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Mutex does not seem to lock
Posted on December 14th, 2004 | 2 Comments

I am currently having problems with my locks on my mutex not being obeyed. I have a function that is called from a DeviceIOControl to do some work on behalf of it. This requires me to lock the user...

Mutex does not seem to lock
Posted on December 14th, 2004 | 0 Comments

I am currently having problems with my locks on my mutex not being obeyed. I have a function that is called from a DeviceIOControl to do some work on behalf of it. This requires me to lock the user...

Mutex does not seem to lock
Posted on December 14th, 2004 | 0 Comments

I am currently having problems with my locks on my mutex not being obeyed. I have a function that is called from a DeviceIOControl to do some work on behalf of it. This requires me to lock the user...

Mutex does not seem to lock
Posted on December 14th, 2004 | 0 Comments

I am currently having problems with my locks on my mutex not being obeyed. I have a function that is called from a DeviceIOControl to do some work on behalf of it. This requires me to lock the user...

Need to write a wave driver for TAPI
Posted on December 14th, 2004 | 4 Comments

Hi, I need to support audio streams in my TAPI service provider. For this to work (aside from supporting it in TAPI), I have to write wave driver (which actually ideally runs in user space and does...

Printer DriverDate in the registry
Posted on December 14th, 2004 | 3 Comments

I would like to know the value of the DriverDate in the registry key of the printer driver. "DriverDate"=hex:00,00,65,87,26,db,c4,01 It seems Microsoft is encrypting the date in a 32 bit (8 bytes)...

security in the file system.
Posted on December 14th, 2004 | 0 Comments

I am creating a copy of the structure and files of a part of an existing file system. for...

How to get to know the MAC address in Windows systems?
Posted on December 14th, 2004 | 4 Comments

Hi all, Can anybody tell me how to get to know the MAC address in Windows environment using C programming? I need the MAC address in my program. Thanks a lot,

KeAcquireSpinLock and "Self-deadlock"
Posted on December 14th, 2004 | 4 Comments

It appears that Driver Verifier is more strict in Server 2003, than in XP SP1, when it comes to disallowing multiple KeAcquireSpinLock on the same thread. Upon finding this, it bugchecks...

Printer Monitoring
Posted on December 14th, 2004 | 1 Comments

Hello all. Is there a way to monitor all printing activity on a user's system? I'm not developing a driver for a particular printer, I want to be able to see all printing activity to any printer....

About network drives
Posted on December 14th, 2004 | 1 Comments

Hi Folks, is the installable file system development kit required to be able to query and disconnect network drives? Where else could i find some information about this topic? Please let me know if...

Network Accumulate Stats vs. instance?
Posted on December 14th, 2004 | 1 Comments

When checking the network info using OID (e.g. OID_GEN_RCV_ERROR) is it the number of error since the network activities started it or that instance when asking for info. e.g. I start the PC...

USB device driver Stress Testing
Posted on December 14th, 2004 | 0 Comments

Is it possible to use PnP Driver Test (pnpdtest.exe come from DDK) to do the *Stress Testing" on the usb device driver? Or is there any tools that can do the "Stress Testing" on the usb device driver...

Volume snapshots...
Posted on December 14th, 2004 | 2 Comments

I wish to get answer to some queries regarding VolSnap.sys ... (forgive me if they look silly because I dont have IFS kit currently in my hand but i have ordered it:)) 1- How to detect from Umode or...

Does usb audio class driver support usb 2.0 microphone?
Posted on December 14th, 2004 | 0 Comments

Windows provides usbaudio.sys for usb audio device. Does usb audio class driver support usb 2.0 microphone? What kind of driver architecture should I develop for usb microphone? AVstream?? Best...

Does usb 1.1 isochronous have limitation on maximum transfer size?
Posted on December 14th, 2004 | 0 Comments

Recently, I met a problem in usb 1.1 isochronous transfer. I set the maximum transfer size of isochronous endpoint to 128K. The maximum packet size is 1023 bytes. Thus, each urb performs 128 iso...

RE: How free scanner that is 'busy'?
Posted on December 14th, 2004 | 0 Comments

Your scanner is under control by the WIA service. It hides under one of the svchost.exe processes. Try restarting the WIA service while having the task manager open and observe which svchost.exe...

enable/disable 1394 write response packet
Posted on December 14th, 2004 | 0 Comments

Hello everybody, I have a question about write response packets. Can somebody help me to find information about write response packets. Is it so that a write request (QUADLET or BLOCK) expects...

A filter driver question,I need your help badly!
Posted on December 14th, 2004 | 1 Comments

hi, everyone,I am sorry to ask this win me question here.I cann't find a win me News and this is the only place I can count on. My question is: how to filter the multimedia keys such as Mute or WWW...

A question about NDIS set OID_802_3_MULTICAST_LIST
Posted on December 14th, 2004 | 1 Comments

-- Hi All, When NDIS set OID_802_3_MULTICAST_LIST ,what the informationBuffer include?How does the Addresses created? Sincerely yours, Tianjun