I'm familiar with windows systems, I work as a network admin with 7 enterprise, but this stumped me with one of my personal pc's.
I have a computer that is running windows 10 with 2 drive now, previously had a third one until it failed. I removed the D: drive and started downloading my games on my other one G: drive. I can not remove old installations of previously installed games on through app and features nor can I install games.
Example is fortnite, it says that it can not find D:...\fortnite...... Which makes sense since the drive is not in the computer. I have gone through the registry and removed (what I can see) all keys associated with the D: drive.
Is there a program or way to just remove all keys automatically associated with the missing drive? I tried CCleaner, Disk Cleanup, and one more my coworker recommended that I don't recall the name of. I ran Avast system check to see if it would notice the missing drive.
Any help is appreciated and thank you in advance.
Found an accidental solution, my little brother installed windows on the wrong computer so I guess this works.
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I recently downloaded Emu OS (a Linux distro) and installed it within virtual box. Everything works fine but I am unable to actually run the roms within an emulator. I tried a GBC rom that is in .zip format and I copied and pasted it into the GB and GBC folder, but the emulator itself isn;t able to recognize it. Does anyone have any experience with this or have gotten it to work?
One must simply drag the ROM file to the directory that is associated with the respective emulator. This can be done via the file manager. Afterwards, reboot and select the emulator that you desire and your game should show up in the list.
Note that EmuOS is extremely old and no longer maintained. RetroPi is a good alternative and putting ROMs on that is the same as EmuOS.
So I built a huge website for my company using the AnyCpu option. I didn't think it would matter - I have a 64bit machine with x64 windows, it's getting deployed to a x64 server, and there's no attached dll's, so it should just all be in 64, right?
Well, in the process of trying to implement some security, the company's support told us the application MUST be strictly x64. I figured it was, but to humor them, I went into the configuration manager, and changed all the target cpu, platform etc settings to x64.
Unfortunately now, it breaks when I hit f5 to run it. I've run into this before, I think, and I vaguely remember needing to delete some temp internet files somewhere, but I tried closing VS, deleting the bin folder, deleting the root folder from /framework/tempASPfiles... but I still get the BadImageFormatException - "an attempt was made to load the program with an incorrect format."
What's the best and fastest way to convert an app to x64? and am I right in thinking I need to delete some files somewhere?
I develop in VS 2012/.NET on several computers (all running Windows 8 Pro x64). Although VS is installed on all computers I keep the project folder on an external USB3 drive. Every once in a while I would find the project files had been corrupted on the USB drive (e.g. cross-linked). Fortunately I keep frequent backups but clearly this situation is intolerable, so I set out trying to find what the issue(s) might be.
I still don't have a clear answer but one piece of strange behavior is this: if I open the .SLN file for my project in VS 2012 when an .SUO file is NOT present it loads fine, builds are OK, etc. HOWEVER, if I then save the project, exit VS (so an SUO file is created) and then attempt to REOPEN the solution VS hangs at (....loading). I get the usual "Visual Studio is busy....." messages and there is no point in waiting, the solution just never loads. I have to kill VS in TM. I've tested this repeatedly, and I've even done it from the local hard disk (as opposed to the USB drive) to see if USB was the problem. It isn't. Remember, this is all on the same computer (so as to remove "moving" as the cause of the issue). The only way I can work with the project is to delete the SUO file before trying to open it.
I would assume, if this was a VS bug, it would be pretty much all over the web and my searches would have turned up something. So I'm asking if anyone has any idea what the problem might be or if there are links that might help me figure things out.
Thanks in advance.
Without using any third party program to do this (i.e. without VMware ThinApp, U3 or MojoPac etc.) How to move MSVC++ 6.0 from from its install on C: over to a USB drive? So that it can be used on different PCs with no admin rights and without installing anything on the host PC? Even if it's only usable as a console application would be fine, although to have the GUI including Visual Assist etc. would be even better.
Move the two folders that install created under c:\program files\ to the USB drive (e.g. to e:\progs\msvc\msvc6 and e:\progs\msvc\vc98), and append to the file e:\progs\msvc\vc98\bin\vcvars32.bat to suit e.g.
prompt $g
set path=e:\progs\uedit;e:\progs\utl;%PATH%
e:
cd e:\work
start e:\progs\uedit\uedit32.exe /i=e:\progs\uedit\uedit32.ini
cmd /k
Using a shortcut to vcvars32.bat then works fine for doing any simple console programming, which is all I’m using it for so far. I don’t know how well any of the GUI type programs in the tools folder will function.
I am not sure exactly how one would do that.
Here are a few ideas.
The installation procedure creates at least two sets of directories, so you could direct both of them onto the usb drive.
The installation procedure creates a bat file, that sets up the environment variables correctly for command line execution. Modifying it to point to the correct drive letter when your memory stick loads on the other machine may be important.
There are also registry entries for vc 6. Extracting them, and having a script of some sort to load them onto your target machine when needed, might be useful.
Is there a specific reason why vc 6 is required? Would another compiler do?
I haven't done this, but it should "just" be a matter of:
Copying all the application files to a USB drive. Remember there will be shared files and stuff that may need to go into the Windows directory.
Identifying and copying all of the registry entries, although you may need to be admin to create some of these on the target machine.
That's a heck of a lot of work, for little gain in my opinion. I think there may be a command line only version of the Visual C++ tool chain that may better suit your requirements. IIRC it was released to help people create build bots for open source projects, like the Mozilla Tinderbox, and includes the VC++ 7.0 compiler.
Has anybody come across this problem during an application install?
OS is Windows Server 2k3
I do have local Admin access and I have installed this application on other machines.
Any help would be much appreciated, as Google isn't helping much
This issue may occur if one or more of the following files are missing from the Windows\System32 folder:
Stdole32.tlb
Stdole2.tlb
Stdole.tlb
To resolve this issue, expand the appropriate file from the Windows Server 2003 Installation disk:
(using the command prompt)
Expand cd_drive_letter:\i386\filename.tl_ drive:\Windows\system32\filename.tlb
and then press ENTER.
filename is the name of the file that you want to expand
drive is the letter of the drive where Windows is installed