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Hi all, The other day I worked on an issue related to a SubAuthentication package that one of my customers had developed. One of the things that package was doing was getting the LogonId field of the LogonInformation struct being passed to Msv1_0SubAuthenticationFilter
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Hi all, welcome back, I've been working on an issue where WM_SIZE events are not properly generated once the nesting hierarchy of windows exceeds a certain depth. This issue only occurs on current x64 Windows : like XP, Server 2008 or the latest Windows
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Hi all, I've been working on a Microsoft Remote Procedure Call (RPC) issue recently, where the first call to a specific remote method fails because the call to NdrClientCall2 function in the client stub returns RPC_S_ALREADY_LISTENING ( "The server is
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Hi all, If you try to use any SHA-2 algorithm ( SHA-256, SHA-384 and SHA-512 ) on Windows XP , you may get the following error when using i.e. CryptCreateHash : NTE_BAD_ALGID or -2146893816 or 0x80090008 or "Invalid algorithm specified" . Same algorithms
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Hi all, You may know already that there is no i.e. COM object or .NET class we can use to change the Windows Theme programmatically on Windows XP . You may also know the following VBScript which can be used to do this change without user intervention:
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Hi all, We get many requests from customers who have created a Password Filter and now would like to change the Change Password dialog of their Windows XP in order to reflect their new password policy . So when users try to change their password and it
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Hi all, You may be trying to install a hotfix or update silently , but you keep getting a security warning dialog because the file was downloaded from the Internet . The following article explains this situation: 889815 The Open File - Security Warning
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