VB Forum / Win API / October 2005

I would like to develop a VB program to get a machine's local drives'
capacities and their free hard disk space.
Are there any APIs to do so ?
If yes, please tell me how to get them, thanks a lot.

How does one locate the handle to "Open" desktop applications?
I tried to enumerate all open windows but it returned dozens of hidden
programs such as McAffee, Taskbar and so on.  I just want to list open user
applications which have an actual window visible on the desktop.

Software piracy! Cracked serial numbers! Thousands of commercial
products are posted on the warez sites and become available to all
every day! Companies lose millions of dollars every year to software
piracy, and faulty protection programs.  Shareware developers look for

Is ther an api I can use to monitor CPU temp of a server running W2k3
standard?
Thanks,
SW

There is a DLL file which contains a function as below. It will return me
the device name i.e pcDevName
ULONG MTMICRGetDevice (
DWORD dwDeviceContext,

I'm using Access 2002 and I need to check my printers locally and across
the network.  I need to see if the printers are actually connected, with
paper and ready to print.  Any ideas on how to do this?
Thanks

Ok what I would like to do is have a function which can take either an
array of udts or a single udt as a parameter (see example code below).
Option Explicit
Private Type PointAPI

when I am dialing to server I am getting connected and getting ping
reply reply from server too but when I do a ftp to server I am getting
message as in subject Please help me to sort this.
Thanks in advance

I'm using GetLocleInfo API in my application. When it is run on Chinese
OS, locale set to Chinese - HongKong and time format set to tt hh:mm:ss
and AM/PM format is get thru the API call,
GetLocaleInfo(LngsysLcid, LOCALE_S1159, strbuffer, 99)

Could you please tell me how I can change the way that MCI API use to
store a temp file of wave before saving it?
I use mciSendCommand function, but I did not found any parameter to set
it.

Subject pretty much says it, I have a chord (drawn with API Chord
function) that I need to be able to rotate about the X axis.  My
current rotation function works very well for other shapes (rectagles,
lines, etc.) but because of the way the coords are specified for a

I've got the following code for creating a multipage TIF file from a number
of single page TIF files.  It seems to work very well but I'm concerned that
it works by converting the TIF to a bitmap and back again.  Surely some
quality is lost in the conversion???  Has anyone got a ...

while OT, I am asking this here because this ng seems to be
the most knowledgable about system internals.
I am running a script stored on a diskette (remember them?).
The first time I run the script, I hear the diskette drive

Pardon me if this post has wrong place!
I have a sharing file application use VB6.0 and Microsoft Access 2000. I
also use a Access Point to connect server and client but my Access Point
can't process packet have large size in a long time. The application always

i am using Xp VB6
how to delete the value of a subkey in registry
RegDeleteValue is deleting the whole key just as RegDeleteKey
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