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first and foremost it means what the programmer who wrote the installer meant and made it to be

now, when it comes to drivers, this is another story.
usually your driver is a combo of .inf and .sys (once you get rid of all the installer usability candy)
windows puts the .inf somewhere in \WINNT\ (or \WINDOWS\, depending on your windows version) and the .sys into \WINNT\system32\drivers\
besides those windows tends to hold old versions of the driver under different file names in other places (yes, it's kinda vague like that)

what your windows device manager does on top of that, is report the version number it finds in the .inf file (just a text file) and not necessarily the version number of the driver itself (right click on the .sys file, properties, version-tab)

now just imagine this scenario i found myself in at work just recently:
we're using a 3rd party USB device with a specialized driver and firmware made for us by said 3rd party.
as it always goes, it's not perfect, so there will be new driver versions.

windows is also kinda stupid when it comes to plugging the same usb device into different usb ports (yes, even if the usb-serial is properly implemented in the device).
so windows thinks (even so it's the same device) that each time you use a different port, it's a different device.
each time installing or requesting the driver.

you can 'update driver' from the device manager. ok. does not always work.
i even went so far as to delete the .sys file from \winnt\system32\drivers\ only to find a very old version of the driver
suddenly appearing out of thin air the next time i plugged the device in.

here's the (kind of work intensive but successful) way to get rid of a driver:
- plug device in
- right-click / properties on the device @ device manager
- remove driver (or uninstall, not sure what's it called)
- unplugg device
- delete .sys file for the driver from \winnt\system32\drivers\ (and if you can find them, all .inf files)
- restart pc
- plug in device
- install new driver when asked

Nice idea - too bad if some application has a custom edit control...

I'm wondering if it works for custom controls inheriting the base edit control.

nice one!
I'll test it if I get the chance next week

Video taken at Assembly07 (Demoscene party).
Using a specially crafted soundfile one of the hackers managed to display the
all too familiar oldskool side-scrollers and abstract shapes to be displayed on an ... oscilloscope!
Just plain awesome.

http://www.itse061.de/blog/2007/10/20/wozu-man-ein-oszilloskop-verwenden-kann/
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ok, this might sound a bit confusing, let me elaborate.
mouser suggested i post it in here (original: http://www.donationcoder....m/index.php?topic=10517.0)

environment:

• windows XP / 2000
• touch-screen display (for windows this is just a simple mouse)
• 2 applications (A and OSK)
  A: random application with GUI
  OSK: on-screen-keyboard

the idea:

• monitor A's GUI
• launch/unhide OSK as soon as focus is given to an edit control (usually needs keyboard input)
• if edit control looses focus (or OSK has no more GUI-clicking going on, aka timeout) close/hide OSK

candy:

• make this work global for all running apps
• make it only work for a list of applications
• make types of controls that trigger the OSK configurable
• support for arbitrary OSK apps (windows' own, 3rd party)

alternative:
is there any OSK app out there that already does it?
i couldn't find any.

thats a nice idea.. wouldn't this be a good coding snack -- a program that detects when you are in an editbox or other edit control and launches a configured application when you are?

post it in the coding snacks request section, this seems like something right up skrommel (or some other ahk coder) alley.

good idea!
doing that right now

coding snack idea: http://www.donationcoder....m/index.php?topic=10520.0

Glowcode my meet your needs. It has worked well for me over the years. www.glowcode.com

i tried that one, and it worked reasonably well

Glowcode was one of the ones i was trying to remember the name of 

yup, found that one too, but that's quite an investment ;-)

the main thing here is, that if i focus a control that needs keyboard input (textbox, etc) the on-screen-keyboard should pop up automatically.
i've found a couple of virtual keyboards already, but none have this feature

Hey fellow DCers,

I was wondering if there is any on-screen-keyboard solution that automatically pops up the moment an edit control gets focus.
Any recommendations?

I can't find words to describe this thing... it's just, uhm, odd.
Yet fascinating. 

http://alpha61.com/primenumbershittingbear/
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from

Adobe presents prototype lens-assembly to take 3D photographs which allow
to move the camera later on in software or change the focus plane.
They also show what they call the 'Focus Healing Brush' to add focus or de-focus to selected image areas.

http://audioblog.fr/archives/2007/10/02/adobe-dave-story-future/
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These are some pretty shocking data. I just hope there will be a brighter futue.

well, to have a brighter future tomorrow you have to light a candle today...

