Michael Crawford

If I were ever going to shag a guy, it would be Michael Crawford.

Lieber Gott!! The movie (Phantom of the opera) would have been SOOOO much better had these people gotten their way.

Music of the night (sung by MC) is primary in a group of about 3 songs that are my all-time greats. These songs break some great impermiable boundary in my mind, such that no matter how many times I hear them, I'm always excited to hear them again. I've heard this song litterally thousands of times in the last 15 years, and it continues to enthrall.

r6016 - not enough space for thread data

encountered this problem when trying to run VC++6 pgm after SP update on 2000 & XP.

Fixed by changing Project->Properties->C/C++ , category of code generation, Processor from BLEND* to 80386

Deleting files that are greater than 30 days old

In looking for a way to delete files that are older than 30 days, I came across ForFiles.exe:


ForFiles is useful for a couple of reasons:
1. It replaces the FOR command in the command shell, which is extremely powerful and useful, but a bit of a pain.
2. It allows you to use relative time (in days) to select the files that you want to act upon

Because links often break, I've included the content here. This is a microsoft TechNet article.


Link to article:

Forfiles

Updated: January 21, 2005

Related Links • Command-line reference A-Z • Command shell overview • Dir

Forfiles

Selects files in a folder or tree for batch processing.

Syntax

forfiles [/p Path] [/m SearchMask] [/s] [/c Command] [/d[{+ | -}] [{MM/DD/YYYY | DD}]]

Parameters

/p Path

Specifies the Path on which you want to start searching. The default folder is the current working directory, which you specify by typing a period (.).

/m SearchMask

Searches files according to SearchMask. The default SearchMask is *.*.

/s

Instructs forfiles to search in subdirectories.

/c Command

Runs the specified Command on each file. You must wrap command strings with spaces in quotation marks. The default Command is "cmd /c echo @file".

/d[{+ | -}] [{MM/DD/YYYY | DD}]

Selects files with a date greater than or equal to (+) or less than or equal to (-) the specified date, where MM/DD/YYYY is the specified date and DD is the current date minus DD days. If you do not specify + or -, + is used. The valid range for DD is 0 - 32768.

/?

Displays help at the command prompt.

Remarks

•	Forfiles is most commonly used in batch files.
•	Forfiles /s is similar to dir /s.
•	The following table list the variables that you can use in the /cCommand command string. Variable Description @file File name @fname File name without extension @ext File extension @path Full path of the file @relpath Relative path of the file @isdir Evaluates to TRUE if a file type is a directory, otherwise it evaluates to FALSE @fsize File size in bytes @fdate Last modified date stamp on the file @ftime Last modified time stamp on the file
•	With forfiles, you can run a command on or pass arguments to multiple files. For example, you could run the TYPE command on all files in a tree with the *.txt extension. Or, you could execute every batch file (*.bat) on the C:\ drive with the file name "Myinput.txt" as the first argument.
•	With forfiles, you can do any of the following: • Select files by an absolute or a relative date using /d. • Build an archive tree of files using variables such as @fsize (file size) and @fdate (file date). • Differentiate files from directories using the @isdir variable. • Format output by including special characters in the command line and surrounding the characters with the hexadecimal code 0xHH.
•	Forfiles works by implementing the recurse subdirectories flag on tools designed to process only a single file.

Examples

To list all of the batch files on drive C:, type:

forfiles /p c:\ /s /m*.bat /c"cmd /c echo @file is a batch file"

To list all of the directories on drive C:, type:

forfiles /p c:\ /s /m*.* /c"cmd /c if @isdir==true echo @file is a directory"

To list all of the files older than 100 days on drive C:, type:

forfiles /p c:\ /s /m*.* /dt-100 /c"cmd /c echo @file : date >= 100 days"

To list all of the files older than January 1, 1993 on drive C:, and then display "file is quite old!" for files with a date older than 01/01/1993, type:

forfiles /p c:\ /s /m*.* /dt-01011993 /c"cmd /c echo @file is quite old!"

