windows-vista

I have a problem very similar to the one described here: http://www.eggheadcafe.com/software/aspnet/30579866/prevent-vista-from-markin.aspx That thread suggests that Task Manager sends WM_NULL to the process and expects the process to consume this message within timeout limit (5 seconds?). When I google for "WM_NULL hung" there are many references to the same technique. However I don't see any WM_NULL messages in the queue of my application while it works on a lengthy operation - I have a secondary thread that switches to the main thread every 0.5 sec and calls PeekMessage() looking for WM

Note: Question Using 256 x 256 Vista icon in application deals with using a "Vista" icon as the application's icon. This question deals with manually painting a Vista icon. Note: Question WinForms .NET 2.0: How to paint the proper sized icon? deals with painting a Vista icon loaded from a file. This question deals with painting a Vista icon that is loaded from a .resource. I've included an icon in my Visual Studio project that has various formats: 16x16 32x32 48x48 256x256 (PNG compressed) Now want to draw the 256x256 version. None of the following things I've tried work. The following draws

I need to allow WakeTimers (computer wake up from sleep/hibernation) for all power plans set on plugged in to Enabled. I tried Win32_PowerSetting but it only works on english version of Windows. I need to use .NET 2.0 Thanks for responses ! I suspect you can do this using API calls to powrprof.dll, as well as WMI, but I haven't had the time to figure that approach out. This setting appears to be simply a boolean registry key that is located according to your current power plan: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Power\User\PowerSchemes\(Current Power Scheme GUID)\(Sleep

We have a Java application that uses some C++ libraries through JNI. The application used to work just fine in Windows XP, but it does not work in Windows Vista, it just crashes the JVM right away. We also wrote the C++ libraries and produced JNI bindings using SWIG. We are a little bit clueless on where to start looking for a way to fix the problem. Here is the EXCEPTION_ACCESS_VIOLATION that we get: # # An unexpected error has been detected by Java Runtime Environment: # # EXCEPTION_ACCESS_VIOLATION (0xc0000005) at pc=0x771b4335, pid=1320, tid=2004 # # Java VM: Java HotSpot(TM) Client VM (1

I'm running windows vista and want to get the appearance to look like regular vista programs. Are there any really good tutorials/articles on how to build Vista Style apps? I would also like to learn how to use the native code and convert it to C# like in this example. If you're using WPF you can use Microsoft's Vista Bridge library which has several useful controls. Otherwise, just look at the Windows UX Guidelines and roll your own. From that page: Some of the features included in the Vista Bridge Sample Library are - Vista style Task and File Dialogs, Common Open and Save dialogs,

How can one pass command line arguments via file association in Vista 64? I recently built a PC running Vista Ultimate 64-bit. I noticed several of the Perl scripts I transferred failed due to command-line arguments not being passed. As a simple test, I wrote the following (foo.pl): #!/usr/bin/perl -w use strict; my $num_args = $#ARGV + 1; print "${num_args} arguments read\n"; print "$^X\n" # to see what was being used Running "foo.pl 1 2 3" undesirably yielded: 0 arguments read C:\strawberry\perl\bin\perl.exe Running "perl foo.pl 1 2 3" expectedly yielded: 3 arguments read C:\strawberry\perl

I have an installer-like application that I have to run as elevated on Vista. But from there I have to start a new process as non-elevated. Any hints how to do this with Delphi2007? I found an excellent example for C++ and adapted it for Delphi: unit MediumIL; interface uses Winapi.Windows; function CreateProcessMediumIL(lpApplicationName: PWChar; lpCommandLine: PWChar; lpProcessAttributes: PSecurityAttributes; lpThreadAttributes: PSecurityAttributes; bInheritHandle: BOOL; dwCreationFlags: DWORD; lpEnvironment: LPVOID; lpCurrentDirectory: PWChar; const lpStartupInfo: TStartupInfoW; var