Short answer No, SOCKETs should not be marked inheritable. When certain Layered Service Providers (LSPs) are installed, the inherited handles simply can’t be used in the child. As an added irritation, see the related issue “Can TCP SOCKETS be marked non-inheritable?”. Briefly, you can’t rely on being able to inherit the sockets, but nor can … Read more
In order for your keyboard hook to be accessible from all processes, it has to be placed in a DLL which will then be loaded into each process’ address space. One important thing to keep in mind is that since each instance of the DLL is loaded in a separate process, each will have its … Read more
If you have a filtered token for the interactive user – for example, one retrieved via WTSQueryUserToken() – you can retrieve the unfiltered (“elevated”) token by using the GetTokenInformation function with the TokenLinkedToken option.
Edit 2. There is even a better way for doing fullscreen, the chromium way, source taken from here: http://src.chromium.org/viewvc/chrome/trunk/src/ui/views/win/fullscreen_handler.cc?revision=HEAD&view=markup void FullscreenHandler::SetFullscreenImpl(bool fullscreen, bool for_metro) { ScopedFullscreenVisibility visibility(hwnd_); // Save current window state if not already fullscreen. if (!fullscreen_) { // Save current window information. We force the window into restored mode // before going fullscreen … Read more
Each API is for different uses. Each one also requires that you use the correct deallocation/freeing function when you’re done with the memory. VirtualAlloc A low-level, Windows API that provides lots of options, but is mainly useful for people in fairly specific situations. Can only allocate memory in (edit: not 4KB) larger chunks. There are … Read more
In C/C++ LONG lStyle = GetWindowLong(hwnd, GWL_STYLE); lStyle &= ~(WS_CAPTION | WS_THICKFRAME | WS_MINIMIZEBOX | WS_MAXIMIZEBOX | WS_SYSMENU); SetWindowLong(hwnd, GWL_STYLE, lStyle); WS_CAPTION is defined as (WS_BORDER | WS_DLGFRAME). You can get away with removing just these two styles, since the minimize maximize and sytem menu will disappear when the caption disappears, but it’s best to … Read more
Well, since this post failed badly, I had to dig into the matter myself. Also check out the other answers and comments for additional info regarding other versions etc. EDIT: Since I posted this Q there seems to be ready-built binaries made available from the curl homepage. Check out James’ answer. So here goes: – … Read more
Short answer: Maybe. Longer answer: It depends. To see what it depends on, and when this matters, it helps to understand, why SendInput was introduced into the Windows API: For one, it consolidates the keybd_event and mouse_event APIs into a single API call. More importantly, it adds a significant feature that isn’t available to the … Read more
Starting with Vista you have to use the Core Audio API to control the system volume. It’s a COM API that doesn’t support automation and thus requires a lot of boilerplate to use from .NET and PowerShell. Anyways the code bellow let you access the [Audio]::Volume and [Audio]::Mute properties from PowerShell. This also work on … Read more