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    Tried that out on my Windows XP Pro SP2 and it works. You need the hotfix and you have to create the correct registry key.

    Key: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\System\Shutdown
    Value Name: ShowHibernateButton
    Type: REG_DWORD
    Value: 1 (Hexadecimal)

    Alternatively, you could use the registry imports that I exported just now to toggle the enabling and disabling. You can get them from this page on my site http://forums.xisto.com/no_longer_exists/

  2. Posted · Edited by turbopowerdmaxsteel (see edit history) · Report reply

    Ok I read the thread located at http://forums.xisto.com/topic/90033-topic/?findpost=1064346584 about the 4th Hibernate button update.

    Here's what I feel has happened to your system. Being preloaded with XP Home, your Windows had the hotfix KB893056 installed (or Win XP Home has the fourth button feature embedded in it). When you upgraded to XP Pro, the hotfix might have failed to upgrade (or as per the second case, the hotfix didn't exist altogether). Check the Add/Remove Programs and make sure the hotfix is being shown as installed. If not contact Microsoft for the hotfix at https://support.microsoft.com/contactus/?ws=support

    Microsoft states:-

    When you click ?Turn Off Computer? on the Start menu, the Hibernate button does not appear in Windows XP Service Pack 2 or in Windows XP Tablet PC Edition 2005

    I wonder if it means that the non SP2 versions of XP do have the fourth button. Either ways, installing the hotfix should be the solution.

  3. Posted · Edited by turbopowerdmaxsteel (see edit history) · Report reply

    Although this is too simple a thing to miss out on..Check out if the Power Options properties contains the Hibernate Tab. You might have the Enable Hibernation checkbox unchecked. If the Hibernate Tab is not available, you are most likely having a driver incompatibility.Hibernate requires compatible drivers, but since you are upgrading from Win XP Home to Pro that shouldn't be the problem. You might still trying updating your drivers (The Graphics driver could be the most likely cause).Hibernation can also be disabled if you have more than 4 GB of RAM which is highly unlikely.By the way, I've never see the fourth hibernate button on the shutdown menu. The Hibernate button is overloaded into the stand by button. Holding down on the Shift key, toggles it to Hibernate (H being the accesskey). Another simple thing to miss out on.

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    I know we are getting a bit off topic, but...No matter what you call Microsoft's putting together of the trademark Visual Studio members, you can't deny that they have pioneered many new technologies. Let me state some pertaining to the revolutionary Visual Basic.VB6 is undisputedly the world's most popular language.> The name visual itself is very important, for the first time, people could drag and drop controls onto a design surface and see how a program would look without going through the lengthy edit-compile-test cycles required by other languages.> Stepping through code while debugging - just ask any VB developer if they could do without it.> The introduction of Active X Controls took the idea of code reusability to a completely new level. > VB was also the first popular general-purpose language to offer truly integrated database access.> The IDE concept that VB revolutionized has now been incorporated by non Microsoft products too (Delphi, Java).> Intellisense - It speeds up software development by reducing the amount of keyboard input required and allows less reference to external documentation due to embedded function signatures and short descriptions.True it lacked the pure object oriented power of other languages, but hasn't it caught up with .NET? As we programmers grow lazier day by day :), changes such as these are greatly welcome and with the further advent of hi-tech sidekicks, we will do so even more.

  5. Posted · Edited by turbopowerdmaxsteel (see edit history) · Report reply

    Google is very strange.. I told google to serach my site but it took 2 months to get listed but my other site i never even ask it it get listed in 5 days? What is happening??


    Google Search relies on page ranks to decide which pages of a site to include in the search index. One of the criteria in the evaluation of such page ranks is how many other sites refer to that page. The more the page rank of your site's pages, the greater is the chance that they will be included in the search listing. I have had simillar woes and resorted to advertising my pages on forums which are crawled by the google bot quite often. (It wasn't spamming, though) Finally, my pages appeared on google index.

    You can also submit a sitemap containing a list of the pages your site contains and submit it to google. That aids google in crawling your page, but doesn't guarantee listing.

    Check out https://support.google.com/webmasters/?hl=en for more information.

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    Sometimes, button smashing is the way to go. But, it can't be trusted for most of the combos. Like in Guity Gear X(X2), I can't do some of the overdrive attacks (2QF is what they are called, I presume) without button smashing.But, that doesn't mean I am a button smasher. Its just that to be the best you got to employ everything. :)

  12. Posted · Edited by turbopowerdmaxsteel (see edit history) · Report reply

    Yahoo! was the first place I required an ID. I inspired the nick name from the fictional Nano probe infused secret agent - Max Steel.

     

    I used this short program of mine to get a unique and cool name.

