As the question title might suggest, I would very much like to know of the way to check the ntfs permissions of the given file or folder (hint: those are the ones you see in the "security" tab). Basically, what I need is to take a path to a file or directory (on a local machine, or, preferrably, on a share on a remote machine) and get th...
I have a program consisting of a server and a client processes. Both run on Windows systems - Windows 2000 or later versions. The two processes can run on the same machine or on two different machines. How can the client determine if it is run on the same machine as the server? If the server is not running the client can't work anyway a...
How can I detect if a given window has an hardware overlay surface? (like MediaPlayer, WinDVD, VLC,...) ...
Hi, I'm fixing a bug with Windows Vista 64 bits of a 32bit application, when I try to use the function Wow64DisableWow64FsRedirection(...) the compiler says 'undeclared identifier...'. I'm including the Windows.h header file and set _WIN32_WINNT to 0x0501. Any ideas? Thanks. EDIT: We're using MS Visual Studio 2003 ...
I have a set of Win32 applications that share information using a shared memory segment created with CreateFileMapping() and MapViewOfFile(). One of the applications is a system service; the remainder are started by the logged-in user. On Windows XP, there was no problem. We named our segments “Global\Something” and all was well. The a...
I get an exception from .net process that is using interop call to win32 api function. I have a debugger attached and I want to see the value of LastError. Is it possible to see the value of LastError from Visual Studio debugger? Two notes: The process that throws the exception is not mine and I can't modify its source code to get the...
Assume I have access to a SMB server at IP 1.2.3.4, how can I determine the list of available shares? Windows Explorer can do it when I enter a UNC path \\1.2.3.4\ - but command prompt "dir \\1.2.3.4\" fails! I've tried the usual FindFirstFile/FindNext calls - which I use successfully to read the files and directories on each share, bu...
How does one retrieve a network share comment in Windows ? ...
I'm trying to find a basic example, tutorial, or blog post on how to write a printer port monitor. I downloaded the Windows DDK and dug through localmon, but it appears that this sample is much more complex than just the nuts and bolts basics and from my understanding it is a bit different than an OEM port monitor because of how it hand...
Friends, How to lock/unlock(software based) removable disk/drives in VB6? I need to know any specific win32 routines are there for this purpose? ...
Is there an api in windows that retrieves the server name from a UNC path ? (\\server\share) Or do i need to make my own ? I found PathStripToRoot but it doesn't do the trick. ...
I have a DLL that is written in C++ and I want to suppress the name mangling for a few exported methods. The methods are global and are not members of any class. Is there a way to achieve this? BTW: I'm using VS2008. ...
It's very easy to force a taskbar icon to display a balloon tooltip: all I need to do is set the NIF_INFO flag when calling Shell_NotifyIcon( NIM_MODIFY, ... ), and the balloon appears, no problem. Now, I want to be able to hide the balloon when I no longer need it, as well, but I can't find a way to do that. I tried clearing the NIF_IN...
I need to make sure that explorer.exe runs as a system shell. What I need to do is: Overwrite the current shell (Winlogon\Shell) with explorer.exe Run explorer.exe (as shell) Overwrite the current shell with my own shell. Between the last two steps is a race: If I overwrite the current shell with my own shell too quickly, only "My ...
How do I set a name to a Win32 thread. I did'nt find any Win32 API to achieve the same. Basically I want to add the Thread Name in the Log file. Is TLS (Thread Local Storage) the only way to do it? ...
I want to get the free space on a compressed disk to show it to a end user. I'm using C++, MFC on Windows 2000 and later. The Windows API offers the GetDiskFreeSpaceEx() function. However, this function seems to return the "uncompressed" sized of the data. This cause me some problem. For example : - Disk size is 100 GB - Data size is...
not from the ease of use, but from the performance point of view. are MFC message maps faster than a typical message pump? ...
I have to convert the encoding of a string output of a VB6 application to a specific encoding. The problem is, I don't know the encoding of the string, because of that: According to the VB6 documentation when accessing certain API functions the internal Unicode strings are converted to ANSI strings using the default codepage of Wind...
Hi, We are using a third part library to render 3d. In this library there is a "memory tracker" functionality that keeps track of all memory the library has allocated and freed during execution. This is a nice feature, since it helps by determining e.g. memory leaks. By calling a certain function in this library a log file is generated...
Hi guys, I am trying to build a desktop app. The biggest requirement is that it should be as miniscule as possible. For Windows users, is it better to build it in .NET or WinAPI? I am not from software background so pardon me if this is a non-sensical question, but I have heard that with .NET, there is a chance that some Windows users ma...