] 28 00 [Y] 2C 00 [X] 2D 00 [C] 2E 00 [V] 2F 00 [B] 30 00 [N] 31 00 [M] 32 00 [,] 33 00 [.] 34 00 [-] 35 00 [Enter] 1C 00 [Shift] left 2A 00 [Shift] right 36 00 [Ctrl] left 1D 00 [Ctrl] right 1D E0 [Alt] left 38 00 [Alt] right 38 E0 [Num Lock] 45 00 [Backspace] 0E 00 [Tab] 0F 00 [Caps Lock] 3A 00Nemuric pad:
[7] 47 00 [4] 4B 00 [1] 4F 00 [8] 48 00 [5] 4C 00 [2] 50 00 [0] 52 00 [*] 37 00 [9] 49 00 [6] 4D 00 [3] 51 00 [,] 53 00 [-] 4A 00 [+] 4E 00 [Enter] E0 1C
How activate "Fast Web View" options
Submitted by admin on Sat, 2004-08-28 13:03.Ghost script
8.14
PDF document that has been generated by Ghostscript has not got Fast Web View feature activated. This feature is also known as linearized or optimized PDF. In Ghostscript (>6.20?) does exist Ghost\gs8.14\lib\pdfopt.bat batch that optimizes already existing PDF document. Note that in Ghost\gs8.14\lib\gssetgs.bat must be configured correct Ghostscript pathes. Example script pdfopt_self.bat that will optimize a PDF file that can be executed for example from Total Commander start menu using %P%N parameters:
@echo off if "%~x1/" == ".pdf/" goto doit if "%~x1/" == ".PDF/" goto doit if "%~x1/" == ".Pdf/" goto doit echo File name is not a PDF file %1 exit /B :doit
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Cannot map remote disk on SAMBA server
Submitted by admin on Mon, 2004-03-01 16:20.WinXP
Windows
XP
First change key HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\netlogon\parameters "RequireSignOrSeal"=dword:00000001 to dword:00000000 (http://us1.samba.org/samba/ftp/docs/Registry/WinXP_SignOrSeal.reg).
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Cannot map remote disk
Submitted by admin on Thu, 2004-01-15 16:15.WinXP
Windows
XP
Connection of a notebook (guest, non-domain) failed - cannot map shared resources of a computer in domain. (NET USE X: \\REMOTE\C$)
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add remote machine name to hosts
add new notebook address in LAN range (it switches card to promiscuite mode,
reboot required), now ping should work
add WINS server of LAN
RESTART cmd.exe (cmd.exe does not accept changes)
NET USE X: \\REMOTE\C$ /USER:remote_user
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"Error: incomplete setup Check Phone number" when establishing GPRS connection via IrDA
Submitted by admin on Tue, 2003-12-02 12:58.Palm OS
IrDA
When establishing GPRS communication via IrDA and mobile (Siemens S55) error "Error: incomplete setup Check Phone number" or "PPP timeout error" are raised. Log says that the error occurs at random place during PPP communication. IrDA transmiters probably interfere each other, they are sending in the same time. Solution: change script as noted bellow (Wait for: OK):
How to change synchronization folder
Submitted by admin on Fri, 2003-11-28 15:35.Win *
Pocket Mirror/Hosync
It's necessary to change in registry key "HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\U.S. Robotics\Pilot Desktop\Core" the value of "Path".
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Either BOF or EOF is True, or the current record has been deleted. Requested operation requires a current record
Submitted by admin on Tue, 2003-09-09 11:11.Win *
Delphi 5/ADO
5
This error is raised when attempting operation on ADO dataset. There is mistake in ADODB.PAS libary. Patch is available at http://info.borland.com/devsupport/delphi/mdac26.html. Or compare procedure TCustomADODataSet.InternalClose; with D6.
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Bad encoding of some central-european chars
Submitted by admin on Fri, 2003-08-01 15:32.Win 9x/NT/2000
Outlook
2002/XP
Error: emails sent from Outlook has unreadable (bad code page) particular characters, that are diferent in ISO-8859-2 and Windows-1250 code pages. Change of code page does not help. There was no code page information in received email headers similar to:
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