     

    Module Module1	Sub Main()		Dim ReadText As String		Console.WriteLine("Enter the probable words seperated by a comma:")		ReadText = Console.ReadLine()		Dim Params() As String = Split(ReadText, ",")		Console.WriteLine(vbCrLf & "Use this Nick Name:" & MakeNickName(Params))		Console.ReadLine()	End Sub	Structure CoolWords		Dim Word As String		Dim CoolNess As Double	End Structure	Function MakeNickName(ByVal Parameters() As String) As String		Dim TheCoolWords() As CoolWords = Nothing		Dim Param As String		Dim FinalNickName As String = ""		Dim Message As String = ""		Dim Character As Char		Dim Counter As Short = 0		For Each Param In Parameters			ReDim Preserve TheCoolWords(Counter)			With TheCoolWords(Counter)				For Each Character In Param					.CoolNess += GetCharCoolness(LCase(Character))				Next				.Word = Param				.CoolNess = .CoolNess / Param.Length			End With			Counter += 1		Next		Dim I As Integer, J As Integer		For I = 0 To TheCoolWords.Length - 2			For J = I + 1 To TheCoolWords.Length - 1				If TheCoolWords(J).CoolNess > TheCoolWords(I).CoolNess Then					Swap(TheCoolWords(I), TheCoolWords(J))				End If			Next		Next		Dim Uniqueness As Double = 0		For I = 1 To 0 Step -1			Uniqueness += GetUniqueness(TheCoolWords(I).Word)			FinalNickName &= LCase(Replace(TheCoolWords(I).Word, " ", ""))		Next		Return FinalNickName	End Function	Function GetCharCoolness(ByVal Character As Char) As Double		Dim CoolString As String = "a23b43c43d56e78f45g45h34i67j96k56l67m76n45o78p78q34r47s78t88u56v56w84x85y76z94 00"		If InStr(CoolString, Character) = 0 Then Return 0 Else Return Val(Mid$(Split(CoolString, Character)(1), 1, 2)) / 100	End Function	Function GetUniqueness(ByVal Word As String) As Double		Dim UniqueString As String = "Max Steel05Nano Probe infused94Secret Agent06N-Tek45T-Juice96Turbo Powered60X-Games05"		If InStr(UniqueString, Word) = 0 Then Return 0 Else Return Val(Mid$(Split(UniqueString, Word)(1), 1, 2)) / 100	End Function	Sub Swap(ByRef Value1, ByRef Value2)		Dim Temp		Temp = Value1		Value1 = Value2		Value2 = Temp	End SubEnd Module

    With the input of "Max Steel,Nano Probe infused,Secret Agent,N-Tek,T-Juice,Turbo Powered,X-Games" I had before me turbopoweredmaxsteel.

     

    It didn't end there. Being on Yahoo! got me eventually banned from entering chat rooms, because of having more than 4 IDs in the same room. So I had to get a new one, and got the e removed from turbopowerdmaxsteel and thats how it has been ever since.

  15. Posted · Edited by turbopowerdmaxsteel (see edit history) · Report reply

    Jimmy Wales, the founder of Wikipedia, the online encyclopaedia, is set to launch an internet search engine with amazon.com that he hopes will become a rival to Google and Yahoo!
    Mr Wales has begun working on a search engine that exploits the same user-based technology as his open-access encyclopaedia, which was launched in 2003.

    The project has been dubbed Wikiasari â a combination of wiki, the Hawaiian word for quick, and asari, which is Japanese for ârummaging searchâ.

    Mr Wales told The Times that he was planning to develop a commercial version of the search engine through Wikia Inc, his for-profit company, with a provisional launch date in the first quarter of next year.

    Earlier this year he secured multimillion-dollar funding from amazon.com and a separate cash injection from a group of Silicon Valley financiers to finance projects at Wikia.

    However, it is understood that amazon has also collaborated with Mr Wales on the search engine project and is expected to lend its support to the venture in the future.

    Mr Wales, a 40-year-old former options trader, believes that, as the popularity of Google has grown, obvious flaws in its search engine technology have become apparent.

    âGoogle is very good at many types of search, but in many instances it produces nothing but spam and useless crap. Try searching for the term âTampa hotelsâ, for example, and you will not get any useful results,â he said.

    Spammers and commercial ventures are also learning how to manipulate Googleâs computer-based search, he added.

    Mr Wales believes that Googleâs computer-based algorithmic search program is no match for the editorial judgment of humans.

    Google searches are conducted using an algorithm that calculates how many other websites are linked to a certain site, which in turn gives the material found by the search a ranking. Therefore, the first result in any Google search is the website that has the most links pointing to it.

    Wikipedia is an encyclopaedia written by thousands of contributors from around the world, known as âWikipediansâ, using free open-source software.

    Mr Wales aims to exploit the same network of followers and the same type of free software to create his search engine.

    âEssentially, if you consider one of the basic tasks of a search engine, it is to make a decision: âthis page is good, this page sucksâ,â Mr Wales said. âComputers are notoriously bad at making such judgments, so algorithmic search has to go about it in a roundabout way.

    âBut we have a really great method for doing that ourselves,â he added. âWe just look at the page. It usually only takes a second to figure out if the page is good, so the key here is building a community of trust that can do that.â

    Mr Wales believes that the reputation already fostered by his Wikipedia community and the transparency of his technology will build sufficient trust in his search engine to bring in advertising revenue and make the Wikiasari venture profitable.

