How about other common controls like listcontrol, treecontrol? Can I access the tree control in windows explorer through my program? Thanks all!!

Look up the RegSaveKey() function.

It is an ATL component that fire events. I have asked their vb and vc++ examples on how to use the component.

If you mean the Taskbar, then call SHAppBarMessage() with the message ABM_GETTASKBARPOS. It sounds like you want to know the area of the desktop not covered by the Taskbar and other app bars. If that's so, then just call SystemParametersInfo(SPI_GETWORKAREA).

Try with these two articles: Free size and extended styles in CPropertySheets CResizableSheet and CResizablePage Paolo.

You can draw the row in grey text to simulate disabling it. See my tutorial on custom draw if you need directions on using custom draw. As for disabling the checkbox, I think you can do it by handling LVN_ITEMCHANGING, and if the item's state icon (which is how the checkboxes are implemented internally) is about to change, you disallow the change. You may also need to handle LVN_KEYDOWN and watch for the space bar, because that will also change the state of a checkbox.

Mike's right - though sometimes you may want to get the dir in which your app (or another) resides, in order to _make_ that the working dir (we don't always have a choice as to how our apps are invoked via shortcuts etc.). GetModuleFileName will return the full path to the location of the exe or dll, and you can go from there.

See this URL http://codeguru.earthweb.com/controls/hyperlink.shtml or You can create new class, derived from CStatic. OlegO