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Error 1402 Visual Studio 2008 installation

Job Vermeulen (admin) — Tue, 27 Apr 2010 11:40:22 +0000

My Visual Studio installation was delete from a disk, so I tried to reinstall it.

In the middle of the installation i received an Error 1402 Could not open registery key .

I tried to fix it manually but without success.

Try to reset the hole registry permissions with this command:

Windows 7 and Vista:

secedit /configure /cfg %windir%\inf\defltbase.inf /db defltbase.sdb /verbose

Make sure you run this command as Administrator.

IIS not showing images and CSS

Job Vermeulen (admin) — Fri, 23 Apr 2010 18:45:43 +0000

The problem:

I loaded a ASP.NET application on my Windows 7 IIS 7.5 installation. The code compiled fine but..

When I opened the website http://localhost/myapp it didnt show me any images or CSS. Only text on a blank page.

The solution for me was to install the “Static Content” support for IIS.

Go to “Turn Windows features on or off”
Select Internet Information Services
Select World Wide Web Services
And check Static Content

Hope it will help someone

Outlook signature ActiveX Error

Job Vermeulen (admin) — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 14:21:02 +0000

When Outlook gives you a activex security error when opening a new email try this:

Reset the restricted access websites in IE to the default.

http://forums.windowsitpro.com/web/forum/messageview.aspx?catid=40&threadid=45944&enterthread=y

Unable to install DVD/CD Driver Windows

Job Vermeulen (admin) — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 13:54:21 +0000

If your having problems installing your DVD or CD drive check this instructions:

Check in “Device Manager” if your drive is shown with a “yellow !”. If not, this is no solution for you.

Solution for following errors:

Error message 1

The device is not working properly because Windows cannot load the drivers required for this device (Code 31).

Error message 2

A driver for this device was not required, and has been disabled (Code 32 or Code 31).

Error message 3

Your registry might be corrupted. (Code 19)

You receive an “error code 39″ error message.
A message that resembles the following appears in the notification area: Windows successfully loaded the device driver for this hardware but cannot find the hardware device. (Code 41)

Step 1: Start Registry Editor

Start Registry Editor.

Step 2: Delete the UpperFilters registry entry

In Registry Editor, expand My Computer, and then expand HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE.

Expand SYSTEM, and then expand CurrentControlSet.

Expand Control, and then expand Class.

Under Class, click {4D36E965-E325-11CE-BFC1-08002BE10318}.

In the details pane of Registry Editor, on the right side, click UpperFilters.

Note You may also see an UpperFilters.bak registry entry. You do not have to remove that entry. Click UpperFilters only.

•	If you see the UpperFilters registry entry in the details pane of Registry Editor, go to step 6.
•	If you do not see the UpperFilters registry entry, you still might have to remove the LowerFilters registry entry. To do this, go to “Step 3: Delete the LowerFilters registry entry.”

On the Edit menu, click Delete.

Click Yes when you receive the following message:

Are you sure you want to delete this value?

The UpperFilters registry entry is removed.

Step 3: Delete the LowerFilters registry entry

1.	In the details pane of Registry Editor, on the right side, click LowerFilters. Note You might see a LowerFilters.bak registry entry. You do not have to remove that entry. Click LowerFilters only. If you do not see the LowerFilters registry entry, unfortunately this content is unable to help you any more. Go to the “Next Steps” section for information about how you can find more solutions or more help on the Microsoft Web site.
2.	On the Edit menu, click Delete.
3.	Click Yes when you receive the following message: Are you sure you want to delete this value? The LowerFilters registry entry is removed.
4.	Exit Registry Editor.

Step 4: Restart your computer

Source:

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/314060

Multiple mouse cursors on a Windows Desktop

Job Vermeulen (admin) — Sat, 01 Nov 2008 19:23:18 +0000

Ever thought of two mouse cursors at the same time? After googling I found a SDK from Microsoft, to make multi mouse available WITHIN your own application. I was wondering if this can be done system width.

The answer is YES!

There’s an open source project named CPNMouse (kinda outdated, last update was in 2004) but it works!

Download the custom driver (make sure you have the binary) from this website.

Select your mouse in device manager, and update the driver to the downloaded on. Instructions

If windows tells you there is no supported hardware in this driver follow these instructions (easy to fix!):

Windows 2000/XP/2003

Open Start -> Programs -> Accessories -> System Tools -> System Information. If this is not available on your computer, you may also be able to use BusHound to obtain the information.
In this program select Components -> Input -> Pointing Devices
The information in under PNP Device Id is what you need. It is in the form USB\VID_XXXX&PID_YYYY\
You need the numbers XXXX and YYYY
You must add a line to cpnmouse.inf. The line is “%CPNGroup.DeviceDesc1% = usbinst, HID\VID_XXXX&PID_YYYY“, where XXXX and YYYY are the numbers found earlier. You should add the line just after the other lines looking just like it
If you send the numbers to me, I will add them to the distribution

After you successfully installed this driver (on both mouses!) download and run the ordinary-binary application. This starts two mouse pointers witch can move separated.

It works, but the scroll function is lost (after the application is starts, not by installing the driver).

Try it yourself

PS: It’s working on Windows XP SP3

Extra link:

Funny little multi mouse game:

http://www.nekogames.jp/mt/2008/01/cursor10.html