March 4, 2000

As you know, when you press CTRL+ALT+CANC the Task List window appears. This dialog allows you to see all the running processes and also to terminate them. If you don’t

The dialog you see when you start an Internet connection is implemented in the RNAUI.DLL file, and the specific function is called RnaDial. To open this dialog from your application

It takes only a handful of lines of code to create Windows inspector program, that is, an utility that lets you display the handle, the class name and the contents

If you need to know how Windows was started you have just to call an API function: GetSystemMetrics. Passing the SM_CLEANBOOT constant as parameter, the function returns a Long value

Have you ever needed to open a Windows dialog such as Internet Properties, New Hardware, Modem Properties or any other dialog you can find in the Control Panel? Well, it’s

Sometimes is useful to know how many buttons the user’s mouse has. This value can be obtained by calling GetSystemMetrics. The constant to pass as parameter is SM_ CMOUSEBUTTONS. Here’s

Browsers Targeted: Internet Explorer 4+ Dates can be a pain to deal with when working with scripting. Fortunately VBScript 5.0 supports a number of different functions that can simplify the