Roger Wright wrote: I'm going to visit her in the morning, so maybe I'll just grab a few Egg McMuffins and dye them on the way to her house. No need. Most of the major groceries should have all last week's Easter stuff on clearance sale. Got a ready-made basket and a bunch of candy for like $6 yesterday. Love this Orthodox stuff. Christmas can be done in January, too. :D No dogs or cats are in the classroom. My Mu[sic] My Films My Windows Programs, etc.

Hi, You could create a ShellWindows object[^] and call get_Count(); Something like this: INT GetExplorerCount() { LONG lCount = 0; IShellWindowsPtr shell; shell.CreateInstance(__uuidof(ShellWindows)); shell->get_Count(&lCount); return lCount; } Don't forget to CoInitialize. Also keep in mind that Internet Explorer and Windows Explorer are integrated... you will need to add some code to filter out instances of IE. Control panel windows are also shell windows. Best Wishes, -David Delaune

As jschell suggested, you can probably get tricky and get it accomplished one way or another, but by default, you should assume that the functionality will not be easily accessible unless made available by the hardware driver. Look for a drive that supports it and see if they have their own driver (as opposed to a generic HDD driver which is likely not to have this function) and have an API that allows you to access it.

This is for VS2003, but if I recall correctly, nothing changed from VS6 to 2003 in regards to threading: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/975t8ks0%28v=vs.71%29.aspx[^]