If you want to do remote shutdown, you need Admin privileges on the remote machine to do it. There is no way around it, for obvious reasons. A guide to posting questions on CodeProject[^] Dave Kreskowiak Microsoft MVP Visual Developer - Visual Basic      2006, 2007, 2008 But no longer in 2009...

Hi Amer Rehman; If you are using .Net Framework 2.0 or higher you can use the Control.ControlCollection.Find Method to find a control. The second parameter states to search all child controls as well as shown in the code snippet below. Private Function CheckControl(ByVal ctrlName As String) As Boolean Dim blnResult As Boolean = False If (Me.Controls.Find(ctrlName, True).Length > 0) Then blnResult = True End If Return blnResult End Function Fernando

You cannot create controls on a seperate thread. However, your thread code can Invoke a method on the UI thread that creates the controls for it. A guide to posting questions on CodeProject[^] Dave Kreskowiak Microsoft MVP Visual Developer - Visual Basic      2006, 2007, 2008

Don't ask the same question in the same day. Your original post was only 10 hours old. On top of what Luc said, you may also have to check your code to see if your changing the X and/or Y locations appropriately. It may be creating the new TextBoxs (a very inefficient design I might add!) and placing them all in the same location, under the first TextBox that was created. A guide to posting questions on CodeProject[^] Dave Kreskowiak Microsoft MVP Visual Developer - Visual Basic      2006, 2007, 2008

It doesn't look like your changing the X and/or Y position, causing each textbox to be positioned directly under the last textbox that was added. A guide to posting questions on CodeProject[^] Dave Kreskowiak Microsoft MVP Visual Developer - Visual Basic      2006, 2007, 2008

If they all ran an app you write, you could use UDP. The best way to accelerate a Macintosh is at 9.8m/sec² - Marcus Dolengo

Dear Mr. Alan After replying your first mail, I checked the code and found that I was maistaken. I did'nt check the Vb Documentation before writing code.Perhaps the solution to my problem is by using some API call. There is no managed way in VB 2003 to get all the open window. Or if there is, I'm not aware of it. And I'm using IE version 6. Thanks Amer reman

Open Active Directory Users and Computers. In the appropriate OU create a new Group Policy named after the purpose. If you don't have an appropriate OU, create one. Making policies that affect everything is usually bad practice as far as I'm concerned. Edit the new policy. Under 'User Configuration - Administrative Templates - Control Panel - Display' you can 'Prevent Changing Wall Paper'. When you're at it you can also 'Hide the Desktop Tab'. Under 'User Configuration - Administrative Templates - Desktop - Active Desktop' you can also 'Disable Active Desktop' if performance is an issue.

You have two choices. You can either "do the math", or you can read the entire file record-by-record and count them. There's no other way to do it. A guide to posting questions on CodeProject[^] Dave Kreskowiak Microsoft MVP Visual Developer - Visual Basic      2006, 2007

please try following code for increase font size (Label) Me.Label1.Font = New System.Drawing.Font("arial", 11.25!, System.Drawing.FontStyle.Regular, System.Drawing.GraphicsUnit.Point, CType(0, Byte)) Me.Label1.Size = New System.Drawing.Size(208, 24) Me.Label1.Text = "Label Font Size Change" mitesh

Hi Reman, What you are trying to do is reasonably clear, however... Amer Rehman wrote: But this does not work. is not. How does it not work? Is an error thrown, or what? If so, at what point in this code? etc? Johan My advice is free, and you may get what you paid for.

Create a new instance of a class passing parameters. Create a new thread pointed at the sub in that class that does the work. Name and start the thread. If you want you can wait till the thread finishes(Join) and then dispose of the instance of the class. Here is a code snippet. SQL.B.setDay = New SQL.clsSetUpAnyDay(Now.Date) 'new class thdWorker = New Thread(AddressOf SQL.B.setDay.DoIt)'new thread thdWorker.Name = "setDay" 'name it thdWorker.Start() 'start thdWorker.Join 'wait till it finishes SQL.B.setDay = Nothing 'dispose Hope that helps. RCarey RCarey

Really?? I haven't done any threading in quite a while. I've forgotten a bunch... I thought ThreadStart didn't take an argument, but the 2.0 ParameterizedThreadStart took an Object. Hmmm... where's my MSDN... :confused: A guide to posting questions on CodeProject[^] Dave Kreskowiak Microsoft MVP Visual Developer - Visual Basic      2006, 2007

Cast sender to a Button. Dim btn As Button = DirectCast(sender, Button) A guide to posting questions on CodeProject[^] Dave Kreskowiak Microsoft MVP Visual Developer - Visual Basic      2006, 2007

Adding to what kubben said, you can use the same handler for all buttons, then inside that handler use the first argument "sender", cast it to Button and you can read the button's name, or whatever you want to access. :) Luc Pattyn [Forum Guidelines] [My Articles] this weeks tips: - make Visual display line numbers: Tools/Options/TextEditor/... - show exceptions with ToString() to see all information - before you ask a question here, search CodeProject, then Google

Hmmmm thats a nice solution :) I'm currently working on Web Service using IPC remoting for talking with its front end. It would'nt take much more for it to monitor and restart the front end. It's also nice how in the future it should be relativly easy to switch over to tcp remoting and have a central management app :D

There is a good article here on CodeProject at http://www.codeproject.com/csharp/prettygoodsplashscreen.asp on creating a splash screen. I have used it in past applications. Here are some of my articles. Hope this helps! Joseph Guadagno http://www.josephguadagno.net