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How can a desktop application communicate with a Windows service under Vista/Windows2008/Windows7? The application needs to send small strings to the service and receive string responses back. Both are written in Delphi 2009. (Please provide sample code also) The way to go is named pipes , you'll probably have to take a look at the communication across different Integrity levels . This article explores how to do this in vista. Although it's written in c++ it's just basic Windows API calls, so it should translate fast enough to Delphi. If you want to search for more on this subject, this

I have a number of files with the same naming scheme. As a sample, four files are called "num_001_001.txt", "num_002_001.txt", "num_002_002.txt", "num_002_003.txt" The first set of numbers represents which "package" it's from, and the second set of numbers is simply used to distinguish them from one another. So in this example we have one file in package 001, and three files in package 002. I am writing a windows vista batch command to take all of the files and move them into their own directories, where each directory represents a different package. So I want to move all the files for package

I want to make something of a tag cloud for various folders I have, but unfortunately, I can't seem to find a way to access the tags of a file in Windows Vista. I tried looking at the win32 module, and os.stat, but I can't seem to find a way. Can I get some help on this? JellicleCat I went about it with the win32 extensions package, along with some demo code I found. I posted a detailed explanation of the process on this thread . I don't want to reproduce it all here, but here is the short version (click the foregoing link for the details). Download and install the pywin32 extension . Grab the

Is it possible to programmatically disable UAC in Vista? Or, can I make my application run unrestricted by the UAC setting in any way? FYI, the application needs to mount hard drives on the fly, which is why I can't ask for UAC permission each time... Update: I'm looking for something in line with what Kosi2801 mentioned, basically to ask the user to always start the program in an 'elevated' mode. I'd want the permission to be a 1 time thing, I'm not saying that I programmatically disable UAC without asking permission first. I'm sure there are lots of programs that need to operate in this mode

How do you draw a custom button next to the minimize, maximize and close buttons within the Titlebar of the Form? I know you need to use Win32 API calls and override the WndProc procedure, but I haven't been able to figure out a solution that works right. Does anyone know how to do this? More specifically, does anyone know a way to do this that works in Vista? Matthew Scharley The following will work in XP, I have no Vista machine handy to test it, but I think your issues are steming from an incorrect hWnd somehow. Anyway, on with the poorly commented code. // The state of our little button