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hi I am trying to get PID from the foreground window, but this doesn't work because I am passing the wrong kind of handle to the function. This is under python. How do I fix this? thx! import ctypes import time time.sleep(2) handle = ctypes.windll.user32.GetForegroundWindow() print(handle)...

Hi, I am trying to extract information from one program, then import it into Excel. Well, the format it is extracted is not the format that is what I need. So, I have been manually deleting all the unneeded rows. My question is there a macro or C-Plus program that can delete these rows for me...

Using the command line, I would like to write a simple script that creates two folders C:\$X.~01 and C:\$X.~01 and then maybe uses the icacls command to set the permissions on both folders such that neither folder may be read, written or modified in any manner except specifically by a single...

Hey all! I'm a noob at writing batch files and have written a bunch, but my latest one is an odd one. I'm actually trying to break remote machines (for security reasons) by renaming the bootmgr system file and then shutting the machines down so they can no longer boot up. My batch file will map...

Hello, I'm new here, I'm wondering how I can integrate software in the Windows. For example, if I want to add an item to the context menu, in the explorer window, to send a file to an OLD folder. So, after click in «Send to Old» it would create a folder «yyyy-MM-dd - Old» in the same path of...

I was bored and decided to look at the GodMode shortcut. For those of you that don't know what that is I'll explain. It's basically a folder shortcut with a special CLSID extension. CLSID is short for Class ID. The godmode shortcut will display a lot of settings available in the Control...

Script to convert setting to EMET 5.5 values Link Removed

Windows Management Framework 5.0 includes updates to Windows PowerShell, Windows PowerShell Desired State Configuration (DSC), Windows Remote Management (WinRM), Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI). Link Removed

Hi, I would like to create a bat file that will disable Network Discovery on Windows 10. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks, David

In this episode Chris Risner and Haishi Bai are joined by Link Removed, Program Manager on the Azure Compute Engineering team focusing on Linux and Scale. He joins us to talk about Virtual Machine Scale Sets. Scale Sets are a way to deploy and manage a set of identical VMs. Scale Sets handles...

The object is to create a unique Event Viewer ID that appears when a specific background process starts - Windows 10 Calculator, for example. When calculator is in use, it is listed only in the Task Manager APPS area. However, when it's not running it randomly appears only as a background...

Hi, I have already learnt to use (dir /b >direct.txt) in CMD prompt to copy all the file names in a folder to a txt file but was wondering if i'st possible to also get all the file details such as Year, Genre, Writer, Director, Contributing Artist & Comments etc. Regards Wyldbear

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In case you're curious how to add Universal Windows Platform functionalities that isn't already covered with Unity APIs or with existing plugins - here is how you can write your own plugins targeting UWP. Edit: one little correction, instead of checking all boxes for the stub plugin, just...

Today, Link Removedwhich includes support for Windows 10 and the Universal Windows Platform (UWP). With UWP support in Unity 5.2, developers can build a single game for Windows 10 that targets multiple devices ranging from phones to tablets to PCs to Xbox. This means that multiple screen sizes...

Hi. I'm trying to wake my win 7 pc from sleep (not from hibernation) using task scheduler but I'm having some problems. The pc does not wake up. I have set a task that has an action to starts cmd.exe and argument is "/c "exit"". Windows runs as a shell and apparently running windows as a shell...

As the summer wraps up here are just 25 of the many videos, posts and episodes from last week... Link Removed C# 6 makes coding even easier. Watch how Link Removed guides the discussion by comparing previous approaches to common tasks with new ways introduced in version 6. Features covered...

Hello & Thanks , win7 x64 Starting yesterday , I keep getting the following message: Windows Script Host Can not find script file "C:\ProgramData\{95137DD0-C591-AC56-7417-DCD4A4950F5A}\2.0.1.9\lare.txt". Any idea why and how to fix it ? Thanks/ ...Vern

I'm trying to add an entry to the AutoPlay dialog that shows up when a USB device is connected to the computer. The problem is that this entry is not displayed in the AutoPlay dialog. Autorun.inf [autorun] action=Backup now icon=backupicon.ico label=Drive for backup open=backupnow.bat...

I've received a number of emails and comments about Unity, mostly "How do I get started..." For those looking to get started, today is your day! Vahe Karamian recently published a great 10+1 series of posts on learning Unity 3D. UNITY 3D - Game Programming Introduction Introduction It has...