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Thanks. Our procedure was developed when we were using VB/VBA. Possibly we’ll change it under .Net, but haven’t so far. I only found 2 programs for printing .Net source code-PrettyCodePrint.Net and VS.NetCodePrint. Of the 2 I liked VS.NetCodePrint better but I was wondering if there was something else out there that I’d missed. Looks like there isn’t so I’ll recommend that we either use .NetCodePrint or change our procedures. (Charlotte-thanks. I hadn’t discovered the enhancement about the task list & TODO: comments yet.)

Thanks. Doesn’t immediately help my problem, but it’s always nice to see how other folks do it-and it might help in the future.

We might be talking about different autologins here, but the one I use (control userpasswords2) only applies to the person sitting at the keyboard, I think. When I connect to my PC from a remote PC I’m still asked to supply a username & password (except when it’s the same as the username & password on the remote PC), I think-it’s been a while since I’ve checked this as I use the same name/password on all the PC’s in my network (of which I’m the only user-it’s a small network). I remember checking this out before I first set it up & deciding that it was safe to use, but I can’t really remember the details anymore so maybe I’m mistaken, but I think that if the machine is physically secure & the default login is both a restricted user & requires a password then it’s not too bad if the password is supplied automatically. I think.

Thanks. I should get a test machine set up this weekend if nothing more urgent interferes. If you’re right (and it sounds reasonable to me-but many things that sound reasonable to me turn out to be incorrect when dealing with Windows) then using Run As might, in fact, be a decent solution.

By the way, something else that I’ve never looked into-what happens to the registry, specifically the HKCU hive, when you have multiple users logged on? Since both are active both must, somehow, be considered ‘current’ and I can’t see the registry constantly switching the HKCU hive between/among them every time the CPU switches tasks.

Thanks. I should get a test machine set up this weekend if nothing more urgent interferes. If you’re right (and it sounds reasonable to me-but many things that sound reasonable to me turn out to be incorrect when dealing with Windows) then using Run As might, in fact, be a decent solution.

By the way, something else that I’ve never looked into-what happens to the registry, specifically the HKCU hive, when you have multiple users logged on? Since both are active both must, somehow, be considered ‘current’ and I can’t see the registry constantly switching the HKCU hive between/among them every time the CPU switches tasks.

The name part should be the same as listed in Properties. The extension could be either .bmp or .jpg. My system shows those types that are in either Windows or My Pictures but if you used Browse then I think it could be anywhere.

If you search for the name (no extension) then you should find it.

The name part should be the same as listed in Properties. The extension could be either .bmp or .jpg. My system shows those types that are in either Windows or My Pictures but if you used Browse then I think it could be anywhere.

If you search for the name (no extension) then you should find it.

Could also have shot himself while riding a horse. The rifle would drop immediately but it’s not inconceivable that the body would fall off some distance away. 100 feet seems improbable however. (If the horse bolts at the rifle shot, or is running to begin with, then the body falls off sooner. If the horse is walking smoothly then it takes some time to travel 100 feet.)

This also fits better with the ‘suicide by rifle’ bit-rifles designed to be carried/used on horseback generally have shorter barrels. (More properly, they’re called carbines but IMO most people would accept rifle as an adequate description of them.)

Could also have shot himself while riding a horse. The rifle would drop immediately but it’s not inconceivable that the body would fall off some distance away. 100 feet seems improbable however. (If the horse bolts at the rifle shot, or is running to begin with, then the body falls off sooner. If the horse is walking smoothly then it takes some time to travel 100 feet.)

This also fits better with the ‘suicide by rifle’ bit-rifles designed to be carried/used on horseback generally have shorter barrels. (More properly, they’re called carbines but IMO most people would accept rifle as an adequate description of them.)

Could they make things more confusing? Yes. Consider the situation a few years ago when in many cases two devices from different manufacturers wouldn’t work together even though they were both ‘SCSI’. Now that’s what I call confusing!

Note that under WinXP you can assign drive letters to partitions. If you want to keep your CD-ROM drive as D: you can. Not that I’m necessarily advising that-just noting that you can do it if it solves some problem for you.

Personally, I’ve quit partitioning hard drives since I went to NTFS formatting. The driving reason for partitions in my case was efficiency-I wanted to keep the cluster sizes down. NTFS doesn’t have that problem & the other reasons (backup/management) I can do just as well by putting things in the appropriate directories as by putting them on the appropriate drives.

Could they make things more confusing? Yes. Consider the situation a few years ago when in many cases two devices from different manufacturers wouldn’t work together even though they were both ‘SCSI’. Now that’s what I call confusing!

Note that under WinXP you can assign drive letters to partitions. If you want to keep your CD-ROM drive as D: you can. Not that I’m necessarily advising that-just noting that you can do it if it solves some problem for you.

Personally, I’ve quit partitioning hard drives since I went to NTFS formatting. The driving reason for partitions in my case was efficiency-I wanted to keep the cluster sizes down. NTFS doesn’t have that problem & the other reasons (backup/management) I can do just as well by putting things in the appropriate directories as by putting them on the appropriate drives.

Sorry, got confused by Jim’s comment about upgrading to XP.

Sorry, got confused by Jim’s comment about upgrading to XP.

One of the reasons I still like COBOL is that it was essentially the same whether I was working on a program for the mainframe, the minicomputer, or a PC. Other languages share this universality, but not C# or VB, in any form that I’m aware of. (I believe COBOL programs were pretty similar on Unix boxes too-but I haven’t worked in it on one yet so I can’t say for sure.)

It’d really be nice to get back to something that just works for a change.

One of the reasons I still like COBOL is that it was essentially the same whether I was working on a program for the mainframe, the minicomputer, or a PC. Other languages share this universality, but not C# or VB, in any form that I’m aware of. (I believe COBOL programs were pretty similar on Unix boxes too-but I haven’t worked in it on one yet so I can’t say for sure.)

It’d really be nice to get back to something that just works for a change.