Recent content by Dooda

Thanks John. I was hoping someone would have a registry tweak, but it seems there is no dependency on registry settings. I may have to set an alarm to remind me to do updates, and perhaps build a script to do the disable/enable as I'm bound to forget it.

It appears that Microsoft insist you should do Windows 7 updates when they want to. Setting it to "check for updates but let me choose...." will not stay at that if I do not choose to install any. It changes to "install automatically" and then proceeds to do so. Anyone know how to prevent this?

Thanks for your contribution, goombawaho, but I've covered that one. Now I'll check through the other items on the list on your link - not certain I've covered it before.

There are 3 PCs at home, 2 (not identical) Sony laptops and a self-built tower, all running Win7 home premium. The laptops were bought with Vista (not then current so money off) and an upgrade from Sony was applied to both; the tower had a clean install. Although all were on the homegroup, one...

Thanks, DjangMan. I haven't really done any coding for a long while, and when I last looked at using a sql db (instead of Paradox) it seemed that one needed a tailored set of database components. Presumably that is not now the case, as dbExpress components are accessible in the tool palette...

Can anyone advise me what components are available to use with Delphi 2005 and the current Mimer version (10), and how well they work?

You're right, of course. Have to admit it's over 30 years since I was employed to write COBOL and the brain is getting rusty as I am not supposed to do any coding now. (I enjoy it most but it does not pay enough.) Must have another attempt at using a TDataModule. Might be easier now on a...

Interesting that no-one seems to have an answer to this situation, perhaps indicating that there is no easy solution. There arises a suspicion that if you implement full OO encapsulation (if that's what it's called) then the fall in productivity caused by the loss of data control use outweighs...

I gather that to enable "rules" of whatever type that cannot be embedded in a common point, such as database triggers, they are built into the object's methods. This overcomes the problem of forgetting to put the "rule" in any place where it's relevant and having to ensure it's tested in each...

How can data controls be used with OO applications? If you have a Customer object through which all access to Customer's attributes is routed, how can a data grid be used to list all customer names? If the data table is linked to the grid, independence of the logic code from the data...

Turning Plug-N-Play off has had no effect on the problem. Looks as though it's goodbye motherboard. Thanks, Ben and xwb, for your positive suggestions.

Realised that BIOS reset is only a keystroke, so have tried it. It reset things but did not clear or alter the problem. With quiet boot set the error message does not appear before it hangs. Some more playing around has shown that if Internal LAN or Internal Modem are not disabled, again the...

Unfortunately no, I had seen that this seemed to be a good option but cannot find any way of resetting the BIOS.

Got a notebook that's hanging during POST after memory, BIOS, fixed disk, CD and mouse are passed, with message ERROR Warning: IRQ not configured - PCI Mass Storage Controller on Motherboard Bus:00 Device:1F Function:01 It invites you to resume but then hangs with blank screen, irrespective of...

Many thanks for the responses, guys. AutoRuns does seem to cover everything (at least I hope there isn't more than it is showing!) and makes it easy to turn things off, so I have fixed the time-wasting annoyance. Cannot get AutoRuns help to work though, but didn't need it for what I did.