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Post #AvDuanOYFBDac1vmDI by [email protected] |
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fucking OLEI've got a system that has a control panel that uses windows'… |
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Post #AvDueL9bBZygBMcwS0 by [email protected] |
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you might think this would be an easy thing to look up, if you were unaware of … |
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Post #AvDuk4f5Pr6Elp5bJg by [email protected] |
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the installer and documentation for this program were thrown out back when clin… |
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Post #AvDuqFoYrZFb67T4l6 by [email protected] |
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the program only runs on NT4 and the assorted tools I'd use to try and debu… |
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Post #AvDuuNG18HjHL7H6SO by [email protected] |
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maybe I'll just duplicate the VM and start randomly deleting files/registry… |
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Post #AvDv3gDpzVpSlRh0fQ by [email protected] |
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i searched the error message and get a hit on a 1997 (!) post on experts-exchan… |
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Post #AvDv8JtaQckqy2Qu5Q by [email protected] |
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@foone oh wow |
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Post #AvDvB1laHwAzbryswC by [email protected] |
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@foone Aah, yes. One of the worst URLs ever devised. |
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Post #AvDvJziHI9tfqci5ya by [email protected] |
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@foone I think the only lucky thing is that it wasn’t you that was the origin… |
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Post #AvDvNqD0ZRtTWquzuy by [email protected] |
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@foone Hooray for evolutionary algorithms! |
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Post #AvDvQi4JIChV9QDZ4a by [email protected] |
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@Sempf @foone Weird way to spell "best" but okay. |
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Post #AvDvWnMQWsCPImar9U by [email protected] |
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http://www.cgoakley.org/prog/oleaut.html this page from 1997 has some info on h… |
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Post #AvDvfpBp6ASXa3wIN6 by [email protected] |
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@foone it's not just using regsvr32 to register some dll/ocx files? |
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Post #AvDvfpIYh7qZux5fs0 by [email protected] |
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@krishean no the problem is that the installer did that, but the installer is l… |
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Post #AvDvyeIZocGxIx4fQ0 by [email protected] |
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@foone woah, blast from the past, I remember reading that original article as a… |
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Post #AvDwI9f3QzcS4ltBo0 by [email protected] |
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@foone oh my dog |
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Post #AvDwuEzE5DcTb2U8XI by [email protected] |
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having to copy files off the NT4 VM using 4 virtual floppies because I've g… |
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Post #AvDx6rgs0bBJ6qv28G by [email protected] |
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@foone huhFrom the sound of it, OLE is some sort of precursor to DOM or ActiveX… |
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Post #AvDx6rnFcsHlQdu84u by [email protected] |
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@saphire yeah! OLE was a thing to let you embed objects from program X into pro… |
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Post #AvDxO0xGoguqlXldmC by [email protected] |
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@foone Not to be confused with, well... |
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Post #AvDxO140PeIt6Qv1H6 by [email protected] |
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@riley I already got one of those |
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Post #AvDxZ20lEIXDE9eZXc by [email protected] |
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@riley godspeed *salutes* |
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Post #AvDxdlyoGHfCxF0AJk by [email protected] |
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okay blindly importing the entire HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT over (along with a ton of D… |
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Post #AvDy7TOfutFA0aGJjE by [email protected] |
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@foone mildly horrifying phrases |
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Post #AvDzGEtBKHKBZbH7qa by [email protected] |
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gotta go manually change all these "ThreadingModel"="Apartment&q… |
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Post #AvDzRakKOyXyY0Xzmq by [email protected] |
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@foone Now slap some binary search what deletes half of the systems DLL's a… |
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Post #AvDzfGezsU9KJ2ZiD2 by [email protected] |
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@foone A lot of the time you just need to run regsvr32.exe correct.dll, and it&… |
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Post #AvE3LE2OJpRaCHDSKG by [email protected] |
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@foone ah, so additional registry keys to whatever regsvr32 creates, is there a… |
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Post #AvE3RXo5jIvPFRXZSa by [email protected] |
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@foone (in theory at least, in guessing the catch was?)Swear I've seen ment… |
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Post #AvE3qWKuKoy9vUndWi by [email protected] |
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@foone I'm working on mine. |
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Post #AvE428TIt9UrO2GVZg by [email protected] |
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@foone that is definitely a terrifying thing to do... but also, yeah, would lik… |
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Post #AvE4AMXWT3u9KoA4xM by [email protected] |
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@saphire @foone OLE/COM/OCX/ActiveX stuck around in a legacy form for a long ti… |
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Post #AvE8EqjUYIoNx49fvs by [email protected] |
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@foone do you have any debugger access?https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/window… |
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Post #AvEJQo4jMDVEgFzeu8 by [email protected] |
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@foone initially read this as "fucking olé!" |
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Post #AvEJmjn1yHQtlCAj8C by [email protected] |
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@astraluma the "modern" WinRT API is built in top of COM. pretty much… |
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Post #AvEXU32zXz4HLHcV8K by [email protected] |
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@foone 1. Open regedit2. Right click something (such as HKLM)3. Export, choose … |
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Post #AvEzSXAhN8QkuOI7A8 by [email protected] |
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@david the installer was last seen in 1998. |
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Post #AvF9h0uuZjkml3Ry2S by [email protected] |
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@foone Eww. Could maaaaybe try this approach to compare a clean install of NT4 … |
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Post #AvFBKOHDl32ISHE1tA by [email protected] |
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@david yeah. the one VM I have with it has dozens of programs installed and was… |
