Questions tagged [controlpanel]
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How to read "List Separator" settings from Regional configuration of control panel?
I'm making multi culture plugin for MS Word,Excel
where I need to identify setting value provided in Regional Settings under "List Separator" Option, how can I read using C# ?
This List separator is later on being used to construct Excel formulas,…

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How do I get to IIS Manager?
In trying to reconnect and reconfigure an existing project on a new machine, I find here (The Web Application Project [...] is configured to use IIS. The Web server [...] could not be found. ), based on the err msg I got on opening the project, that…

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Windows 10 equivalent of LaunchAdvancedAssociationUI
Since Windows 10, the IApplicationAssociationRegistrationUI::LaunchAdvancedAssociationUI method does not work anymore.
On Windows Vista, 7 and 8, it opens the Control Panel on the Set Program Associations page for specified application.
On Windows…

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Xampp - Apache Shuts Down Unexpectedly, Empty Log File And No Events
I have XAMPP installed on my machine. I am trying to run Apache from the XAMPP Control Panel.
I start the XAMPP Control Panel by right-clicking the shortcut and selecting "Run as administrator" (I am logged in on an account with Administrator…

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C#: How to get installing programs exactly like in control panel programs and features?
I read a lot of information of getting programs. None of algorithms did do what I want. I need to get installed programs exactly like in control panel.
So I used:
WMI Win32_Product class. It shows only msi installed programs.
Registry keys.…

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Cron job in a different timezone
Is there a way of setting up a cronjob for a specific timezone?
My shared hosting is in USA (Virginia) and I am in UK. If I set a cron job to be executed at 1600 hrs every friday, then it will execute when its 1600 in Virginia.
I was wondering if I…

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PostgreSQL ODBC driver not showing up in Control Panel (Data Sources)
I installed psqlODBC and when I go to Control Panel -> Data Sources (ODBC) I don't see the Postgres driver installed.
I rebooted, still nothing.
I then noticed that if I launch this control panel applet from the file…

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Django: The best practice to implement CRUD outside the contrib.admin
I'm currently developing a Blog project using Post model, which will be used by multiple authors.
I want to make an admin/control-panel interface where each author of the Post can view the Post list the author created (so he won't see the Post…

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How can you programmatically turn off or on 'Windows Features'
Currently, users must go into Control Panel > Programs > Turn Windows features on or off, then click on the check the box of the feature that they want to activate. I'd like to give them the ability to do this from my application.
Any idea on how…

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xampp control panel EAccessViolation
Every time I quitt the xampp Control Panel following Error appears
How can I fix this?
Exception EAccessViolation in module xampp-control.exe at 0025B2AE.
Access violation at address 0065B2AE in module 'xampp-controle.exe'.
Read of address…

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Windows 7 touch screen - disabling multi-touch gesture not working
I have a touch screen computer with Windows 7 and I would like to disable the multi-touch gesture :
But even if I disable it and apply the changes, when I reopen the window, the option is enabled again...
Any idea where I can disable it for good ?…

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How to programmatically open control panel?
How do I open a custom control panel programmatically, like custom.cpl? Specifically, how do I open a 64-bit cpl when running as 32-bit application?

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getting system's double click timer interval in WPF (value from control panel)
I have a FrameworkElement and I want to perform action A when the user single clicks, and action B when the user double clicks.
Due to the way events are delivered, I always get a single click event which begins action A. After looking around, I…

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Memcache control panel?
We've been running eAccelerator on each of 3 webservers and are looking to move to a memcache pool across all 3, hopefully reducing by about 2/3 our db lookups.
One of the handy things about eAccelerator is the web-based control interface…

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Updating or adding a Java in the system tab of the Java utility in control panel
Problem: I have a 32-bit Java application that is failing in Windows.
I have both 32-bit and 64-bit versions of Java installed on the machine. The example below shows a 32-bit path because I'm not on the machine that has the issue. On the machine in…

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