i am working on an application called logonscreenchangerxp i made my program and when i run it on xp virtualmachine i get errors the program is made using vb 2008 and using .net framework 2.0 i am not able to get full permissions to modify boot.ini file and a regisrty value and to delete a file
View 5 RepliesIf i use a stream to modify few bytes in a file without changing the total number of bytes
does the stream rewrite all the file even if just few bytes have been replaced?
On an xp system using VB 2008 exprees, I'm trying to write code which will change a file's permisions when run from a non admin account. To do this I need to now how to run the code as an administrator. I've got the code to change permissions working, I just don't know how to run it with an administrator's credentials. The code is:
Imports System.IO
Imports System.Security.AccessControl
Private Sub Button1_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs)
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How can I change the permissions of a registry key. I want to allow anyone in the "Users" group to be able to write to "SOFTWAREMyApp".
View 2 RepliesI'm am developing a program for my computer and as I am using Windows 7 i have to execute it as admin every time I open my program. My IT teacher said I could set my program's permissions to 1, doing this the program would have admin privileges. But the thing is I don't know how to do it.
View 1 RepliesEver since I upgraded to Windows 7 Professional I've had constant build problems with VS 2008. I can't use the Hosting Process (not that I normally do) because at build I'll be notified VS could not copy a support file (the hosting exe). In addition, every time I build I'm told my previous exe is in use by another process and cannot be accessed. My only recourse is to manually delete the file. That works a few dozen times but eventually Windows stops letting me delete it and tells me that I require permission from an Administrator to make changes to the file (I'm the administrator,
View 3 RepliesI tried searching for this issue but the search gives me a database exception and I'm kind of at my wit's end. I'm sureEver since I upgraded to Windows 7 Professional I've had constant build problems with VS 2008. I can't use the Hosting Process (not that I normally do) because at build I'll be notified VS could not copy a support file (the hosting exe). In addition, every time I build I'm told my previous exe is in use by another process and cannot be accessed. My only recourse is to manually delete the file. That works a few dozen times but eventually Windows stops letting me delete it and tells me that I require permission from an Administrator to make changes to the file (I'm the administrator, stupid machine).
View 6 RepliesI am trying to code a delete button for a browsing program based on data from a txt file. I have coded the buttons to sort(ascending and descending), append to the text file, search the text file, but I can not seem to get the delete function working. I am using VB 2010, this is what I have so far:
Code:
Dim deleline As String
Dim line As String
Dim isFound As Boolean = False
sr4 = IO.File.OpenText("Students.txt")
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how can i deny all permisions to this registry value.. using vb.net...
My.Computer.Registry.SetValue("HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINEHKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE
SOFTWAREHKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESOFTWAREMicrosoftsql", "001", "001")
I have a project where you type something then it looks through a text file for what you typed. I would then like to make a way to edit the text file once I find what I'm looking for. So, how do you delete text from a .txt file that you are searching through? Also, how do you re-write in that place you just deleted the text from?
View 3 RepliesI've been struggling with this problem in VB.net for a while: whenever I try to access the My Documents, My video's or simular in Windows 7, I get an access denied error. The program that uses this code is a file-backup application, so it's important it can access everything. The app has admin rights, using this line:requestedExecutionLevel level="requireAdministrator" uiAccess="false" />
To confirm, I also get a nice UAC popup when starting.The app accesses the files twice. Once to calculate the file size, and once to actually copy the files. Here is the file-size calculation code (that I found online:) Function GetFolderSize(ByVal DirPath As String, ByVal includeSubFolders As Boolean) As Long
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I created an application that when a user logs onto their Windows account, a Form is displayed outlining the current Computer Usage policy set by the insitution and gives the user two options either Agree or Dis-Agree. The two options are in the form of buttons, with events that depending on what the user clicked, will create a log text file at a specified location, with enteries of Date,Time,CurrentUser, and if they agreed or disagreed. If they agreed the application after creating/amending the file will then terminate, otherwise it will update the file and then force Windows to logoff the current user.
Now I made a shortcut of the .exe of the application and placed it in the startup for all users, and yes the application loads at startup for all the users following the procedures mentioned above. The problem I am facing is, that if the current user logs off, or is forced to log off, and another user logs onto Windows, goes through the whole ordeal mentioned above, the application is denied access to the logfile that was created under the previous user, and thus crashes.
So my question is, how can I created a text file using vb 2008 application, that is accessible by multiple Windows users. I have even tried changing the location of the created file to the shared folder, but the end result is the same.
I make an application and make setup file using VS setup project. This work fine and create default text files into Program Files Folder for winodw 7/vista .but can not modify these files or create any new files.
There are few text files need to create ,modify during application running ,but in windows 7/vista unable to create,modify files.I am using full default admin right for these OS. If iuse C: root path then application work fine or for win XP no problem.I think UAC restricting to perform these opeartion. But i do not know how to change these restriction using vb.net, whenever application start.
I found one solution that , if change user rights manually then this problem solved.Follow these step to change your account settings.Control Panel-->User Accounts and Family Safety-->User Accounts-->Change User Account Control settings-->Never notify(Set tab to never notify).After this change need to restart system.Now can make all changes like windows XP into Windows 7.can also make changes into program files.
Its working fine, but need to make these changes manually in OS.but its not efficent solution. So if any one knows how can make these changes by coding that will nice.
In an app I am writing I need to be able to display the current settings of the following:- Windows "automatically restart on error" setting from advanced, startup and recovery section Paging file size and whether it is custom size or set to system managed Is this at all possible? perhaps VB has a function to do so I cannot find, or perhaps I can do by querying a registry value?
View 6 RepliesI have a program which makes a bunch of changes to windows systems. I need to change the boot.ini file Specifically i want to be able to look at the boot.ini and add in/make the following changes below...
