Windows Blue screen of death! 0x0000007B message = possible workaround fix

We recently got one of these - can be very fustrating to fix and time consuming.  what we found:-

Scenario:   In windows bootup get blue screen error: 0x0000007B (0xBACC7524, 0x00000034, 0x00000000, 0x00000000)
Get same error when startup in Safe mode with Networking.
Only mode that worked was Safe mode and Safe mode command prompt.

1. check it's not anything in the startup, from dos type: msconfig.exe      and turn off startup programs.

2. try a windows restore checkpoint in Safe Mode

3. restore partition from backup image, when you then first boot after this restore make sure you boot in Safe Mode (THIS IS IMPORTANT), if you see a hardware change message then this is probably the reason why you're having issues booting.   then reboot in normal mode.

How to screen grab/capture on Mac - Keyboard Shortcuts

Keyboard Shortcuts - Screen Capture

• Command-Shift-3: Take a screenshot of the screen, and save it as a file on the desktop
• Command-Shift-4, then select an area: Take a screenshot of an area and save it as a file on the desktop
• Command-Shift-4, then space, then click a window: Take a screenshot of a window and save it as a file on the desktop
• Command-Control-Shift-3: Take a screenshot of the screen, and save it to the clipboard
• Command-Control-Shift-4, then select an area: Take a screenshot of an area and save it to the clipboard
• Command-Control-Shift-4, then space, then click a window: Take a screenshot of a window and save it to the clipboard

In Leopard and later, the following keys can be held down while selecting an area (via Command-Shift-4 or Command-Control-Shift-4):

• Space, to lock the size of the selected region and instead move it when the mouse moves
• Shift, to resize only one edge of the selected region
• Option, to resize the selected region with its center as the anchor point

Get File Association in C++ for open and print - directly from shlwapi dll

This is a slick way without the lastest sdk libs and headers by calling the DLL shlwapi directly, this way is more OS platform friendly.
NOTE: this function is not available in win98

extern "C" HRESULT ( STDAPICALLTYPE *pAssocQueryString )( UINT,UINT,LPCTSTR,LPCTSTR,LPCTSTR,LPDWORD ) = NULL;

#define ASSOCSTR_EXECUTABLE 2

void CTestassocDlg::OnOk()
{

HMODULE hMod = 0;

if ( ( hMod = ::LoadLibrary( _T( "shlwapi.dll" ) ) ) != 0 )
{
pAssocQueryString= (HRESULT (__stdcall *)(UINT,UINT,LPCTSTR,LPCTSTR,LPCTSTR,LPDWORD ) )::GetProcAddress( hMod, "AssocQueryStringA" );
}

if ( pAssocQueryString )
{
DWORD BufferSize = MAX_PATH;
char path[MAX_PATH];
pAssocQueryString(0, ASSOCSTR_EXECUTABLE, ".pdf", "print", path, &BufferSize);

}

}

VK_ALT undeclared / undefined C++

It's actually defined as VK_MENU

e.g.


// VK_ALT
void AltKey()
{
    INPUT input[1] = { '\0' };       
 memset(input, 0, sizeof(input));          
 input[0].type = INPUT_KEYBOARD;   
 input[0].ki.dwFlags = 0; // KEYEVENTF_EXTENDEDKEY; 
 input[0].ki.wVk = VK_MENU;
 input[0].ki.wScan = 0;
 input[0].ki.dwExtraInfo = 0;   
 input[0].ki.time = GetTickCount(); Sleep(5); 
 SendInput(1, input, sizeof(INPUT));
}
void AltKeyRelease()
{

    INPUT input[1] = { '\0' };       
 memset(input, 0, sizeof(input));            
 input[0].type = INPUT_KEYBOARD;   
 input[0].ki.dwFlags = KEYEVENTF_KEYUP; 
 input[0].ki.wVk = VK_MENU;
 input[0].ki.wScan = 0;
 input[0].ki.dwExtraInfo = 0;   
 input[0].ki.time = GetTickCount(); Sleep(5); 
 SendInput(1, input, sizeof(INPUT));
}

Ghostscript gs - create pdf from pdf or other type, how to convert patterns to bitmaps and keep all other bitmaps dpi's untouched

It seems that dPDFSETTINGS=/screen    has an hidden option to convert patterns to bitmaps, problem is that with this the images are downsamsampled, to get around this do:-

(this converts patterns to bitmaps as 600dpi)

"C:\Program Files\gs\gs9.02\bin\gswin32c.exe" -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -dNOPAUSE -dBATCH -dQUIET   -dPDFSETTINGS=/screen -dDownsampleColorImages=false -dDownsampleGrayImages=false -dDownsampleMonoImages=false -r600 -dEmbedAllFonts=true -dOptimize=true -sOutputFile="out-test.pdf" "test.pdf"

Windows 7 program didn't install correctly - installshield setup.exe - PCA program compatability assistant FIX

Have old installsheild projects that show this when installing on Windows 7 64bit or other versions?

Right mouse on the setup.exe, Properties and go into compatability tab, change "Run with campatability mode for" to Windows 2000

This seems to fix the program not installed correctly message.

how use string table RESOURCE STRING in message box or other functions easily on one line of code

usually would be called like this:-
MessageBox("No files to save","Save Error!");

From resource stirng table:-
MessageBox((CString)MAKEINTRESOURCE(IDS_STRING_NOFILESTOSAVE),(CString)MAKEINTRESOURCE(IDS_STRING_SAVEERROR));

GetSaveFileName OPENFILENAME save button not working on windows 7

This is todo with Themes & the manifest file, if you right mouse on the exe and select Compatibility tab, then select "Disable visual themes"   save button will then work ok.

changing stack reserve to a smaller size also fixes the issue: e.g. 0x800000