Is there a simple, reliable way to force the hard drive on from within a program? The problem is slow access after power management has shut it down. Obviously, I could just read from a file... as...

I have a tristate check box.The default behavour of tristate check box in windows is that, the grayed check box will become unchecked after click on grayed check box. But i want , the grayed check...

HI, I want to get Command Line arguments of a remote system process using Windows SDK. If you know how to get it, please let me know. I am able to get Command Line arguments of a running process...

"Michael Butscher" <mbutscher@gmx.de> wrote in message news:4509a5e4$0$26961$9b4e6d93@newsspool4.arcor-online.net It certainly contains docs. You can order it on CD for the cost of shipping and...

ajcrm125 wrote: If rectangle can't handle the text, your text will be clipped (unless DT_NOCLIP is specified). GetClientRect() gives you the client area of the window, but you should rather choose...

Ivan Vecerina wrote: I have once (years ago) implemented superclassed edit control, which has among few other things such feature that you could conjugate one editbox with another so when you type...

rokotov@ukr.net wrote: It's difficult to say based on this info alone, but the most obvious conclusion is a NULL pointer based on the fault location and register content. At the point of the...

The encrypted data is not a string - it's an array of bytes which may contain null characters, but won't have a null terminator, so you can't treat it as a null terminated string. Additionally you...

Charles Calvert <cbciv@yahoo.com> wrote: That did it :) Even tho those two pixels were not the border, one pixel was! And of course the other one at the bottom. Not sure why I did not think of that...

On 23 Jul 2006 07:58:28 -0700, "Zaxon" <google.com@zaxon.e4ward.com> wrote in <1153666708.863625.193560@b28g2000cwb.googlegroups.com>: I'm late to the party, I know, but I can't see any reason why...

nleahcim@gmail.com wrote: If ReadFile() returns without error then you should read and process the data immediately (it means the data was already waiting in an input buffer, and the IO_PENDING...

I have a desktop toolbar (Windows XP Pro) on which I would like the items sorted. I would like to create a program that will sort these items. I have worked in VBA, VBScript, and some VB.Net. I...

It looks like the problem is that I'm using XP 64 and you can't use these functions for spying on this OS. I wonder what the equivilant in 64 is. dcbrien@gmail.com wrote:

Hi msdn says that when a paste is performed from Explorer and cut is performed by an application, the application should stay in stand by listening for a notify through clipboard to know if explorer...

Hmm, usually you have to catch drag-drop operations as WM_DROP(?) message so you can write a code to send the message and its parameters from the topmost window to the underlying window. "Lele"...

Great links (especially the first one!) Thanks! -Adam Ahmed Samieh wrote:

I have a screen saver after the screen saver exited i want to launch a some test.exe in windows XP. I have tried it this ways 1. I wrote one saver.exe it in c# . it first launchs the...

Hi, I'm developing a NT Service using .NET 2.0, its a multithreaded TCP server, this service will handle connections from many enterprise applications. The challenge is to avoid a...

My shutdown code takes about 5 seconds. That's not too long, I think. My theory is that Windows looks at my application and sees that the main thread has no window or event loop and thinks therefore...

Does anyone know if support for legacy VDDs has been dropped from Vista. I've hunted everywhere but they seem to have been removed from the MSDN documentation. We have a legacy application that uses...