How to Run the OnScreenKeyboard
There are lots of questions on the Internt how to run the OnScreen Keyboard on a Windows 64 System from a 32bit Process. Some time ago, I investigated it but due to a lack of time I didn’t finish it....
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Is File In Use
In a thread on DelphiPraxis there was a question that comes up several times a year. However, this time I could remember that there is actually an COM API that can solve the problem. The question was...
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Using Windows 7 Taskbar-features via components
Windows 7 gave us some nice and useful little eye-catchers in the taskbar. Those are available using the Windows shell interfaces ITaskbarList3 and ITaskbarList4. But alas, how can a Delphi developer...
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This article is about how to retrieve the owner of a file. If you are experienced with some of the WinAPI security function this can be pretty easy. There are some problems that needs to be addressed...
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JWSCL and FreeAndNil Second Attempt
In my last article “Jwscl and FreeAndNil” there were some great comments on the source design. Oliver told me to use a guarded memory page so the memory is always invalid. With his information I wrote...
View ArticleVersion Checking for Delphi (2nd Update)
There is an interesting article about checking the version of the operating system. If you are too lazy to read it then just remember this: Do not check it at all! Well, I changed my mind. You should...
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Winlogon Notification Package
What is that? MSDN say’s: A Winlogon Notification Package is a DLL that exports functions that handle Winlogon events. For example, when a user logs onto the system, Winlogon calls each notification...
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You cannot impersonate a pipe until you have read from it. Even a write call doesn’t work. So a service has to wait for a dummy client write call until it can check the client’s token. The following...
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A call to CreateProcessAsUser will fail with ERROR_INVALID_PARAMETER if your new process belongs to another session and you allowed inheritance of handles. In this case you have to set parameter...
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The following topics you can choose to research. Each topic has several possible options you can work on. The options are Library: Creating Windows headers for JEDI Windows API or (wrapper) classes for...
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