Every time we configure a new server at the agency where I work,
we wind up running into different permissions problems. Neither
the programmers nor the professional systems administrators (some
of whom seem pretty good at other Windows tasks) can figure out
the ideal way to configure permissions. Time and again, in order
to make some application work, we wind up just granting all
rights on a file or directory to everyone and pray that our
firewall and virus checkers will protect us.

There seem to be a large number of exotic objects in the system,
"users" and "groups" that don't appear anywhere else, special
permission types that show up on one file or directory that
aren't seen anywhere else, inheritance that works most of the
time, but not all of the time, etc.

Hi all!
I would display an integers or other variavbles(non char) in my messageboxes
anybody knows how to do this?

Hi,
I am trying to develop a application using win32(for some
project reasons). We could have used MFC. But we are stuck with a
situation where there are no sources documenting the process of
creating a checkbox and handling events related to checkbox. I have
created the checkbox using the resource editor but now I need the glue
to stick it to the dialog. Could somebody point to some win32 sources.
I tried MSDN with no luck. Any help will be useful. Same is the case
with radiobuttons.
Thanks
Sunil

Hi,

I have created an Internet Explorer toolbar plugin and would like to
add auto-update functionality. At this moment the application simply
checks is there is a new version available and notifies the user.
These notifications can be annoying to the user so I would prefer if
the update process occurred silently.

Want I want to achieve is the following:
- application checks if update available
- if yes, then download
- request user if it is ok to install update after closing IE
- auto install the update after Internet Explorer is closed

So I need to be able to start the installer after IE is closed. How
could I achieve this? I could do a ShellExecute on the
DLL_PROCESS_DETACH event. But maybe there is a better approach..

I would greatly appreciate your insights on this matter. Feel free to
suggest alternative approaches if you want to.

Best regards,

Francis

Hi Folks:

Developing on Win XP Media, C++ VS 2008, WIN32, no MFC.

My application checks to see if the Firebird DBMS has
been installed, and if not, it calls CreateProcess() to run
the Firebird install executable.

So far so good.

Firebird installs itself in \Program Files\Firebird\Firebird_2_0,
and puts some utilities in its bin directory.

When this is finished CreateProcess() is called again to run
Firebird's gsec utility, which manipulates the DBMS's security
tables. The command line that follows modifies the DB admin's
default password with one the user enters.

Gsec.exe can be run interactively, or can take it's commands
from the command line, which is how it's being run here.

The CreateProcess is followed by a call to WaitForSingleObject()
waiting for gsec's process handle.

This runs fine on my PC, the XP media machine with VS 2008. It
fails with a timeout on my partner's laptop, which also runs XP.

Post is only to document this misleading error message.

The error appears if I call a function that takes struct STARTUPINFO
as an argument and I forget to initialize the first member of the
struct to sizeof(STARTUPINFO):

Good: STARTUPINFO si = {sizeof(si)};
Bad: STARTUPINFO si;

Example:

STARTUPINFO si; // Bad
stat = CreateProcess( NULL, "myApp.exe", NULL, NULL, FALSE,
CREATE_NEW_CONSOLE, NULL, NULL, &si,
&pi );

returns 0 and GetLastError() returns 998.

-- Pete