Latest Win32 Articles

Making a Countdown App (Timer)

By Hannes Du Preez - Published 04/08/2015

Count up or count down. Learn how to do it all with Visual Basic.

Secure Desktop Prompting : Always Run As Administrator

By Shane Findley - Published 12/01/2009

"White list" certain programs to "Run As Administrator", all the time. See how it enters a "secure desktop" with a classic Vista/7 prompt.

Tip: Screen Capture

By Ashim Dutta - Published 11/10/2009

This tool will help user to capture selected area of screen. It provides user to set his/her own HotKey to capture screen. It runs in system tray. Source code is included with this article.

File Verbs - EXE System Shortcut Menu Items

By Shane Findley - Published 11/10/2009

Do the verbs of a file, like Run as administrator, and Pin to Taskbar.

VB 6 and USB Flash Disks

By Hannes du Preez - Published 03/13/2008

Learn to determine whether or not a disk is plugged in. Also, learn how to make the disk Autorun, similar to CD drives, and, how to run a normal VB 6 program from this disk, without needing to install it on the client machine.

MAC-Based Authentication for Web Sites

By muhammad irfan - Published 09/04/2007

Learn how to implement an additional security layer on company web sites by getting the machine ID of the system from registered users along with the user ID and password.