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Library : kernel32.dll  Category : File Management

Api Example(s)

Check whether the current user is an administrator

Wait for the termination of a program using Windows Scripting Host

GetDriveTypeEx - Detect drive type, including CD or DVD driver

GetFileDateInfo - Retrieve all date information about a file

SetFileSize - Trim or extend a file's size

CConsole - A class for creating console applications

CheckWindowsUser - Validate a username/password pair

ExeNameFromWindow - The name of the process that created a window

CheckWindowsUser - Check whether a username/password pair is correct

GetProcessesInfo - Retrieve information on active processes

GetProcessModules - The list of DLLs and OCXes a process uses

KillProcess - Terminate any application

How to Kill a Program Process

Running an EXE at a particular position with particular dimensions.

Get the Number of Waiting Jobs of a specified Printer on your network

Registering File Associations and Passing Command Line Parameters to an Existing App Instance

Shell an application and wait asynchronously for completion

Using PSAPI to get a complete task list and memory usage.

How to Shutdown the System in Windows 9x and NT

Forcing a local or remote NT system to reboot

Console Application in VB (part 1)

Check Access Rights to File/Directory on NTFS Volume

How to perform Direct Read/Write to disk (low level I/O)

Know the secrets of safe Multi-Threading in VB (For Advanced Users)

How To Start a Process as Another User from Visual Basic

Handling NTFS Permissions Part -1 (handling kernel object permissions)

How to use Named Pipes in a Visual Basic 32-bit Program ?

Sharing Data Between Processes Using Memory-Mapped Files

Working with file time APIs

Redirect command line output to textbox using CreatePipe API

Monitor folder activities using ReadDirectoryChangesW API(Win9x/Me not supported)

Encrypt/Decrypt file using Microsoft Crypto APIs (With User specific crypto key option)

Appending One File to Another File

Taking advantage of NTFS inbuilt compression using APIs (Only for NTFS file system)

How To Read/Write Data File Using ReadFile and WriteFile API