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Overloaded Log File

Question: Our Web server (NT 4.0) became inoperable over the weekend due to a SQL Server error that stated that the “applications log file is full”. From what I understand,

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How do I get the TextBox to display

Question: How do I get the TextBox to display automatically at the end of text, instead of at the begining of the text? Answer: The answer is very simple. All

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Problem Using Execute SQL in Microsoft Query

Question: In Microsoft Query I can’t seem to use the Execute SQL function. I’m learning SQL from a book called The ColdFusion 4.0 Web Application Construction Kit (Macmillan, 1998). The

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User ID Scripts

Question: I need to write a script that tells me the last user_id entered on a table and then another script in order to allow me (or a user) to

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Format a drive using an undocumented function

SHFormatDrive is an undocumented but simple API function that allows you to format a drive. This function simply opens “Format Drive” diaolog window. Being undocument you won’t find its Declare

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Hide or disable the desktop icons

The Desktop is a window like any other window in the system, so you can hide/show and enable/disable it. The only details you need to know is how to retrieve

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Add pizazz to your apps with an animated cursor

Who said you can’t use an animated cursor with Visual Basic? Actually, it’s so simple! You just have to load your animated cursor through LoadCursorFromFile API function, then you get

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Display the “Shut down Windows” dialog

To programmatically display the “Shut down Windows” standard dialog box you can use the SHShutDownDialog undocumented API function, whose declaration is: Declare Function SHShutDownDialog Lib “shell32” Alias “#60” (ByVal lType