I've looked and I can't find a clear answer to the following in MSDN or in my favorite resource, Simon's _Windows 2000 API SuperBible_. How are GDI objects (pens, brushes, etc.) managed in a...

Hi, I'm having a problem with a piece of code which is designed to pipe the stdout of a console program to its parent process. The problem is that, while I can create my pipe ok, spawn a new process...

Hi all, How can i add directory list in a list box from a Drive. I tried these ways, but got stalled. Could anyone help me..Please ? SendMessage(hwndCB, CB_GETLBTEXT, (WPARAM) 0,...

How can I delete all print jobs that have been sent to a particular printer using API function calls?

I have a code I am using to restore a file 1.dat that was created using RegSaveKey. I keeping getting an error with Setting privilages and RegRestoreKey. Please help. void RestoreRegFile() { DWORD...

Hi I am trying to find the process ID and path of the 'grand-parent' of my application (that is: the application that launched the application that launched my program) on Windows. I have found the...

Hi, is there a win32 call (either from debuggers point of view or otherwise) to enumerate all threads in a process at a given instance of time. kutty

hi! I deleted the file svohost.exe in the windows\system32 folder as I suspected it of performing some virus activity. Now the computer works fine .. though there is an error which comes up after...

I've been trying with limited success to use ntdll.dll from user-mode apps. I have written code that calls NtQuerySystemInformation in order to get the handle list. I used to have an automatically...

Why can't I set a clipping region, draw in the region, set a new clipping region, and then draw in that region (all of this happening in WM_PAINT)? It seems like only the last region gets painted. ...

Hi all, I want to test GetCurrentDirectoryW for path longer than MAX_PATH. So I created a directory with a sub directory. Either directory name is 200 characters. And I ran GetCurrentDirectoryW from...

Windows XP SP1, VC++ 6.0, Platform SDK Hi all, I want to use PDH to enum processes on local machine. And I wrote the following function. void GetProcesses(void) { CHAR CounterList;

Hi I am trying to post 4000 lines of text in an edit control but i get only blank after 500 lines. I believe the problem is in the edit control because i am using reserve in the string to holding...

I am working on a large application in C++ with about 50 projects. I have added a manifest into the resources of my startup project and in its .rc file have inserted the...

I am reading the Platform SDK documentation and see this: -------------------------------------------------------------- GetThreadId The GetThreadId function retrieves the thread identifier of...

This is probably a basic question: //######################################################################### // testdll.cpp // extern function used in dll, defined in an external static...

I wrote a CDialog based MFC app with Visual Studio 6.0 that that I have been running from an Administrator account under win XP. MyApp is manually installed into c:\MyApp\, and MyApp creates and...

Hello all, We have around 20 clients writing to a file in the Server. We use Win2k Prof/Server. We have been using mutexes as a synchronization object without relazing that mutex objects cannot be...

Hi! I need to set the windows date/time from my program. I've searched the docs, but I was only able to find functions for getting the current date/time... can someone direct me,...

Hi, I am using ShellExecute to launch an application and I would like to detect if the returned HINSTANCE has ended or not. Simply checking for hInstance==NULL does not work. What would be ideal...