Date: 11/01/05 (Code WTF)    Keywords: browser, microsoft

<script language="JavaScript">
var globalTable,oRow,oCell,aRows,aCells,oCell1_1;
if ('Netscape' == "Microsoft")
{
globalTable=document.all.globalTable;
}
else // it can be Netscape or any other browser
{
globalTable=document.getElementById("globalTable");
}
...
</script>

Working project!

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/code_wtf/18372.html

Date: 01/12/06 (Computer Help)    Keywords: microsoft

HELP!!

i'm running windows 98 SE. (Using the library's comp.) I stupidly (after re-installing IE 6.0) used microsoft windows update to find "crtical updates" for my computer, so I downloaded and installed them, and when I restarted, I got this at my desktop:

"a required .DLL file, C:WINDOWS/SYSTEM/SHLWAPI.DLL, was not found."

then I clicked out of that, and got:

"error loading explorer.exe. You must reinstall windows."

it's impossible to get into windows now.

what the hell did windows update do???!?

I tried to get into safe mode, I couldn't, and and I had to use my win98 boot disk to get it to a command prompt, where I tried to restore the registry from DOS. I restored it from the earilest backup, but the problem still remained when I got to the desktop, so it didn't work.

Then I used the windows 98 CD and the win98 boot disk to get to the command prompt to restore the missing file from the CD to the windows/system directory. I no longer got the "you must reinstall windows" or "shlwapi.dll is missing" error, but now when I try to load my desktop, my custom background loads, but no taskbar or icons will load. It stops and gives me a new error:

" This program has performed an illegal operation and will be shut down.

Explorer caused an invalid page fault in module explorer.exe at 0167:00401f31."

(stackdump, random numbers, etc)

after clicking out of that dialog box, the desktop stays blank and refuses to load. There is no taskbar, icons, or anything else, just my background. Nothing works, I have to restart using ctrl+alt+del.

* Reformatting is NOT an option since I now have no way to backup my files.

If anyone can tell me what to do to make the desktop load properly so I can back my files up, i'd greatly appreciate it. If anyone needs additional info from me to fix the issue, please ask me.

Thanks!

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/computer_help/565826.html

Date: 01/08/06 (Computer Help)    Keywords: virus, antivirus, web, yahoo, microsoft, google

On my older computer (a Dell that runs Windows 98), I keep getting invalid page fault errors. Several occur after Windows has loaded:
YOP (that's Yahoo Online Protection)
rundll32
and something called autodown

It also occurs when I startup Internet Explorer, I get that program error message asking me if I want to send data to Microsoft and then the program crashes. I can't access the Internet even though I'm connected.

All the errors say that the program caused an invalid page fault error at module "unknown"

I've tried running anti-virus (AVG) and Ad-aware... I have that computer networked with this one (running Windows XP) and sharing a DSL connection. After some issues in the beginning, I finally got the network up and running so I've been using this computer to download the antivirus programs so I can run them on the other one since I can't get IE to work there at all.
Another thing that may or may not be related: if I uncheck automatically detect settings under LAN settings in internet options, then IE doesn't crash, but the pages won't load.


I'm also having a small, unrelated issue on this computer (the windows XP one). I can't get the internet options setting for "never dial a connection" to stick. I have DSL, so I'm always connected, but certain sites make the dial a connection box pop up. And when I head back to internet options, the "dial whenever a network connection is not present" option is checked off.


Any help or suggestions are much appreciated! I've tried Dell's support website as well as Microsoft's and Googled 'til I couldn't see straight, but I haven't come up with any solutions for my problem.



EDIT: got the first problem solved - uninstalled Yahoo Online Protection and that did the trick!! Still can't figure out what's causing the never dial a connection setting to change. It's frustrating, but I figure it should go away once I delete my AOL account.

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/computer_help/563008.html

Date: 01/07/06 (Computer Help)    Keywords: microsoft

My mom's computer is running windows XP. At the moment it loads up to the log on screen. When log on details are entered it gives the message:
"This copy of windows must be activated with microsoft before you can log on. Do you want to activate now?"
If you click no it takes you back to the log on screen. If you press yes, it says "this copy of windows is already activated. Press ok to continue." and then takes you back to the log on screen.
Can anyone help, please?

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/computer_help/562748.html

Date: 01/13/06 (Computer Geeks)    Keywords: microsoft

My laptop has a really poor quality wifi adapter built in. I'm looking to buy a pcmcia adapter, and found this one: Cisco Aironet 802.11a/b/g Wireless CardBus [model number AIR-CB21AG-A-K9]. I've read that it can even be modified to accept an external antenna. I currently have a spare Microsoft MN-520 adapter, but it's not that good. Any thoughts?

