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Closed 12 years ago.
Anyone know where I can find a list of the different hidden shortcuts built into windows like "control userpasswords2".
I'm building a small app that will help my team get to those buried panels such as the pagefile settings, IE's proxy settings, Editing the Boot.ini
***I am not talking about shortcut keys like ctrl+alt+del. But commands you can put into the run dialog.
Thank you
To elaborate more, I'm looking for a list like MS KB192806 & commands, & another. That gives me some of the commands I'm looking for like "control intl.cpl". However I'm looking for others that are not in that list and I would like more control. For example to go strait to the connections tab when running "control intl.cpl".
You can find control panel specific list here:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/192806
For your application, I would recommend you to design the required interfaces and take the input from user directly in to your application. After that, you can make the user defined changes from your program. Most (not all) of these settings are stored in registry which you can modify appropriately. Its easy to find the required registry key by searching on net or using some monitoring tools (like regmon or procmon).
Also note that, just setting the registry values will not always update the configuration immediately. Some setting changes have to be notified to the respective programs.
There are few similar software already available on the net, which can do management of few basic stuffs.
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Is there a way to determine what software tool was used to create a specific exe file? For example I'd like to find out if Delphi or Visual Studio or [Fill in the Blank] was used to create a program.
UPDATE:
I'm using a program called FoxtrotOne from www.enablesoft.com that uses a script and a datafile. The program acts just like a person sitting at the keyboard doing data updates. I've been continually monitoring the task manager and the FoxtroneOne.exe and the memory continues to climb as it loops through the dataset.
I've been told by the tech support guy to close IE after every 100 records because it's holding onto memory. My script interacts with a web application.
I'm convinced that there is a memory leak within FoxtrotOne. If I could determine what IDE they used I could suggest what low level tool they should use. For example if Delphi created this exe then I would suggest they install madExcept to check for memory leaks.
FINAL UPDATE:
I used Exeinfo PE to detrmine FoxtrotOne was created with Visual Basic 5.0 - 6.0
Open the EXE in a hex editor (such as HxD), and you might get a lot of clues. For instance, if you find a lot of VCL-related strings like TLabel, TForm, etc., it is probably an Embarcadero tool.
You might also open the EXE in a resource editor (such as XN Resource Editor) to get more clues:
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Closed 10 years ago.
I am wondering if there is any software that can create a software with shortcuts inside another?
Like if you want to make an web editor you cold say that if you press that button it will write:
<html></html>
And use a browser to render?
If there is no software like this, is it possible to make?
Maybe I am wrong, but I think it will be a breakthrough for opensource development.
I am not a skilled developer so that I won't manage to make something like this, but I want to start a group to do this, with making a website for it. Do you think someone wants to help me or maybe one of you?
I have searched the web for something like this but haven’t found anything.
Edit:
I know this was quite bad formulated and am going to explain this again.
And what I mean is not a web editor, but a software developer application.
The web designer was just a example.
Imagine yourself that you have a UI designer whose you can import other software’s in and then you drag a button in to the screen, and on the settings you say that when you click that button the software will go into one of the software’s you’d imported and do something.
The software I am asking for is this software developer software.
Edit again:
I will do a second attempt to clarify:
You know about bots right? Those who fly around on the web and to crazy things as cheeking hotel prizes to playing poker.
I only wonder about if you cold make a new GUI like QT or GTK that would emulate a certain keyboard event or mouse gesture when clicking a button. And were to get started when doing so.
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/linux-newbie-8/kompozer-problems-733285/#post3580690
There's several powerful web editors in a list composed by someone there. It includes editors with a WYSIWYG.
Aptana studio is what I use which can use different browsers to render. It also has a built-in web server so that you can test AJAX requests and php rendering.
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Closed 10 years ago.
I have an application I wrote in VB6 and it needs to run right after the user logs in but before the desktop actually loads. Why you ask, well I'll tell you. The VB app asks the user for some information that is validated against an external database. if the validation fails then the user should not be allowed to login, hence the VB app forces a logout. I've read some articles about msGina.dll and the logon process but I still am not finding a viable solution. any ideas on this one?
Ideally, you'd want to write your own GINA provider to modify the login mechanism in Windows. Understand, however, that this is a serious undertaking, will require you to write your code in C/C++ and you have to be very, VERY careful about how you build it so as to not open-up several backdoors and vulnerabilities and so that you don't destabilize the rest of Windows.