The Electronic Commerce Bill would make it a crime to fail to give up the decryption key to a message if a policeman thinks you've got it. If you haven't got it, it is up to you to prove you haven't. If you can't prove it, you would be liable for 2 years in jail.

OUCH! Innocent until proven guilty? Yikes!

Exactly.. that's what the German government is working towards too...
They also keep using new words to make stuff sound better, sounds like newspeak, i'm not kidding...

In a few hours time Part III of the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act 2000 will come into effect. The commencement order means that as of October 1st a section 49 notice can be served which requires that encrypted data be “put into an intelligible form” (what you and I might call “decrypted”). [...]

http://www.lightbluetouchpaper.org/2007/09/30/time-to-forget/

holy fucking crap what the hell?!
mouser, we need a smile-face that does the hitler salute, seriously...
there's just no way to describe how idiotic, nazi, 1984, [more adjectives here] this is...
i'm shocked (and yes, this comes from someone in who's country possession of hacker tools is illegal)

from a idealistic and naive point of view i want to see this happening
on the other hand, being a mix of pessimist and realist i'm not so sure...

then again.. seeing what's happening here in germany i so want the ability to contribute more directly and not have total morons and lobbyists  decide what's good for the 'stupid people'

*sigh*

@mwb1100

CRTDBG is a rather blunt tool ;-) pretty much telling me: you leak / you don't leak
and I'm not sure it works cross-dll / cross-language

anyways, thanks for the info

thanks for the reply mouser,
since i'm not the GUI-type but usually a linux-only user (except for prostitution work related stuff) this shouldn't pose a problem.
i found AQTime myself after some searching and i have to say it looks quite nice.
turns out... there's no real memory leak after all *curses at image acquisition drivers*

Hey there fellow DC'ers
I'm sitting at work here right now, having to deal with a _very_ nasty problem that totally smashes my system's heap, slowly, very slowly... (to the point of no return other than rebooting)
The application is an especially nasty accumulation of C/C++/Managed C++/C# code.
So it got everything, from malloc to new to gcnew.. garbage collected items, and items that need manual disposal.
Everything split up in half a ton of DLL files.

I already found this thread here and was wondering if any of you could recommend any other tools (preferably free software, but if it's payware, whatever, as long as it does the job) to do leak testing, memory profiling.

linux-based valgrind is pretty awesome for this, but well, linux.
i'd need something similar for win2k and xp.

i know leaks are a very common problem to any non-trivial program, so i assume most of you have already had to deal with this problem.
please share your knowledge

try hydrogen from http://www.hydrogen-music.org/
there's also a windows and mac osx version in the download section
and here's the best part: it's totally free

thought I'd share my latest find since it wasn't already posted here ;-)
Enjoy.

Two strings walk into a bar and sit down. The bartender says, "So what'll it be?"
The first string says, "I think I'll have a beer quag fulk boorg jdk^CjfdLk jk3s d#f67howe%^U r89nvy~~owmc63^Dz x.xvcu"
"Please excuse my friend," the second string says, "He isn't null-terminated."

http://www.csjokes.com/
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[Double maze]

Double maze
Use the arrow keys to move the two balls around and land them on the yellow stars
and press Control to reset the level

http://logicgame.com.ua/game.php?buhf=double_maze&l=en
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I dont like how dialogs that pop up centered are split between the displays, anyone know how to fix that?

Hey if You find a way to fix that, let me know, I would like to know.

works fine for me on linux ;-)
it's called 'hinting' and also takes care of windows you resize to full-screen only are full-screen on one of the displays
for me it's done using xinerama (X.Org builtin), as to how windows does it, no clue. ;-)

look ma, no icons!
i also prefer using my own photos as wallpapers since kinda hard to get dual-screen wallpapers i like

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i sign my emails with

//
myname

welcome to the club ;-)

to why i do this...
i guess to separate the signature from the content

haha, yes of course
i assume reading fingerprints from 5 meters away only works under lab-conditions... for now.