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/computergeeks/858942.html

Date: 01/19/06 (SQL Server)    Keywords: database, asp, sql, web, microsoft

Okay, here's one for you. Not sure whether I should be posting here or in csharp; figured I'd try here first.

Trying to set up a SqlConnection in C#.NET (2005 Express Edition). When I test the connection, I get the following error:

An error has occurred while establishing a connection to the server. When connecting to SQL Server 2005, this failure may be caused by the fact that under the default settings, SQL Server does not allow remote connections. (provider: SQL Network Interfaces, error: 26 - Error Locating Server/Instance Specified)

All well and good... except the machine to which I'm trying to connect is running SQL Server 2000, not 2005.

There is no connection string as of yet-- it's simply trying to locate the database and access the data (which, I should add, I can do just fine with Enterprise Manager, Query Analyzer, etc.). All I have right now is an "Add Connection" dialog box that has the DSP (Microsoft Sql Server Database File (SqlClient)) and the physical path to the database file (\\edison\c$\Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server\MSSQL\Data\Hospital Rates_Data.MDF). I hit "test connection," and up comes the error.

I am aware of this article at support.microsoft.com. SQL Server 2000 was installed on this machine at least a year before 2005 was released, so that's not the problem (at least, not as they explain it here).Still, I attempted the workaround, and the user they specify does not exist, so I assume that 2005 was never installed on that machine. I've found no help through a websearch; is there no one that doesn't ask questions specifically related to ASP.NET? Sheesh.

If anyone has any ideas, I'd be grateful. Thanks.

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/sqlserver/41154.html

Date: 01/22/06 (Computer Help)    Keywords: microsoft

Hey again everyone. I asked a few weeks ago about an issue I was having building a new computer. Turns out it was a motherboard issue like some of you suggested, so I have a nice new one installed.

Unfortunately there is a new problem. I bought a Gigabyte K8 Triton nForce 4 Motherboard, and I was installing Windows and such last night. After a bit of difficulty (since it was screwing itself by trying to use RAID even though I just have one SATA drive in there), it finally worked. I did all the Windows updates, installed Norton, Microsoft Office, etc. Wel, towards the end of all of that, the keyboard stopped working (PS2). I didn't have a USB one where I was, so my friend and I thought it might have a setting in the BIOS taht he might have flipped while trying something. thought nothing of it and took it home, confident that the USB keyboard I planned on using would work fine.

Wrong. Neither USB or PS2 keyboards are working, nor are any USB mice. This is including ports on the case, the on-board ones, and the motherboard expansion USB slots as well. They work in BIOS, just fine. The only settings I can find in BIOS that are related to this are "USB Keyboards" and USB Mice" which I made sure were both enabled. I even tried disabling them and going back tot eh PS2 one, nothing.

Any idea why this would happen suddenly, and what I can do to fix it? Thank you so much in advance!

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/computer_help/568955.html

Date: 01/23/06 (Javascript Community)    Keywords: html, xml, java, microsoft

node is an element of xml (not xhtml!) document, is a child of response.xml.documentElement (from XmlHttpRequest or Msxml2.XMLHTTP, Microsoft.XMLHTTP).

Code var textContent = node.textContent works fine in Firefox and doesn't worsk in IE. I don't know how to get text contents of a node in IE, because of under it:

1. typeof node.textContent == undefined
2. typeof node.innerText == undefined
3. typeof node.innerHTML == undefined (it is normal, checked just in case)
4. typeof node.nodeValue == null (it's ok)

I use javascript code "inside" html document, declared as


http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">

Do you have any ideas?

update:

texContent = node.firstChild.nodeValue

It's enough in my case. You can [recursively] concatenate nodeValues of all text childs of given element if need.

ps: sorry for my english...

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/javascript/90948.html

Date: 01/24/06 (Computer Help)    Keywords: microsoft

I was suppose to turn in a major book report today to my english teacher. I typed the report on microsoft word 2000 on this ancient computer at my grandmothers. We don't have a printer here so I saved it to a disk and took it to school with me to print it out. Well after about an hour and a half of the program refusing to open and the disk drive giving a very annoying "bonk"ing noise every other second I finally figured that maybe the fact that we had word 2003 instead of 2000 on our school computer's was the problem. So I got on an older computer at the school and was able to get the program open but it went from around 6 pages to about 23 and it was filled with odd letters and little boxes. Well I didn't save it but when I got home and tried to open it on the same computer it still had all the boxes on it. I didn't save it anywhere else but the disk and I need to know if there's any way I could get rid of the boxes and get my words back. I would be very thankful, this is a very important report.

