VB Forum / Win API / August 2006

What I am trying to do is:
- From a VB form (click button) open a Powerpoint presentation;
- When that presentation is running and that windown/form active, if I press
a key then I close that Powerpoint presentation (maybe close the form,

is getting white. Why?
Is there a way to turn this off, or to make the entire menu line white always?
Thanks in advance.

   I'm developping an application that needs to detect whether you are
printing with a PDF printer or not.
Does anyone know how to accomplish that?
Thanks

I use a balloon tooltip to inform the user that some files have been
placed in a certain folder for him.
The maximum uTimeout is 30 seconds but I want the user to click the
balloon tip away to confirm.

When I use FindFirstFile("A:\\",something) and there is no disk in
floppy disk driver Windows XP shows me message box with warning. I do
not want to see this ( Windows 2000 does not show it ).  How can I turn
off this?

Using VB6:
I am trying to figure out how to retrieve the file path from a text box that
has had an (explorer) file dropped on it.
Can someone help me.

   I want to make a programa that recives  the path of a file as an
argument for example with a Drag & Drop, as if it is a command line argument.
  I know I have to use the Command Function, but I don´t know how to use
it. Any of you have an example or can explain it to me ?? Do ...

Is there a way to give rights on a folder to various users & groups using
API?
Thanks,
Ivan

        I am having some real player files ".rm" files present in LAN.
I am using the free ActiveX control provided by real player and able to
play the files present in the local system but not those present in
LAN.

Is it possible to hook registry reads and writes?  I'd like to write a
program that raises an event every time a reg read/write is made.
Can't really find anything about hooking these specific things in
google.

I am writing my app in VB .NET 2.0 and I wanna check if files are
Windows Protected files. I declare the API function as following:
   Declare Function SfcIsFileProtected Lib "sfc.dll" _
   (ByVal hRpc As Integer, ByVal ProtFileName As String) As Boolean

I would like to use the "winapi" folderbrowser function/dialog, for letting
a user selecting a folder, I have previsouly used delphi and in that I had a
windows API function called SHBrowseForFolder.
Does anyone have a sample on how to do this is VB

Dear frens,
I'm writing a VB project which will receive data from a device via
RS232. I have a few problems
1) First, I can use VB to capture the RS232 data but what i get is some

Sadly the IsUserAnAdmin can only be used on the very latest and updated win
XP platforms.
Can anyone give me some API orientated VB6 code to test if the user has
administrator rights

I am using the API function GetVolumeInformation in VB6 to check
whether a Removable Drive such as a USB drive works or not. If
removable drives are good, this function do well the job. However, if
removable drives are false, for example, no firmware embedded in thier