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Friday, July 27, 2007 11:47 AM

DLL Image base addresses are the same in XP, different on Vista

When you start a program on your Windows XP computer, a process is created and several DLLs (Dynamic Link Libraries) are loaded into the process. Some DLLs are “system” DLLs, such as Kernel32.dll, GDI32.dll, User32.dll. These DLLs are loaded early in
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Tuesday, May 29, 2007 3:16 PM

Help->About->System Info doesn't work on Vista

A customer (thanks Grady!) reported that choosing Help->About->System Info on Vista causes a MessageBox to display “Microsoft System Info cannot be found or run.” Why is that? Simple investigation: run Regedit on WinXP and Vista to inspect this
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Saturday, May 05, 2007 9:13 PM

Create your own Flip Task Bar with live thumbnails using Vista Desktop Window Manager DWM

The sample below uses Desktop Window Manager under Windows Vista with Aero to get dynamic live thumbnails of running applications. If a movie is playing in Windows Media Player, it will play in the thumbnail too! EnumChildWindows or EnumWindows is used
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Thursday, May 03, 2007 4:50 PM

Vista Aero DWM seems to optimize out GDI paint calls

In this post: Foxpro Menu items, combo boxes not refreshing selected item under Aero in Vista I describe a problem in Foxpro where menu and list items that are supposed to be non-selected aren’t painted correctly. I described a workaround: call the GdiSetBatchLimit
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Wednesday, May 02, 2007 11:21 AM

Fun with Vista Aero using the DwmExtendFrameIntoClientArea

You can have a little fun with Vista Aero using the DwmExtendFrameIntoClientArea function. This will cause the VFP border to paint the glass effect around the fox border DECLARE integer DwmExtendFrameIntoClientArea IN dwmapi integer hWnd , string @ daMargins
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Tuesday, May 01, 2007 2:30 PM

Windows Vista Aero BorderStyle Paint problem as non Administrator

Above is an image of an inner form (from the C++ project below) before and after I dragged it a little bit up and left to obscure the title bar, then back to the original position. You can see the title, icon, close/minimize buttons were not painted correctly.
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Friday, April 13, 2007 2:29 PM

Add a manifest to control your application Vista UAC behavior

Try this on Windows XP or Vista (I don’t remember if manifests are allowed on Win2000: can someone confirm please? Thanks) Start Notepad, then choose File->Open and navigate to c:\windows\system32\notepad.exe and click Open. Hit Ctrl-F to find the
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