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/computer_help/571113.html

Date: 01/25/06 (Security)    Keywords: software, security, microsoft

Microsoft joins state lawmakers in filing suit against a software maker they say preyed on people's fears to sell a fake security tool.

Source: http://news.zdnet.com/2100-1009_22-6031108.html

Date: 01/30/06 (Security)    Keywords: microsoft

Q&A: Microsoft Windows' chief Jim Allchin answers questions submitted by readers about Windows Vista.

Source: http://news.zdnet.com/2100-1009_22-6032608.html

Date: 01/30/06 (Microsoft Windows)    Keywords: microsoft

I have a question regarding Microsoft Word.

A few years ago, I wrote an essay for school using Microsoft Word. Unfortunately, my old computer crashed and all of my saved documents were gone. I found a printed copy of this essay. I have another assignment where in which I would like to use parts of the essay as it is relevant. I want to add/delete certain parts, however. If I were to scan the essay, would I be able to open it in Word to make adjustments? You may be wondering why I'm not just retyping the essay but it's 15 pages long. It just seems as though it'd be faster to scan it.

Thank you.

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/ms_windows/57033.html

Date: 01/31/06 (Security)    Keywords: microsoft

Fan forum hosted by outside company is taken offline after an attack via Microsoft's Windows Meta File flaw is found on the site.

Source: http://news.zdnet.com/2100-1009_22-6033068.html

Date: 02/01/06 (IT Professionals)    Keywords: browser, microsoft

for those of you who have spare laptops or pcs, or like to play around with your comp, you can download this new browser interface from microsoft. microsoft have come out with a new browser, called Internet Explorer 7 Beta. beta means its not approved for commercial release. beta means, anything happened to your comp and data, thats your business.

http://www.microsoft.com/windows/IE/ie7/default.mspx

ive been using the browser as it was part of the windows vista OS ive been trying out and it seemed to be pretty stable. :) try it out if u can. :)


crossposted.

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/itprofessionals/32429.html

Date: 02/02/06 (Security)    Keywords: security, microsoft

Security product launching later this year will rival features in Microsoft's upcoming OneCare service and in Windows Vista itself.

Source: http://news.zdnet.com/2100-1009_22-6034127.html

Date: 02/10/06 (Security)    Keywords: microsoft

Monthly patch program will include seven bulletins for flaws in Windows and other Microsoft products.

Source: http://news.zdnet.com/2100-1009_22-6037605.html

Date: 02/09/06 (C Sharp)    Keywords: microsoft

I do hope this is an easier question (and that the answer isn't marred by an obscure Microsoft bug this time) than the last one.

I was going to try and do this generically, but it got too long-winded.
Form A: Categories. One of the columns in the datagridview is Parent (the Parent of the Category, naturally), and that column (a comboboxcolumn) has a datasource that points to the Parent table insteadof the Category table, and a Value Member of Parent. Form A also contains a button to open up form B.
Form B: has a datagridview that allows editing of the Parent table (to add new Parents).

At present, the code for the button on Form A is very simple:

BrowseParent frmParent = new BrowseParent();
frmParent.Show();

What I'd like to be able to do is monitor frmParent from inside this routine, and force the dataset pointing to the Parents table to refresh after frmParent closes (or, better, when btnSave is pressed in frmParent). Which leads me to two questions:

1. Is it possible to check from inside this routine to see if frmParent has closed? Or is it ultimately going to be easier friending the class(es) and doing it that way?
2. Is it, in fact, possible to force a refresh of a dataset without closing and reopening the form? Can't seem to find anything on it in BOL, and the dataset doesn't seem to have a Refresh() command attached to it.

Strike that, I really am as dumb as I look. I just called the tableadapter's fill() routine again.

Thanks.

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/csharp/49637.html

Date: 02/10/06 (Web Technology)    Keywords: yahoo, microsoft, google

Congressmen speak out against companies such as Yahoo, Google, Microsoft and Cisco Systems abiding by repressive law.

Source: http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9588_22-6037716.html

Date: 02/14/06 (Security)    Keywords: software, security, spyware, microsoft

Microsoft's Windows AntiSpyware tool called out some Symantec security products as malicious software that steals passwords.

Source: http://news.zdnet.com/2100-1009_22-6038852.html

Date: 02/14/06 (Computer Help)    Keywords: microsoft

I was doing school work in Notepad,copied it into Microsoft Word, and then it froze before I got a chance to save it! Therefore, I had to shut off my computer and reboot. I hoped that Microsoft Word would recover the text from the file, but it didn't.

Is there anything I can do to recover my work? It took my forever to complete. Ugh.

I use Windows 98.

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/computer_help/587128.html