The timout change would be controlled by a checkbox the noexecute change would be controlled by a checkbox checking the checkbox would make the changes noted below unchecking the checkbox would return the value to its default value.
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I'm trying to write an application in VB 2010 that will allow me to send out stop and start commands for two services. I can get this to work in a batch file but not in VB, using either NET STOP and NET START and also using SC.exe Stop and SC.exe Start. But I don't seem to get anywhere if I try to use this in VB. So far this is what I have written, using the Print Spooler service as an example. The two services I actually want to stop and restart are the Server and Client services for efpos terminals that are attached to the computers. The service fails from time to time and I want to provide a solution for our users that is quick and easy for them to use, and most importantly doesn't require them to restart the computer, while they have a line up of people waiting to pay.
Code:
Private Sub SpoolerStop()
' Stops the spooler service
Dim StopSpooler = "C:windowssystem32sc.exe stop spooler"
End Sub
No matter what search terms I try in Google I get very little on using VB to interact with Windows Services.
I am using net 2010 net framework 2 & w7 In windows explorer I want to move or rename a file but I get a windows message with a heading "File Access Denied" you need administrator permission to do this In my vb code I want to move the same file but get an error, the security on the file is "Read & execute" and "Read" How do I detect this before the code for moving & also set the permissions so I can move it with vb code.
View 6 RepliesI'm trying to return a integer / count of the ammount of files in the directory and sub directories in the 'Windows' folder, I need to be able to do this as fast as possible (no lag) and tell when it's done, hope I explained this right.
View 3 RepliesI have written following code in vb.net to delete the file.[code]...
This code works perfectly in windows xp. But in Windows 7,I can not delete it. This OS is hectic OS from developer's point of view. Some or other problem occurs and Microsoft has not considered the developer while building this OS.
How do I delete file in Windows 7 ?
IDE: Visual Studio 2010
Library: .Net framework 4
Language: Visual Basic .Net
Type application: Windows form
Code:
Public Class Form1
Private Sub Form1_Load(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles MyBase.Load
Me.PictureBox1.Image = Image.FromFile("C:UsersDimaPicturesvisualwebripper - Copy.png")
Dim InstImageList As New ImageList
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I need to write data to a file, preferably in binary format, but I am unaccustomed with the concept. Where's the easiest place to get the basics? I could come here with a specific need, but I'm at the point right now where I am more willing to work within the confines of keeping it simple.
Here's what I know:
1. how to open a new file
2. how to specify the record length
3. how to close the file
Some specific questions:
Does the record length have to be constant throughout the file?
Can I read the nth record without reading the whole file?
I am developing an application that Monitors a specific folder for file changes such as modify deletion, update, etc. The only problem I have is , the application doesn't fire up File events.
Here is the code:
Imports System.IO
Imports System.Diagnostics
Public Class Form1
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in windows form in button click event how to export the file in a location select by showdialog & it will be delete permanently at a same time.How can i do this because in .net it will produces error "IO Exception was unhandled" or "The process can not access the file because it is used by anather process." .In button click event how to export the file & delete at same time in vb.net windows application.
View 5 RepliesI am creating a windows service to save current username and logon time in a CSV file. But when I install the service, the file is just created, not details are written to it, and that file is set to read-only mode. what is the problem in my code?
My code:
Imports System.IO
Imports System.Text
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I am working on a VB Console Application that takes an Autocad drawing type DWG and converts it to a PDF using a shell command that calls a third party application. In this case, acmecadconverter.exe from www.dwgtool.com. Then the PDF that is created needs a unique watermark, so I call a second application for that called pdftk.exe from www.accesspdf.com/pdftk/.
Everything works as intended, except when I try file names that contain spaces. The file system object does not tolerate spaces in the drawing file name. For instance, the following command gives me a system.io.filenotfoundexception...
My.Computer.FileSystem.RenameFile("Test Flowchart1.dwg", "Test~Flowchart1.dwg")
It's the same problem for all of my File System commands. Either file not found or invalid arguments.
The complete script I'm using is here:
Code:
Sub Main()
Dim arrArgs() As String = Command.Split(","), _
i As Integer, folderPath As String, myPart As String, _
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I'm currently developing an editor for an AFL management sim.I want to be able to load three or four multidimensional arrays to the program, then save them to the same file. I tried the tutorial on here but got completely muddled up. Why can't it be easy like in VB6 When it was like 10 lines of code tops!
View 5 RepliesI am writing a program to calculate Pi to several hundred billion decimal places and this will require lots of GB of memory. I wrote a test program in VB2008 that saved the first 16 digits of Pi (without the decimal point) to both a text file and a random access file, just to be sure it was outputting the numbers properly. For reference the first 16 digits of Pi are:
View 8 RepliesI have a program that can save to a .txt file.The issue is I need it to be done in a tab delimited way.Basically:
TextHere<Tab>TextHere<Tab>TextHere<NextLine>
TextHere<Tab>TextHere<Tab>TextHere<NextLine>
I have this so far, but all it does is put the TextBox1.Text next to TextBox2.Text
Code:
SaveFileDialog1.Filter = "Text files (*.txt)|*.txt|All files (*.*)|*.*"
Dim FileWriter As StreamWriter
Dim results As DialogResult
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Our program will start with the help of a FileSystemWatcher object. How can we check or the file is total copied, for example the file is 100 Mbyte it take a time it's ready for use. Idea:
Do While True
Try
N = testForUse(BigFile)
If N = 1 Then Exit Do
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I have found the class code below which should be activated to show the result for the selected option
Dim pc as new CheckPerm
pc.Permission = "Modify"
if pc.CheckPerm("C:WIndowsSystem32") then
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