I want to write a program starting before windows. For example partition magic (Starting before windows to make the new partitions), windows disk checker (checking the hard drive before system startup). Thank you.

Hi, I want to convert different character encodings like koi8-r to ASCII. Where can I find information about them? I can see there are many charsets - utf-8, windows-1251 etc.

Hi , I want to write a download manager like DAP or Flashget. Do you know what the principle is? I do not have any idea how downloads can be accelerated or resumed. Will I be able to use MFC for that or I have to write a class for handling the http connection? Thanks :)

Is Visual C++ 6 compatible with Vista?

How can I include version information in the compiled executable file?

I have read many articles about 'Busy Waiting' prevention in thread synchronization. I am wondering if busy waiting is really a big problem with processors available nowadays. What is your opinion - is busy waiting just a theoretical problem or it really affects system performance? Thank you.

If I want to use DirectX for writing commercial apps, do I have to pay Microsoft for that. Will it be OK if I buy only Visual Studio 6.

Hi all, Does anyone of you know how I can change the cursor type of the text editor in Visual Studio 2005? This tiny cursor drives me crazy :( Thank you.

Which C++ compiler is the best ? VC6, VC7, VC8? Thanks :)

Use &. void fun(int*&ptr) { } then in the main function fun(ptr) Is it working now?

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa364425(VS.85).aspx[^] http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc542456(VS.85).aspx[^]

Sometimes I prefer C++ with VCL :) Seems to have less bugs :)

What I can see is this is a method of a class, not C-type function. You cannot call a method of a class that way. Either you should create an instance of the class or you should declare the method as static.

I think this API should do the job - GetWindowThreadProcessId http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms633522(VS.85).aspx[^] Please, tell me if it works for you :)

What exactly do you need - Process Id or Thread Id?

Hello guys, I want to write an application able to detect system wide keyboard hooks installed on the machine. Is there any way to enumerate all system wide keyboard hooks? Thanks.

Is there any way to hide a process (not window) from the windows task manager?

Nice Guyz go to heaven, Bad guyz go wherever they want.

Nice :laugh:

Hi, I once saw in a real piece of code the following fragment! Nice name, don't you think? { boolean e0x0301=false; . . . if (!e0x0301) { ... } }

How can I send messages from one thread to another? I want to avoid busy/wait loops. Thank you.