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| System Services Updated Sunday April 08, 2001 |
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| Application vb6 vb5 vb4-32 |
Killing the Form Close
Menu and 'X' Button Prevent users from attempting to close an application by disabling the system menu options. July 08.98 Killing Any Form's Close Menu and 'X' Button -
SDI, MDIParent or MDIChild |
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| Date & Time vb6 vb5 |
Changing the
System Long and Short Date Formats with SetLocaleInfo Now assure that systems always have the desired short and long date formats set. Detecting and Notifying Changes to the
System Date/Time Determining Daylight Saving Time with
GetTimeZoneInformation Determining Current, Standard and Daylight
Bias Determining a Locale's Standard and
Daylight Time Zone Names Obtaining the Dates for Daylight and
Standard Time Changes Obtaining a User's Regional Locale
Date Settings with EnumDateFormats Obtaining a User's Regional Locale
Time Settings with EnumTimeFormats Obtaining a User's System
Calendar Information Retrieving a User's Regional Locale Date
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| Display & Screen vb6 vb5 vb4-32
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Changing
the Display Resolution from Visual Basic Use this routine to change the current screen resolution or depth. Sep 01.98 vb6, vb5 only Enumerating the Available Display
Resolutions How to Detect the Current System Screen Font How to Determine the Available Screen 'Real
Estate' How to Determine TaskBar Positions Using
SHAppBarMessage How to Determine Windows Startup Mode Obtaining the Current Display Settings Retrieving Non-Client Area Font
Info using SystemParametersInfo |
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| Hardware vb6 vb5 vb4-32 |
Using DeviceIOControl
to Obtain Physical Drive Information Retrieve low-level physical disk information on NT/2000. How to lock and unlock removable media on NT/2000 systems. How to eject and load any removable media on NT/2000 systems. Determines whether the drive specified contains media on NT/2000 systems. |
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| Keyboard vb6 vb5 vb4-32
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Activating CapsLock and
NumLock on Win9x Turn CapsLock or NumLock on or off on Windows 9x using keybd_event. Activating CapsLock, NumLock, ScrollLock and
PrintScreen on NT/2000 How to Manipulate the Desktop Using keybd_event Obtaining the Keyboard Locale Identifier |
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| Locales vb6 vb5 |
Enumerating
the Installed and Supported System Locales Retrieve the codepage language names and abbreviations using the EnumSystemLocales callback. Nov 09.99 Obtaining a User's Regional Locale
Date Settings with EnumDateFormats Obtaining a User's Regional Locale
Time Settings with EnumTimeFormats Retrieving a User's Regional Locale Country
Settings Retrieving a User's Regional Locale Currency
Settings Retrieving a User's Regional Locale Date
Settings Retrieving a User's Regional Locale Numeric
Settings |
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| Media vb6 vb5 vb4-32
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Determining
if a Floppy Drive is Ready Four wrapper routines that each determine if a removable drive is ready. Ejecting Media from a CDROM How to lock and unlock removable media on NT/2000 systems. How to eject and load any removable media on NT/2000 systems. Determines whether the drive specified contains media on NT/2000 systems. |
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| Memory & Resources vb6 vb5 |
Displaying Memory
Information Under Win32 The method to obtain system memory information for 32-bit Windows. Obtaining the System Processor Information Obtaining Windows' Version Information Obtaining Windows System Directories |
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| Printers & Ports vb6 vb5 vb4-32 |
Adding and Deleting
Application-Defined Ports Using AddPort and AddPortEx APIs. Oct 03.99 Changing the Default Printer on Windows NT/2000 Enumerating Local and Network Printers Enumerating Windows' Available Ports |
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| Recycle Bin vb6 vb5 vb4-32 |
How to
Receive Shell Change Notifications Track additions, deletions and changes to the physical and virtual file system. (VB5/6 only) Sep 13.98 Recycle Bin Management Utilizing Windows Recycle Bin Utilizing Windows SHFileOperation API,
Advanced |
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| System vb6 vb5 vb4-32 |
Adding Even More
Control Panel and Shell32 Functions to a VB Application Jun
19.99 The rundll32 statements to invoke a myriad of control panel and Windows shell features from your VB app. (104k) Determining the Name of the Executable
Associated with a Specific File Obtaining the Debugging Information for an
Image Using MapDebugInformation Obtaining the hWnd of an Application Started with
Shell() Obtaining the Path and Filename
of the Default Browser Retrieving MS ODBC Driver Information Retrieving System Messages with FormatMessage Sending System Messages using
NetMessageBufferSend The Win32 Rundll and Rundll32 Interface Using DeviceIOControl to Obtain Physical
Drive Information Using Win32's MessageBoxEx API |
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| Toolhelp vb6 vb5 vb4-32 |
Obtaining a List
of Running Processes Using the Toolhelp APIs of Win95, this code creates a listbox of the currently running processes. Mar 3.97 |
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| Version Info vb6 vb5 vb4-32 |
Determining the
Cipher Strength of Internet Explorer Code to determine whether the current security strength of Internet Explorer is 40- or 128-bit. Nov 27.99 Obtaining Internet Explorer's Version Retrieving MS ODBC Driver Information |
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| Windows vb6 vb5 |
Enumerating
Windows Using Callbacks Another Enumxxx API, this one enumerates system windows using AddressOf. Jun 17.98 EnumWindows and EnumChildWindows
Callbacks |
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| Window Class & Title vb6 vb5 vb4-32 |
How to Find
Applications Matching a Specific Class or Window Title Code to list all active windows containing either the Class name or Window title specified, including only partial names. Jun 22.98 Win32 Window Title and Class Name Demo |
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