file monitoring: Disk Monitor[^] registry monitoring: Process Monitor[^] Decrease the belief in God, and you increase the numbers of those who wish to play at being God by being “society’s supervisors,” who deny the existence of divine standards, but are very serious about imposing their own standards on society.-Neal A. Maxwell You must accept 1 of 2 basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe or we are not alone. Either way, the implications are staggering!-Wernher von Braun

DisableProcessWindowsGhosting() is supported with XP SP1 and later. If your app must support older Windows versions, you must check the version. You can use late binding by getting the function address with GetProcAddress()[^]: typedef void (WINAPI* LPFN_DisableProcessWindowsGhosting)(); HINSTANCE hInst = ::GetModuleHandle(_T("User32")); if (hInst) { LPFN_DisableProcessWindowsGhosting lpfnFunc = (LPFN_DisableProcessWindowsGhosting)::GetProcAddress(hInst, ""); if (lpfnFunc) lpfnFunc(); else TRACE("DisableProcessWindowsGhosting() is not supported\n"); } This will also solve your problem regarding the old SDK header files.

I briefly talk about this in this article. "One man's wage rise is another man's price increase." - Harold Wilson "Fireproof doesn't mean the fire will never come. It means when the fire comes that you will be able to withstand it." - Michael Simmons "Some people are making such thorough preparation for rainy days that they aren't enjoying today's sunshine." - William Feather

did u try __targv, i am not sure. just give a try. If u can Dream... U can do it

Hi tolw, thanks alot for your hint. I looked at the installed software, but all the updates and even the service packs are installed in English language (ENU), here is a screenshot: http://picfront.de/d/8cDs[^] I am totally confused now...

There are several good od menus here on CodeProject. I suggest you take a look at them for some clues: Owner Drawn Menu with Icons, Titles and Shading[^] Cool Owner Drawn Menus with Bitmaps - Version 3.03[^] Best wishes, Hans [Hans Dietrich Software]

Hi, thanks for your hints, I have also searched in the MSDN Lib myself, and have come to the conclusion that GetFullPathName works best for me, since it automatically expands a given filename to the full path. That was exactly what I wanted, and it works. :)

err ... Task Manager ?

Hans Dietrich wrote: You can use the IsWindow() function to determine if the window has been closed (i.e., destroyed). Although this works in the most of the case, it is not "safe": when a window is destroyed its handle becomes invalid and the is ID (the handle value) can be reused by the system for another subsequently created window. If you don't look at all that while happening, IsWindow may return TRUE, but the window may not be the one you intended. (I mean: "my name (handle) is the same of my grandfather, I was born after his death, and I live in what it was his house. But I'm not him"! But if you send a letter to him, I'll read it as mine and, hopefully, I can understand the misleading only from the context".) 2 bugs found. > recompile ... 65534 bugs found. :doh:

Thanks, I have done that now. There still stays one big problem which I simply do not understand: My menu is created using CreatePopupMenu, and it does not belong to a Main window. However, MFC always calls the MeasureItem overridable for my Mainwindow, which has a CMenu member, which is null, because the menu is not part of my mainwindow. How can I achieve that the MeasureItem method of my subclassed menu is called directly, instead of the mainwindows Measureitem function?

Dave Kreskowiak wrote: Got a citation for this?? Certainly is something I try to avoid since incorrect usage of interop or even the unmanaged itself code can cause an OS system exception thus exiting the app. That behavior is not acceptable in a server application. Probably not something that one wants to occur in any app as well. The following certainly would suggest that there are reasons that one might want to look for other options. http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms973872.aspx#manunman_topic4[^]

RaviRanjankr wrote: some people Down vote or comment without testing code, which is not good in any corner. agree with you

Thanks alot, this solution works perfectly!

This[^] is my post so with luck any responses will appear below. It's time for a new signature.

Thanks, this worked great, I simply created a Query called ValuesSortedQuery which I use in my DataContext, the query is really simple and looks something like this: SELECT * FROM Values ORDER BY Values.ID; Works just fine :)

Will RegSaveKeyEx() work for you? "One man's wage rise is another man's price increase." - Harold Wilson "Fireproof doesn't mean the fire will never come. It means when the fire comes that you will be able to withstand it." - Michael Simmons "Man who follows car will be exhausted." - Confucius

i stronglc recommand you to dig deeply in the Shell and IE programming of the famous Michael Dunn: http://www.codeproject.com/script/Articles/MemberArticles.aspx?amid=152[^] I know less than that. Press F1 for help or google it. Greetings from Germany