VB Forum / Win API / March 2006

I implemented the Tracer utiltity from vbaccelerator into my client/server
app.
My app is based on:
a) client (standard.exe)

What am I doing wrong?
I've got a Word COM add-in where I'm trying to disable all Word windows
while the main add-in form is showing.  I can disable Word and get the form
to show and do what it's supposed to, but at the end I can't get Word

My friend has developed an application in VB6,Access2000 and Crystal
Report. Now when he tried to create a package it was giving  following
error :
Unexpected Error Number 80010108 has occured:Automation Error The

i would like to change the color of a form in VB 6.0. Is there any WIN
API function which gets the form handle and changes the color of the
form. I do not want to change the system color. I just want the give
user a option to choose the color of the application.

I'm looking for a way to search for part of a computer name on my
network in VB6. I want to be able to type in part of the name, have the
program search the network, then return computers that have partial
matches to my query. I know this is done using "net view" becuase I

Does anyone have any current VB6 code that interafaces with the
Info-zip or 7zip DLLs? I'm trying to get around writing my own code for
enumerating zip files, but if a DLL could do it for me that would be
even better.

i have to delete some keys on
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\system\controlset001\enum\root. but i dont have
access to delete those KEYS even if i am logged in as an administrator.
the keys are known to be added by some freewares i installed.

please help me,
I am looking for the api call code to get the hard disk serial number which
is not the phisical one. i am looking for the serial of the producer which
is unique and cannot be changed.

      I want to send huge chunks of data (rows from a database) from
c++ to vb. I thought of passing it from c++ to a microsoft heriarchial
flex grid or any other grid in vb by using the SendMessage function.
But i can't find any "UINT Msg" for the grid. Please let me know of

We have a problem using the GetPrinter API function (winspool.drv) on Windows
XP machine and network printer.
When reading the value of the LOCAL printers, both Windows2000 and WindowsXP
return the real number of jobs in the queue but when reading that value of

The link below is to an article that demonstrates "how to enumerate volumes
and mount points".
1. Is there a VB equivalent example?
2. Alas, certain of the APIs used require at least Win 2000. Can the same

I'm having a tricky thing with recording wave audio.
I set-up a recording like this:
Code:
i = mciSendString("open new type waveaudio alias capture", 0&, 0, 0)

  Can you please let me know the code in VB.Net for how to use  
GetSystemMetrics(SM_REMOTESESSION) to know if the application is running on
Terminal Server or on local machine.
Thanks

I've an application that is using ftp to upload scripts to my unix server,
in order to execute them I have to telnet the server and execute chmod 755 on
the script but I'm looking for a way to do this from mu vb app.
Does any one has an idea how to do it, just like some ftp ...

I'm trying to use the MS KB article
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/145679/en-us to edit/create the
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE keys of the registry. I can't get it to work though. Can
anyone help me out. I'm trying to create a new String value called "Updated"