    âThe revenue model of search is advertising. Transparency in search, therefore, is like transparency in news. If the quality is there people will come.â

    Catching up with Google, Yahoo!, Microsoftâs MSN or even smaller operators such as Ask.com will be a difficult challenge, Mr Wales conceded.

    Source: http://www.thetimes.co.uk/


    From my experience, I think Wikipedia does a really good job. I have learnt about so many things from it. Hope they win the search engine battle .Either ways, we are going to be the winners.

  16. Posted · Edited by turbopowerdmaxsteel (see edit history) · Report reply

    I am looking for partners for establishing an educational software company. Educational in the sense, that it would be primarily for gaining experience and widening technical horizons. We would be developing softwares and deploying them through our site.

     

    Little Background about me:-

     

    Name: Partho Sarathi a.k.a Max Steel

    Age: 19

    Sex: Male (Sarathi might sound feminine)

    Profession: Student + Programmer + Gamer

    Qualifications:-

    Doing Bachelor in Computer Application + GNIIT Software Engineering + Oracle Certified Proffessional Vendor Certification, 6 Months Diploma in Computer Application

     

    Programming Knowledge:-

    Academics: 4 years GW-Basic in high school, 2 years C++ (16 bit) in Senior Secondary, 2 months C++ (32 bit) in NIIT, 2 months MS-SQL Server 2000 in NIIT, C# (currently doing) in NIIT

     

    Non Academical: 3 years experience in Visual Basic, 1 year in VB .NET, Other skills: HTML, PHP, XML, Javascript and a few others.

     

    Dating the Computer is my favourite past time :P , so expect full commitment from me.

     

    I have a prototype company located at http://forums.xisto.com/no_longer_exists/ which contains the following softwares:-

     

    Pika Bot -> The most powerful Yahoo! Bot.

    Photo Downloader -> Cool tool to search & download photos from the Internet.

    Webshots Photo Downloader -> Simulates the browser activity to download Non-Premium photos from the webshots collections.

    MD5 Calculator -> Small tool to calculate the MD5 cheksum of a file and compare MD5 cheksums of two files.

    Desktop Fun -> A tool that I made out of boredom. Have fun with the Desktop wallpaper.

     

    One man army isn't enough in this endeavour and I would greatly appreciate the enthusiasts to join me in my venture.

     

    Interested techies can reply here with there profiles.

  17. Posted · Edited by turbopowerdmaxsteel (see edit history) · Report reply

    I have tried everything to find out about the progressbar that Norton Internet Security 2006 uses during its preinstall scan. The search style of VB .NET 2005 's progressbar doesn't resemble the cool look of the one used by norton. Having checked the dependency of the Application, I found out that it uses comctl32.dll version 6.0.2600.2180. I cannot even add a reference to it in VB .NET. Can anyone tell me how do I use that control in my application? Or is it only possible in VC++ 7.1 in which Norton Internet Security was developed?

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    Backward Direction

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  18. Posted · Edited by turbopowerdmaxsteel (see edit history) · Report reply

    I think what you just wrote about GMail is a bunch of crap.

     

    Having given many other E-Mail Services a shot, I finally found one that fullfills all my needs (ok almost).

     

    GMail keeps up with Google's foundation goals -> Speed & Ease of Use.

     

    :( Talking about speed, I am yet to find a match for GMail. Try the basic HTML view if you want faster perfomance.

    ;) The search option is the easiest way to get to old messages.

    :P I guess you didn't realize the fact that its FREE + POP3 Support, No annoying Ads, Strong Spam Filter, Alerts, Chat Conversations Archive. What more can you ask for without paying a penny?

     

    :( Although, I do agree with you on one thing - 2 GB is just too much (unless offcourse if you have Spam subscriptions).

     

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    Actually, I am trying to create a Download Manager (infact I have a sound working one). I want to make a class FTP Engine, which would do all the low level handlings and enable file downloads. For this I have delcated the following objects :-

     

    Dim WithEvents FTP0 As New FTPEngine

    Dim WithEvents FTP1 As New FTPEngine

    Dim WithEvents FTP2 As New FTPEngine

    Dim WithEvents FTP3 As New FTPEngine

     

    The problem I am facing, is the exception that I mentioned, being genereated whenever I try to Call Methods or Functions of an object of AxMSWinsockLib class. However, working with MSWinsockLib class, seems to be working.

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    The following is the code that I am testing with.

     

     

    Public Class Form1

    Private sckCom As New MSWinsockLib.Winsock

    Private sckDat As New AxMSWinsockLib.AxWinsock

    Private Sub Form1_Load(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles MyBase.Load

    sckCom.Close()

    sckDat.Close()

    End Sub

    End Class

     

     


    The sckCom.close() method works fine, but the sckDat.close() method causes the following exception :-

     

    Exception of type 'System.Windows.Forms.AxHost+InvalidActiveXStateException' was thrown.

     

    I am not sure why this error is being generated. Also what are the differences betweem the two class libraries 'MSWinsockLib' & 'AxMSWinsockLib'.

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