thanks for the hints, but i have found another workaround. because i have already a process which gets launched at startup - i simply put a pipe in it, which delivers the needed informationen whether a user has logged on. thanks anyway.

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HQUERY hQuery; HCOUNTER hCounter; if(ERROR_SUCCESS == PdhOpenQuery(0, 0, &hQuery)) { if(ERROR_SUCCESS == PdhAddCounter (hQuery,TEXT("\\Processor(0)\\% Processor Time"),0,&hCounter)) { int i = 0; while(i < 5) { ++i; if(ERROR_SUCCESS == PdhCollectQueryData(hQuery)) { PDH_FMT_COUNTERVALUE val; if(ERROR_SUCCESS == PdhGetFormattedCounterValue(hCounter,PDH_FMT_LONG|PDH_FMT_NOSCALE,0, &val)) { printf("\nCPU is at %d %%",val.longValue); } } Sleep(500); //wait for some time(not absolutely needed though, but better to wait some time atleast!) } PdhRemoveCounter(hCounter); } PdhCloseQuery(hQuery); } Bikram Singh

This flag allows you to use the process handle in any of the wait functions to wait for the process to terminate. BTW, it is available in Windows NT/2000 or later only. Gurmeet S. Kochar If you believe in God, it's because of the Devil

Thank you, i got it!

yes it helped, thank you, i got it!

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Indeed. It used to be that you had to do it that way (whether that was with Borland's compiler or Microsoft's compiler, I forget), but I've not done inline assembly in nearly a decade. Are you sure that is a valid statement (for an Intel platform)? A rich person is not the one who has the most, but the one that needs the least.

Thanks for your help! Actually i hoped that i am right, but i have expected that! What i try to do is the following: I have written a patch which injects some code into the kernel32.dll (Win98) which should load a specific .dll evertime the kernel32.dll is loaded. I have switched the original kernel32.dll with a boot disk. To get a little bit more specific: i have changed the adresse of the entry-point function, so it jumps to my code, where a specific dll should be loaded, and then jump back to the "real" entry-point-function! The strange but funny thing is, that windows98 starts up as if there is no manipulation in its kernel32.dll! I also have changed the code into something that makes no sense to see what happens, and yes, after that i have gotten a beautiful blue screen! The code to load the additional dll within the kernel32.dll is absolutely correct (that's what i think it is)! I don't have an idea why i doesn't load the dll! Any ideas ? Thanks in advance!

Yes, i did! But my problem is that the LoadLibraryA function doesn't load the dll!!

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OK, let's take another step back: why do you want to load this extra DLL into the process? What are you trying to achieve? You might find this useful: Three Ways to Inject Your Code into Another Process[^]. On NT-based versions of Windows, you can use the AppInit_DLLs registry value to load a DLL into every process. However, there are some severe limitations with this: see http://support.microsoft.com/?id=197571[^].

There are a few problems. Number 1: You can't simply add as much DLL Entries as you want into the Import Table, without changing the rva's of the following sections. Number 2: You have to find a place in the .exe/.dll file which is mapped into the memory Number 3: The place must be big enough to hold every needed information, such as the name of the dll you want to add Number 4: You must calculate a valid RVA for the position where the name of the DLL is located. Number 5: ... Number 4 seems not to be the last point to pay attention for, because if you fixed every mentioned problem, it still won't work! :mad: Do you know a better solution ? Thanks in advance!

Another solution is GetModuleFileName(). Kuphryn

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All these functions are exported from Shlwapi.dll (7/24/2002) as (ASCII: StrRetToBufA, UNICODE: StrRetToBufW etc) If not included in your version of Shlwapi.h you could consider checking in the latest W32 SDK (note that the standard MSDevStudio files are usually quite out of date). Quick solution might be to add its declaration yourself in your code. You would need of course to make sure that the right version of Shlwapi.dll is installed on the target system

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