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Are you using VB6 or VBScript? There is a difference.If your coding this in notepad, im assuming your using VBScript? In that case im not sure how to Shell an application =/ sorry.

Firefox - I wanna sex it.uTorrent - For reasons listed and not listed above.Ventrilo - My favorite communication application! (Clan)Macromedia Fireworks - I never liked Photoshop, and I dont like the new Adobe versions of Fireworks either.Notepad - God, how would I store all my stuff?!? lol

Maybe im hallucinating, but it does take a couple seconds when you first go to the index page of the forums.Maybe my cache is erasing itself and im not realizing it. But I doubt its a virus, more likely computer settings.

I still have my beta key and download of Windows 7, but I haven't bothered to get a harddrive to play with it.From some buddies that are running 7 with similar setups to mine, they say that it runs just a TAD bit slowerthan XP but thats expected with the boost in rendering. If you have a newish computer though you should beable to run Windows 7 fine by the time they come out with the polished product.

If you're using VB6, use this code instead. Dim ReturnVal ReturnVal = Shell("C:\WINDOWS\System32\notepad.exe", 1) With VB6, you need the entire URL to the EXE even with system32 processes. I've forgotten some of my version 6 knowledge, but I do believe the 1 after the exe name is for when your handling multiple processes, you change the number incrementally. I may be wrong on that though.

Wow, in all my years of messing with windows files, I never noticed you could tweak that... cool.

It depends on what version of VB you're using. If your using VB.NET, use the line of code:Process.Start("Notepad.exe")That line of code, without giving the drive letter or folder information, will open a windows exe located in your system32 folder.To run a program other than a system32 application, use code similar to this:Process.Start("c:\folder\myapp.exe")These lines of code won't work if your using VB6.

The theory of internet computing is called Cloud Computing. The idea has been floating about for years. The reason the theory hasn't become reality is the speed and total bandwidth required would be well over 1000 times that of conventional connections available in countries such as The United States and Canada. Some northern european countries have some capabilities to start using this, but its still a few years off at least for them.

I love the concept. I helped a friend build one of these a few weeks back. The only problem with it is, if you want to change your parts. You're gonna be dealing with a pretty big mess taking the thing out, and then putting it back in.

I think there is a good reason cents can't be transferred. Now that posting is essentially worth real money, it would be extremely hard to track somone who spammed, and then quickly transferred the cents along a line of accounts very quickly. It would make the admin's jobs a lot harder.

@nirmaldaniel - For your idea that P2P will hinder technological advancement, I have just this one example to show you how peer to peer is helping us right now. This is not the perfect P2P network, as it does have a central network of computers that eventually have to receive the data, but here goes.Stanford University in California started a project between its College of Computer Science and its Biology department to work on using a supercomputer to 'fold' protein cells. The folded protein cells could provide information on helping to cure types of cancer. The problem was there are so many hundreds of thousands of cells to fold, it would take one supercomputer thousands of years to complete. So the Computer Science division of Stanford came up with the idea of using a sort of P2P network to do a spread load project between thousands of volunteers that would download information on a Protein cell, and then have their computer virtually 'fold' it, then send it back for study.This is a very simple form of P2P, but its done a world of good and HAS helped find very worthwhile results.

I haven't seen any discussions here yet about EA & DICE's new launch Battlefield Heroes. Its a FPS build very similar to the other battlefields with the primary distinction of being a cartoon shooter. Now, my first reaction to explaining this has been, "a cartoon shooter... probably crap..." Just recently my clan pre-ordered a server and got 16 beta keys. The reaction from EVERY single person has been that its amazingly addicting and fun. The graphics are cartoony, but extremely high quality. BFH is launched through a web browser (its essentially its own downloader). Its F2P (no paying or torrenting the game) and the only bonuses to people who spend money on the game is the ability to buy special clothing customization. Maps vary from large open maps including tanks, jeeps, planes and flak guns, to small town setting with a very competitive close quarter combat feel. BFH has been under works for over two years, and is currently in Closed Beta. website: http://forums.xisto.com/no_longer_exists/ My rating for BFH: 9 out of 10

Okay, to start off, I want to explain that what im asking probably can't even be done from what I've seen on google searches, but I thought I might post this and see if anyone knows how this would work. My experience level with Java is low, I've been studying it for a few months, did a basic applet that read a text file off of the web directory and displayed its data in the form of a roster. This applet can be found here (seeing what I did might be necessary to understand what I'm looking for) http://forums.xisto.com/no_longer_exists/ Now, what I want to do, is allow the applet to either write to a file inside the web directory (not the client's computer), or connect to a MySQL database. From what I've seen, all of the file access tutorials for java explain how to create certificates to manipulate files on the clients computer, I want to actually change the files on the web server. If that's not possible, I'd like to try to connect to a MySQL database (which would be safer and might allow me to advance my program to the level of a login system, but that's in the future. The problems I've encounter with MySQL are purely mental blocks so far. Everything I see is about having drivers on the computer connecting to the database, and since installing drivers on every computer that runs the applet is unreasonable, and since I don't have a way to install the drivers on a web-host, I don't see how its plausible. Maybe my vision is skewered though. Thanks - Xeta

There are actually quite a few programs out there that do free PC-to-Phone calling. Unfortunately after my last hard-drive crashed I lost all of them, but ill do some searching and try and come up with some links tonight. Generally the programs will give you about 30 minutes to an hour of free time a month, and then after that you would have to pay. But im sure there are some free ones if you search thoroughly.