Hello everybody my problem is related to internet explorer. By default internet explorer can access my computer and all drive to save, download, open files. i want to restrict this access...

Hi I am trying to draw opaque polygons in layered windows. My problem is that they always end up translucent. I have created a demo app that will draw opaque lines, filled ellipses, text, etc. but...

Hi, I'm using WMI to read out information from a remote PC but I cannot seem to find the right class to find which user is logged in to that PC. When I use Win32_ComputerSystem I get a value for the...

Hi, I'm using WMI in a Visual Basic application to read out information from a remote PC but I cannot seem to find the right class to find which user is logged in to that PC. When I use...

hi i want to make a software using Win32 API's which will add support in PC for specific language. Like when in Windows XP/2000 we want to add specific language it asks for OS CD and install the...

Hi, I have a program which consists of a exe and a dll (there are some additional static librarys). Well, everything is ok - until I press F5 to start the app. Visual C++ then will ALWAYS recompile...

Hi, I'm looking for a way to (programatically) stop Windows from installing new USB devices during uninstallation (a registry cleanup) of previously installed instances of the same device -OR- a way...

When I run a service in debug mode everything is fine, it find the files it needs in the directory it is started in, but when I run it as true service, obviously %SystemRoot%/System32 is the working...

Hi all, Under Linux, a person can run at the commandline "sync" to flush all buffers to disk. Also inside the Linux kernel there is an equivalent. But does Win32 have a "sync" that I can execute...

Hi all, Is there a way to get a list of all the shared memory names (setup by OpenFileMapping & MapViewOfFile) of all applications running under windows? Thanks!

Hello, I tried to use the SCROLLBARINFO ( VC ++ 6) and got the following error : C2065: 'SCROLLBARINFO' : undeclared identifier the header <windows.h> is included (as said in the documentation)...

Hello, I've developed numerous utility programs that can be configured to run automatically on startup and place themselves in an icon on the taskbar. My code to do this looks something like the...

Does anyone have any suggestions on how to detect an idle desktop (no mouse movement, keyboard press) from an XP windows service? If I use GetLastInputInfo() it reports the time for the desktop the...

Visual Studio .NET 2003 lets additional me specify additional directories for include and library files (Tools >> Options >> Projects >> VC++ Directories). Can anyone tell me where these paths are...

Hi, Im wondering if there is any limitation on how many semaphores you can have active in an application ? Normally i initiate my Createsemaphore: HANDLE CreateSemaphore(

What exactly does Zone Alarm do? If I install it, how can I be sure it doesn't have any backdoors or trojans or keystroke loggers in it? What I would rather do is learn how to write such programs...

Hi, I've spent a few hours trawling around the internet on this one. It sounds stupid but I can't print a file in Landscape mode from a program without any dialog boxes (i.e. No call to...

Hi Folks Developing on Win2k, VC6, WIN32, no MFC. I have a ownerdraw listbox with different height items, each a multiline edit box with alternating light green and white backgrounds. When I...

Is it possible to create links in Windows, which behave similar to Unix/Linux links? That is, they are used like files, but point at another physical file in the file system. If I've understood...

My problem is that I need to track how much CPU utilization that a particular process ( or group of processes and related threads ) is using. The natural solution is to place each group of...