VB Forum / Win API / August 2008

The code below will correctly hide the Start Button in Windows XP, but it
fails to do so in Vista even though both versions of windows would seem to
use the same class names of "Shell_TrayWnd" and "Button".   Would someone
please show me how to hide the Start Button in Vista ...

I need to write a VB6 app that periodically sends a keystroke(F5 key) to
certain windows apps.
I know, I can use the Sendkeys statement for this but in my case I can't use
it because:

Hi all, I'm trying to remove 2 pictureboxes and do the work with memory
HDC's
This is what is causing my problem, whichever HDC is created first seems to
work fine

I have spent the last few days playing with the winMM Joystick library
and have come across a fairly major problem with joySetCapture().
When I call this for the first time it works correctly and I get the
notifications until I call joyReleaseCapture().

I have create a checkbox on a Message box window using CreateWindowEx API. I
wish to now change the background color of this check box since it always
seems to take the default background color. How can I achieve this? Thank you.

Well I asked this question in another list and got no responses so I
am going to try here.  What I am trying to do is determine the CD-ROM
drive letter associated with a HostAdpater, DeviceID and LUN.
I am using wnaspi32.dll to get a list of CD drives on the system.

I have one vb project and one compiled exe project. I have a problem setting
the parent of the compiled exe program to my vb project. I know my setparent
code works with notepad and other non vb program but it doest work for a
compiled vb project exe. Can someone give me some advice ...