I'm trying to copy a file that I made that contains license information to system32 directory. My problem is I get access denied. here is the code I'm using
Dim formatter As New BinaryFormatter
Dim fileWriteStream As Stream
fileWriteStream = New FileStream(My.Application.Info.DirectoryPath & "" &
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I want to replace/delete imageres.dll in system32 golder in vista/7 from vb.net Note : that i have taken ownership of file with cmd in windows 7. And also note when i delete the file from windows explorer it gets deleted successfully but when i do it with vb.net it failes
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how should i copy a file in system32 folder from resources folder .resx file of my windows application?
View 1 Repliesi want to copy DLL file to system32 but i want to make the directory to file system .. i want to tell that i don't want to write C:Windowssystem32 because if the user is installed the windows to D: drive thats mean that should be D:Windowssystem32 NOT C: the code is :
Dim k As String
Dim l As String
System.IO.File.WriteAllBytes("C:d3dx9_39.dll", My.Resources.d3dx9_39)
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I have made a DLL with VB.net. Under project settings i have marked checked 2 things
1. Register for COM interop
2. Make assembly COM visible
When i build project its done successfully. Now i take DLL file from project location and copy it in System32. Then on command prompt i use following command to register self creating DLL so that other vb.net programs can use my DLL and etc.
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Could anyone provide me with sample code for using a WAV file as the input to the Windows speech recognition software on my machine (Windows Vista)?
View 3 RepliesIm using this code in XP 32bit os to get the %windir%windowssystem32 folder path.
sysFolderPath = Environment.GetFolderPath(Environment.SpecialFolder.System) What i want to know is that will this same code return the %windir%windowssyswow64 folder when used in windows7 (64/32bit)?
right now, im using Windows Vista.. in Windows XP, deleting a file is working with this code System.IO.File.Delete("C: estdelete.jpg") But in Windows Vista, i encounter this message: Access to the path 'C: estdelete.jpg' is denied. why its happening? what is the solution for this?
View 14 RepliesUsing VB6 to create a file and then open the file just created fails when run on a Vista client with Windows 2008 Server. The same code will work when run directly on the Windows 2008 Server or when using an XP client. If a Sleep 10000 is placed after the close, the program will work. What is the problem here? The code is as follows:
Option Explicit
Private Declare Function GetTempFileName Lib "kernel32" Alias "GetTempFileNameA" _
(ByVal lpszPath As String, ByVal lpPrefixString As String, ByVal wUnique As Long, _
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I'm trying to delete a dll file in the system32 folder but receive a permission error (Access to the path 'c:\windows\system32\testfile.dll' is denied.)
I'm using:
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I have multiple versions of an app that uses a dll, I have to replace the dll with the correct version and register it. The plan was to delete it from system32, and copy over the relevant version, then register it.
Let me start this again. I just started working at a company and this company sells customer label printers and its software. The printer drivers are not designed well and creates problems between version updates. When a customer calls in and compalins that are some communication problems, we have to login to their computer and remove printer, it's drivers and driver files that gets installed into system32 folder.
So, my goal was to have the customer download a file , run it and remove these files before they download the latest files.[code]...
i have created an application using vb.net 2008 which will maintain backup of the database in system32 folder
View 2 RepliesI have some simple vb.net code that I use to copy a file between 2 servers.
IO.File.Copy(fromFileName, toFileName, True) ' Overwrites existing files
That works fine when both machines are Windows XP.
What would I need to do differently if 1 of the machines happens to be a LINUX box?
I found this code which alows you to copy files using the windows api, this code works perfect untill the directory that you are copying from contains sub folders (which i need to be able to do). I was wondering if anyone could point me in the right direction if not sugets an alternative.
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I found a script online to copy some files whilst also displaying a progress bar to the user. I wondered if it was possible to automate this process so the file copy initiates as soon as the program launches and then closes once completed. VB is not my strong point as I usually code in c sharp.
Imports System.Collections.Generic
Imports System.ComponentModel
Imports System.IO
Public Class Form1
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How can I change the background of my form to look like that of Windows Mobility Center in Windows Vista?
View 2 Replieswill an program built on windows 7 using vs 2008 or 2005 have the compatibility with windows xp or vista
View 5 RepliesI am working on a backup utility for use with the mysql db. Because I need the actual backup to run regardless of if a user is logged on or not, I created the backup engine in a windows service.
Basically the backup engine checks to see if a backup job is scheduled to be run and if it is, it kicks off a mysqldump to do the backup. For sake of performance I am saving all backup jobs to the local c: drive then doing a file copy to the user defined destination.
Everything works fine except for the file copy. If the user selects a local resource to the computer it works fine. However, if a network drive is selected, I get an error that it cannot find the path.
