I have Vista Home Premium 32-bit. Hundreds of years ago, UNIX had a command (and maybe still does) that allowed you to check which version of a command was being invoked on the command line. For example, assume you have several Java versions on your machine. The command: whence java would give you the complete path for the specific "java.exe" that would be used if you typed, for example:
View 2 RepliesI need to use a UNIX like OS (Linux/FreeBSD/OpenBSSD etc...) alongside my vista box. I have decided against a dual boot scenario, because I need both accessable at same time, which leads me to useing either MS Virtual PC 2007 or VM Ware. As for the Guest OS, probably going to go with Linux, not sure wich distro yet, but inside there all pretty much same and I dont need a pretty gui, so I am not terribly worried about graphics card emulation. My host system is a Vista Ultimate64 laptop, 4gig mem, 360gb disk drives @ 7200rpm (X2), and Intel Core 2 duo @ 2.8ghz so I dont see a issue with that.
What I need some advice is this, Virtual PC 2007 or VMware workstation, I know VMware is $180ish, thats not a issue, what I am looking for is the best solution. Anyone here have experiance with one or both and have some opinions, speed comparisone etc? FYI I will be doing bridged networking so the guest OS can get its own IP and not rely on NAT from the host.
"Client faces strong competition from well-established companies with differing approaches to the PC market. Competing commercial software products, including variants of Unix, are supplied by competitors such as Apple, Canonical, and Red Hat. Apple takes an integrated approach to the PC experience and has made inroads in share, particularly in the U.S. and in the consumer segment. The Linux operating system, which is also derived from Unix and is available without payment under
a General Public License, has gained some acceptance, especially in emerging markets, as competitive pressures lead OEMs to reduce costs and new, lower-price PC form-factors gain adoption. Partners such as Hewlett-Packard and Intel have been actively working with alternative Linux-based operating systems."
Under Unix a logged in user can print to a printer with the lpr command. What happens is that the print job goes to a special directory on the Unix operating system's filesystem such directory known as a spool directory. From the spool directory the job goes into the printer's memory from which it is printed. When a printer is turned off its RAM is cleared so that it does looses knowledge of such jobs when it is turned on. However, under Unix whatever was in the spool directory remains there and if you power off the computer and then back on it keeps sending it to the printer. Now, I don't know what the equivalent of a spool directory under Unix is called under Windows, but I would like to clear it by cancelling all print jobs from the user I am logged into. So how do I cancel print jobs under Windows Vista Home Premium SP1? This would save me lots of wasted ink and paper,
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View 7 Replies View Relatedthis in right part of the forum, if not, moderators please move it to ) Microsoft Windows [Version 6.0.6001] All rights reserved. C:Usersuser>tracert www.vistax64.com 'tracert' is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file. C:Usersuser>ping vistax64.com 'ping' is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file. This just started happening to me. What could be the problem? How can i fix this.
View 9 Replies View RelatedI am writing to this Forum in desperation because I cannot find any way to get in touch by email with Windows Live OneCare even though I am a paid subscriber. I have NOT had a good experience of MS tech support. After 18 months of endless problems with Windows VISTA Ultimate Edition V 6001 I now wish to reformat my computer and get RID of it altogether, replacing it with System 7 for which I have a serial number and a beta download from the recent Microsoft online download offer.
As VISTA seems to have eleminated DOS altogether and the old FDisk command doesn't work from a command line start, I have tried to reformat from my OEM Vista Ultimate Edition re-installation DVD which I am certain used to offer me reformat and partitioin delete as the first options but that no longer seems to offer me any reformat option at all and not only instists only on re-installing VISTA (which I no longer want) but leaves the old installation in a directory renamed "WindowsOld" which VISTA will then not allow me to delete....
Have Vista Ultimate and am trying to set one of the dreams as my desktop. I have downloaded and installed all Ultimate upgrades (Dreamscene plus the dream packs) as well as the Stardock Deskscapes but I casn't get any of the installed dreams to work. I get an error message saying "Dream is not allowed" with no option of fixing it (or clue as to why it's not allowed). Anyone have a similar problem or a solution?
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View 4 Replies View RelatedI have just started having problems sending emails, I am receiving my emails with no problems. I have even added the windows mail to be allowed through the firewall. I don't know if there was a windows update that has caused the problem since I have not had problems like this before. A window pops up stating....your server has unexpectedly terminated the connections. Possible causes for this include server problems, network problems, or longer periods of inactivity. Error number 0x800CCCoF. My internet provides say there is no problem on their end and that it must be a firewall problem.
View 9 Replies View RelatedI am so tired of all of the, what appear to be, bugs with this new system. The irritating pop-ups everytime I want to do something (like access user controls, delete a folder, etc.) that want confirmation. Unfortunately I purchased this comptuer with Vista Home installed. Is there a way to just install XP Home back on this thing? I have tried with the XP Home CD and it appears that it will not allow the system to be rolled back.
View 8 Replies View RelatedAll of a sudden when I try to open attachments I get "The Command Failed To Execute" I hate Vista it gets worse and worse. They must have expected big problems as they uped their charges for help and when it crashes it now says do you want to return to your orginial site?
View 9 Replies View RelatedWithin the command prompt in Windows Vista, the dir command now shows non-zero byte counts for folders. This is a change from prior versions of Windows such that now, the output from the "dir" command does not match right-click, Properties from Windows Explorer in terms of total bytes for a folder (including subfolders). Is there any way to change the behavior of the "dir" command to report 0 bytes for folders?
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I don't see any way to get a DOS command line for VISTA. Is itg possible using VISTA?
View 9 Replies View RelatedWhy is there no 'connect' command for ftp? Used to be. Why?
There is disconnect, bye, why no connect.
Used to type connect then the ip address.
How do you connect now?
how do you IM from command prompt? I've heard of it, and tried one method, but it didn't work. i used: net send <IP address here> message here. it may be wrong, but ive read that's how to do it. i tried it with a friend last night, but nothing worked. it just said it couldn't find the file.
View 6 Replies View RelatedI upgraded to IE8 yesterday, and have experienced this problem since then. I was previously able to open the attachments, but now I am getting the error message, Command failed to execute.
View 9 Replies View RelatedI just installed IE8 and this is happening. What can I do about it?
View 9 Replies View Relatedthe thread title says it all: I'm looking for a lightweight bootable command prompt which supports ntfs drives and supports x64 command line tools. Something like Freedos x64 or command.com x64 (if they existed which unfortunately they don't).
So far, all I can do is to boot into Windows' own command shell, but this is far from being lightweight. Every Linux supports booting into a pure command line mode, so there must be something similar for Windows with x64 support. Basically, the recovery console would suffice if it allowed using external command line tools, but afaik this is not the case.
what is this command cd. it is not give a error message and it doesn't anything. what is this cd and one point cd .
View 9 Replies View RelatedThis problem started yesterday after downloading IE8, I went ina d changed the security setttings like advised in an earlier question. This solved the problem and worked yeasterday. Today when I try and open attachments it gives me the error "The command failed to execute" again. I have checked he security settings and reset the Internet settings. Still can't open attachments. What will resolve this issue?
View 9 Replies View RelatedGot this message today for the first time. We saved the file to our Documents & opened it there...
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