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How to read sectors of a physical drive under Win32?
Jan 15th
How to read the sectors of physical drive under win32? The API ReadFile is most useful function, and with it, you can read the physical sectors directly. Here is a sample function, BOOL ReadSectors(…) BOOL ReadSectors( BYTE bDrive, //drive index DWORD dwStartSector, //start sector WORD wSectors, //sectors number LPBYTE lpSectBuff) { 　if (bDrive == 0)
How to get a fixed code for serial number(2)
Jan 10th
I have post an article about “How to get a fixed code for serial number” at http://www.ucosoft.com/archives/51.html. In that article, I suggest you try WMI class to retrieve some hardware ID. But there is some limitation of this method. The WMI redist package is not always available on user’s system, for example, Windows NT4 and Windows
How to Draw Bitmap from a bmp File?
Jan 4th
How to load a bitmap from bmp file and draw it in DC? There are two main steps: Load the bitmap from the file to a memory DC. Paint the content of the memory DC to the one which display the bitmap. In MFC, there is no API to load a bitmap directly from a
How to Get the Primary Domain name
Jan 3rd
In gina, the system will list the domain name of the current system. How to get the primary domain name in your program? From the released the Windows2000 and NT source code, you can get the code of gina. It locate on \win2k\private\windows\gina\winlogon\usrpro.c. Here is the code:
How to get the local DNS server record
Jan 2nd
If you don’t have Iphlpapi.lib installed, you can retrieve the local DNS server in the following way. The main step is load “Iphlpapi.dll” with ::LoadLibary method and call ::GetProcAddress to get the “GetNetworkParams”. Here is the full source:
How to retrieve the authenticode information
Dec 31st
Chinese verion author: Quaful@newsmth.net. When an ActiveX will be installed in IE, the authenticode information will be showed out. And how to get the information by programming? In microsoft KB323809: HOWTO: Get Information from Authenticode Signed Executables, there is a full example code. But it’s not very easy to use in your program directly. So
How to enable “profile” in Visual C++ 6.0
Dec 28th
From MSDN: The profiler is an analysis tool that you can use to examine the run-time behavior of your programs. By using profiler information, you can determine which sections of your code are working efficiently. The profiler can produce information showing areas of code that are not being executed or that are taking a long
How to read the graphics card RAM capacity
Dec 18th
When you want to get the RAM capacity of the graphics card installed on the computer, It’s more simple to use WMI class. You can give a look at the AdapterRAM attribute of Win32_VideoController. The Win32_VideoController WMI class represents the capabilities and management capacity of the video controller. AdapterRAM is one of its attibute: AdapterRAM