I started thinking about it and believe this is expected since the backup engine is probably oblivious to whatever mapped drives that particular user has, i.e. the mapping process is done when someone logs in and my app is running at a lower level.
I started doing some research on this problem and found that some people are saying that windows services are oblivious of networks all together. This seemed a little odd to me so I thought I would bring the issue here.
Is a windows service truely unaware of network activity? How can I change the program to move the completed backups over to a network drive?
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View 2 Repliesi have created some shareware applications. I implemented the following mechanism for piracy protection. Before Windows Vista and Windows 7 i did write a dll file to the System32 folder with an encrypted license key. Also in the Registry under HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE i inserted a registry key.
The problem is that with Windows Vista and Windows 7 due to the User Account Control (UAC) this is denied.
I want to ask : what other mechanism can be implemented ? Where should i store the encrypted key file and the registry key.
I want that the application can be installed for all users of a computer only once.
If i stored the key in the user's application data directory then another user could easily just install it under another user account. Also i do not want to put the key file in the application directory because that would be too obvious.
note that i create the registry key with my application and not with the installer.
I have a font in my programm resources that I wanna copy on form load to windows fonts I tried (my.computer.filesystem.filecopy) but i get this error (cant convert binary to string)
View 11 Replieshow to do it through my VBA code, or at least tell me which MSDN forum would know how?I've created a Vista "Network Location" (an XP "Network Place") which I'll call "portalToServer" which behaves as a kind of FTP portal into a web server.Manually, I can very easily drag a file (e.g., test.txt) from my destop and drop it onto this "portalToServer" object in my Computer folder, and magically a copy of the file is FTP'd to the server.How can I do this copy task programmatically in VBA???I have found that this object is actually stored in a folder at: [code] (or any variation that expands that explicitly, with or without trailing , with or without destination file name appended) returns a path not found error error 76, I think it was.(FYI, I've confirmed a line like ' FileCopy "C est.txt", "C: ext2. txt" 'does copy files.)I've also observed that if I use either a DOS window or the Run command (with CMD /c prefix) to do a COPY with those arguments, it reports success but actually fails.These DOS-like modes actually place a copy of the test.txt file in a "portalToServer" folder (in this example) on my PC which also contains a "target.lnk" file which I assume points to the FTP site on my server.(I can navigate to that into folder in the DOS window to see inside it.) I'm guessing the Windows GUI does some magic on any files dropped into that folder, but that magic is bypassed by the DOS windows or Run CMD instruction.
View 2 RepliesI'm printing pdf files via the below code in a service. In Windows 7 this works really well, In Windows Vista, nothing happens at all? What am I doing wrong?
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Dragging ListViewItem To Windows Explorer to copy file but it copies to form
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I develop applications in Visual Basic.NET (Visual Studio 2005) for a long time on Windows Vista without problem.
Now, I'm changing my laptop, and the new has installed the Windows 7. So, I reinstalled VS 2005, taking care to install the Vista compatibility. Thus, the version of my current VS 2005 is 8.0.50727.867 (vsvista.050727-8600) SP2. And that is my problem.
When I ran the application in debug mode (F5) on Windows Vista, a windows appeared whenever there was an error, like below:
Now, on Windows 7, the application just shows a exception message in the Immediate Windows, don't showing any error window, continuing the application execution, as below:
I develop applications in Visual Basic.NET (Visual Studio 2005) for a long time on Windows Vista without problem.Now, I'm changing my laptop, and the new has installed the Windows 7. So, I reinstalled VS 2005, taking care to install the Vista compatibility. Thus, the version of my current VS 2005 is 8.0.50727.867 (vsvista.050727-8600) SP2. And that is my problem.When I ran the application in debug mode (F5) on Windows Vista, a windows appeared whenever there was an error, like below: Now, on Windows 7, the application just shows a exception message in the Immediate Windows, don't showing any error window, continuing the application execution, as below [code]
View 2 RepliesI have a program that works in Windows XP Pro, Visual Basic 2005 and Excel 2007 that does not work in Windows Vista, Visual Basic 2005 and Excel 2007.The program takes Excel data from an already opened Workbook on the desktop and moves it to the Visual Basic program.The error occurs when I try to open the Excel Application in Visual Basic:[code]Is there a different code to define an Application in Vista?The "Open" Application will not work on a Excel App already on the desktop.
View 1 Repliesi compile my form with the below code when i run it on vista work fine without any problem but when i try to run in on XP cant run... that happened with any XP machine.[code]when i run my exe to other Vista machines work fine... but on xp NO.
View 1 RepliesCannot upgrade from Windows Vista to Windows 7
View 1 RepliesI have recently developed an aplication in XP that it works on XP nice but in vista or seven don't work at all. It gives a message when I try to enter the application like " The program cannot run.."
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