Hi: How do I change the (typical) gray background color of a dialog? Thanks, Harald

Hi, How can I force the mouse pointer to move / jump to a position on the screen? (I'm using C++). Peter

Is there a windows API that I can use to kill a process if I know only the name of the process as it appears in the Windows 2000 Task Manager? Here's why I'm asking ... I run Outlook 2000 on W2k. ...

Hi everybody. I've got a problem and I'm completely lost. I'm trying to set a WH_GETMESSAGE hook in all the threads of a particular process. So, I use the ToolHelp32 funcions Thread32First and...

Hi, I want to check whether a filename that is entered is valid or not. I can check "manually" by looking for disallowed characters. But for all I know, this group of characters may change in...

I use VB to create user forms. After collecting user inputs, the data is passed onto a program written in C (invoked by the API CreateProcess). The C program displays a dialog box showing the...

I have loaded my DLL into Explorer's address space with SHLoadInProc and want to know how I can close my app (DLL) so it gets unloaded.

When I subclass the taskbar in a DLL that I load into Explorer's address space it always start using almost 100 % of CPU!! WTF?? Here is all my code fo the DLL: LRESULT APIENTRY...

I was trying to implement an Internet Explorer style menu bar. Everything went fine except the looking of the menu bar when themes applied in Windows XP. Since the menu bar is created using a...

I'm writing a program that starts other programs (using CreateProcess) and will later want to shut them down. These apps I'm starting will be things like Internet Explorer so I can't modify...

Hey, I have a window with a button in it. The window reacts to key presses but when I press the button within the window once the key presses dont trigger an event anymore. What am I...

I'm wondering how to fill the LPARAM argument when sending an TB_SETWINDOWTHEME message to a toolbar. The documentation said it should be a "Pointer to a Unicode string that contains the...

Hey, I have two text controls, one which holds the number of squares that are occupied in a grid and one which holds the percentage of how many squares in the grid are occupied. These two obviously...

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I compile a program and there are no compiling errors....but when i go to build the program or execute it, i get the following...

I've got a win32 app that reads registry values to determine if there is an uninstall for a particular class of programs. It looks...

I am thinking of asking this question some time ago, but I don't know where to ask. I decide to send it here because I think people here who work with the core technology of computer are the most...

Hello I have written a COM control which sends out a notification to user on an LVN_INSERTITEM message. However, I now realise that on receiving this windows message it is too early to find out...

I've got a Win32 app that needs to determine if certain software packages are installed or not. We do this by looking in the...

Hi everyone, Does anyone know why the same registered message might get handled twice? I verified with traces and Spy++ that we are only posting the message once, but for some reason the handler for...