Your VB6 app is NOT the way to go in this scenario for a multitude of reasons, not least of which are the fact that it's pretty trivial to intercept and bypass your security mechanism entirely.
Buildng a login mechanism seems like a piece of cake until you REALLY start digging into how to build one that's rock solid and bomb-proof. I know this because I once lead a team building a custom GINA for a European government's secure desktops!
If you're certain you DO want to go build a custom GINA, then take a look at these overview articles:
Customizing GINA, Part 1
Customizing GINA, Part 2
A GINA is one option, but only for Windows XP. The equivalent for Windows Vista and later is a credential provider.
As an alternative, you can change the initial user process by changing the Userinit value in this registry key:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon
If you do this, make sure your application launches userinit when it is done, or the user's shell won't be started. Note that this will not prevent knowledgeable users from bypassing your application, at least not without further steps.
A credential manager can interact with the user during the logon process, but I don't believe it provides any direct way of rejecting the logon. It might be possible to hack something together but I wouldn't recommend it.
I believe a group policy client-side extension is capable of rejecting a user logon, but I'm not familiar with this technology.
This is a very strange approach to security, you could take a look at the "Autoexec.bat" file although I haven't messed around with this myself. Either way I suspect the user could probably "End Task" your VB6 app from the task manager and head about their merry way.
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Closed 11 years ago.
Is OSX Lion (or older OSX) release of Preview scriptable?
Preview is not now, and have never been AppleScript-able, which does suck. It'd be nice if it were, though.
From this blog:
However, from 10.4–10.6 it was possible to enable the default Cocoa
scripting support via these Terminal commands:
sudo defaults write /Applications/Preview.app/Contents/Info
NSAppleScriptEnabled -bool YES
sudo chmod a+r /Applications/Preview.app/Contents/Info.plist
This was sufficient to
be able to get at the file of the current document to delete it,
change its Finder label, import it into EagleFiler, etc. Under 10.7,
modifying the Info.plist file breaks the application’s code signature.
I would expect this to cause a harmless warning message in the
Console, but it actually causes Preview to crash.
If you want to find out if Preview (or any other application) is Applescriptable, then just try File > Open Dictionary in Script Editor.
This is described in Apple's documentation here.
If you really need to script it, you could always use GUI scripting. This method allows you to script any application, although it can be ugly and tedious to get it to work. Only use as a last resort.
You can find more information here : http://www.macosxautomation.com/applescript/uiscripting/index.html
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I want to make a iis log viewer for websites I develop. I know there are utilities already developed out there, for e.g http://visuallogparser.codeplex.com/ , but I want to develop something of my own. Couple of questions I've is, how can I access files on the windows 2003 server.The log files are stored in a particular folder on the server. I've to manually open the files and then look through them for the information that might be relevant.
The first problem I see is being able to first get this file as input to let's say perl or python for file processing and then the issue of sorting and filtering data as is desired. Also getting a GUI for this.
I've no clue in what language or any framework this can be build. Looking for guidance here.
Personally, I think C# is head-and-shoulders above the competition for building standalone GUIs. It also has good support for parsing text, including decent support for regular expressions.
According to http://www.sqlservercentral.com/Forums/Topic525288-146-1.aspx you can just run a query to find out where your SQL-Server instance keeps it's log (and data) files.
If you're just starting out programming it'd be a real good idea to work through "the basics" in tutorials before you get started on project like this. Once you "feel ready" then have a go, looking for tutorials/discussion on each aspect as it arrises... and if you get stuck you can ask more specific questions right here.
One other piece of advise: Before you start coding this sort of thing sit down and do a mock-up of the interface. Workout what operations you want to perform. Analysing the problem WHILE you attempt to code a solution is a CLASSIC recipe for spending a lot of time to get not-much done. You need clear goals BEFORE you start coding... and then, of course, you "adapt" your goals as you learn more... as you go along... But it REALLY helps to be clear about what (roughly) you want before you start.
It might help you to use a couple of those existing log-presenters. Find-out what other people have done... what THEY find useful. If you find a particular functionality useful then you could attempt to copy-cat it... or maybe something someone else has done just gets you wondering "HOW do they do that?" and that get's your creative juices running.
finally, The blank canvas is the scariest one. Just get SOMEthing really simple working, and then add functionality to that, iteratively.
Cheers. Keith.