if last boot was not terminated properly,
some menu will be displayed, on next boot.
(equal to press F8 on start up)

i want to make a restore solution,
so, i must figure it out about last boot failure.

that's all.
thank you.

Hi,

I asked a question about accessing USB devices previously and
incorrectly stated my question. I'd like to know how I can obtain
information about USB devices using C# such as the USB VID/PID. What
is necessary for this?

Sorry for the incorrectly worded question.

Andy

Hi,

What mechanisms (libraries, etc.) are available, using MS libraries,
for accessing USB devices? Ideally, for C# (since I should write it
in that language), but C++ is ok too. I'm not much of a MS person and
if this is not the correct forum for C#, please point me to that
forum.

I'm looking through MSDN now but honestly the searches bring back so
much information that I doubt I'll get to it all. What would I search
for in the VS help aside from MSDN?

Thanks,
Andy

Hi,

Is anyone aware of a good way to display a Magick::Image in a cross-
platform way?
I am using ImageMagick in a QT application with the requirement to
display live changes to an image.
My attempts to converting the Magick::Image to a QImage pixel by pixel
worked, but proved to be way too slow to be a worthy solution.

Is there a way to do that?

Hello all. I have developed some C++ code to perform a rather complex
Monte-Carlo simulation. In order to make it user friendly, I compile
it into a dll and call it from Excel VBA. When I run a test case in C+
+ (Visual Studio 2005) it takes roughly 8 seconds. Running the exact
same case through Excel takes roughly 15 seconds. My questions are as
follows:

1. Is it normal to see a performance hit of 2:1 when using a dll? I
was always under the impression that using libraries like this was a
very efficient way to use code.

2. Is/are there some compiler optimizations that are specific to dll
creation?

Just to be clear, I am building both versions in "Release" and have
the full optimization (/Ox) selected in each case. I have tried to
running the VBA code without calling the dll and it is very fast, so
the overhead is not coming from poor VBA programming. I pass many
parameters from VBA to the dll by either value or reference.

Any ideas on how to speed up the dll or is this just the price I pay
for using Excel as my front end? Thanks in advance.

How can i know if a system user need a password to login?
I've tryed with WMI and AD, reading the PasswordRequired property but
it is always true, also for users without password.
Any idea?