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As part of our product we use 3rd party hardware and drivers. Unfortunately, these drivers aren't signed so up pops the "Found new hardware wizard" when installing or upgrading our product. Our product is web based and allows the users access to everything they need remotely, apart from this one case.
Is there a registry hack or other OS setting that will stop the wizard appearing?
Can we sign the drivers ourselves?
Could we write a program that would click "Next, Next, Next" on the wizard that will work on all language variants of Windows?
There is 2 ways to get silent installation:
1) Sign the driver and that can be hard/impossible if you don't have the driver source code.
2) You can write a co-installer dll using this api's. The problem that this is not reliable and from our experience there is a lot of workarounds for different Windows flavors.
The only 100% reliable option will be option one.
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I have been using cracked/ pirated windows and many more software like photoshop etc. Recently I came to know about all the malware & viruses they may contain so I want to use all genuine software. If I remove previous windows key and add purchased windows key will it become malwareless? Because I do not want to lose any data by reinstalling windows. Also If I uninstall cracked applications will it also remove malware that came with it?
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"Technically, however, they represent different philosophies: the ARM architecture is designed to be as simple as possible, to keep energy wastage to a minimum, whereas Intel's range uses a more complex design that benefits from compatibility with the company's (much more power-hungry) desktop and laptop CPUs." Well then why can't I run Windows on a raspberry Pi? Also, what is start4.elf?
Microsoft seems to know there are issues with Windows on ARM because it won't even sell you a copy of it. The company licenses the ARM version only to OEMs to pre-install on new systems. When asked if it would open up sales so people could run Windows on the new Macs, Microsoft said it had no plans at this time.
Start4.elf is a file that raspberry pi uses to boot.
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I am looking for a way to remotely install a program to other computer units running Windows on the fly ,without the need of running the installer steps on each computer (next,next,finish...) all over again , .exe installers don't usually have an easy way to do this without using the GUI installer.
a solution that i came up with , running the installer on a single pc
and try to trace each file the installer adds (location,file names,registry files) using FileSystemWatcher then copy these files and send them to the desired hosts that need the program installed with the location of each file will this work ? is there any easier implementation
the problem with FileSystemWatcher that although it detectes which files have been added,edited or deleted its not capable to tell which process did the change ,Why would i need to know ?,other programs depends alot on files and will keep editing them so i need to isolate the installer process to easily study how its functioning and what files are added..
the only way that i know to overcome this problem is developing a file system filter driver...
please give me your opinion or some recommendations on which is the best way to do this ,sorry for my bad english .
Almost every modern installer has some way to perform a silent install. You may need to do some digging to find the answers, or ask the publisher. Try running the installer with /? as a command line switch and see what it tells you.
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How do you prevent access to the 'calculator' interface on a particular OS (say Windows). We would want to avoid usage of calculators while taking an online quiz at the site. Is this even possible?
If you're talking about through a purely web interface, then no. In order to do this, you would have to be able to monitor running processes, which is something a web app can't do. It would be too big a security risk.
If you control the machines (they're on your network, in a classroom where you can load and restrict the software, etc), you could write a program to monitor and shut down the processes. For example, a .NET application could use the System.Diagnostocs.Process object to monitor for instances of calc.exe.
A standard executable could do it, but not a web app.
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There may be other alternatives if you control the PCs in question. Most corporate IT shops use some sort of monitoring software that will detect the use of "Unauthorized" programs. (I got busted for launching Solitaire once.) That would be more of a question for ServerFault.com, however.
Do you think it would be a good idea if websites were able to stop executable running on remote computers? Think about this seriously for a second, the security/privacy implications this would have.
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HI
I'm moving a visual basic 6 application from one machine to another, however this application is quite old and uses a lot of third party components (.ocx files) that we have lost the license key for.
Is there any way to get the license key off the old machine for use on the new machine?
Once the application can be built on the new machine, the old machine will be decommissioned and all data erased.
I keep my VB6 dev kit in a VM image for this sort of reason - getting a working development state can be a hard-fought battle for VB6 stuff, but it also has the tendency to soil it's own house by filling it with left-over bits of dead COM components. So if I install new tools or components, I do it in the base snapshot, then restore any required bits into a new snapshot for that project.
Not really a helpful answer for your current predicament... but hopefully helpful for long-term legacy VB6 maintenance.