To list all of the extensions of all of files on drive C: in column format, type:

forfiles /p c:\ /s /m*.* /c "cmd /c echo extension of @file is 0x09@ext0x09" With:

To list all of the batch files on drive C:, type:

forfiles /p c:\ /s /m *.bat /c "cmd /c echo @file is a batch file"

To list all of the directories on drive C:, type:

forfiles /p c:\ /s /m *.* /c "cmd /c if @isdir==true echo @file is a directory"

To list all of the files older than 100 days on drive C:, type:

forfiles /p c:\ /s /m *.* /d t-100 /c "cmd /c echo @file : date >= 100 days"

To list all of the files older than January 1, 1993 on drive C:, and then display "file is quite old!" for files with a date older than 01/01/1993, type:

forfiles /p c:\ /s /m *.* /d t-01011993 /c "cmd /c echo @file is quite old!"

To list all of the extensions of all of files on drive C: in column format, type:

forfiles /p c:\ /s /m*.* /c "cmd /c echo extension of @file is 0x09@ext0x09"

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Microsoft Word will not work on a server on which it is not installed

Turns out that Microsoft Word won't work on a server on which it's not installed :)

I support a program that interfaces with the InSystems Calligo Assembly Engine (or assembly server, depending on configuration) through DCOM using the InSystems assembly link toolkit.

We have, over the years, decided to take advantage of every API that the assembly link toolkit affords, and therefore do our printing through a AssemblyLinkDocument.PrintDoc() method.

As it turns out, the .print() method does a very strait-forward automation of MS-Word to accomplish it's printing, and will therefore not work when Word is not isntalled.

This manifest itself by an HResult of 0x80010105 on the call PrintDoc. Some initial googling of the value indicated that this is what you get when you try to invoke a method on an object that has yet to be instantiated.

Start Cmd.Exe by right-clicking explorer

Link to page where found:
https://secure.codeproject.com/shell/commandprompt.asp

This page has tremendous information on dealing with the Windows Shell & extensions as related to starting cmd.exe from explorer

and, because links tend to break - an excpert

Selecting this entry will open a DOS prompt with its current directory set to the folder you just right-clicked.

1. Open your registry (regedit)

2. Go to the following key: HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Folder\shell
3. Add this key: CmdPrompt and set its default value to: "Command Prompt"
4. Under this new key, add the following key: Command and set its default value to: "c:\winnt\system32\cmd.exe"

You should now have this tree in your registry:

That's it. Now, whenever you will right-click on a folder, the pop-up menu will contain an entry called "Command Prompt".

Great spot to download individual Windows 2000 resource kit tools

http://www.petri.co.il/download_free_reskit_tools.htm

A better way is to use the Forfiles tool, which you can find in the Windows resource kits. Forfiles lets you perform a date-based deletion. Here's a sample command:

Forfiles -p R:\MyFiles -s -m *.*
 -d -365 -c "Cmd /C Echo
 0x22@Path\@File0x22"

article on how to delete old files:
http://www.windowsitpro.com/Article/ArticleID/44891/44891.html

You need a Windows 2000 or later to run this stub because it uses these features

Ran into this problem when upgrading (migrating) a project from VC++ 6 to VC++7. Actually, I think that I recall having this issue in VC++6 as well, but that's been a few years ago, so memory is fuzzy.

Possible answers:
1. You may also see this error if you build an ATL project with the /robust MIDL compiler option. /robust is only for use when building for a Windows 2000 or later machine. So, either remove /robust or change this line in the dlldatax.c file:#define _WIN32_WINNT 0x0400 //for WinNT 4.0 or Win95 with DCOMto #define _WIN32_WINNT 0x0500 //for WinNT 4.0 or Win95 with DCOM

2. If you change RpcNdr.h to:
#if (0x500 <= _WIN32_WINNT)
#define TARGET_IS_NT50_OR_LATER 0 // 1
#else
#define TARGET_IS_NT50_OR_LATER 1 // 0
#endi

The link to this can be found at:
http://www.codeguru.com/forum/printthread.php?t=307745