Re: BLOCKDRIVER

From: J French (erewhon_at_nowhere.com)
Date: 10/21/04


Date: Thu, 21 Oct 2004 08:45:48 +0000 (UTC)

On Wed, 20 Oct 2004 17:20:48 -0400, "umell" <user@user.net> wrote:

>I just wanted to circle back and post the solution to the problem that I was
>having. Let me explain a little more about the problem. I needed to know
>when a PCMCIA card was inserted into a laptop. So I started to look at the
>"Safely Remove Hardware" applet, this uses the hotplug.dll. So I fired up
>VB6 and set a reference to hotplug.dll, then I looked at the object browser.
>I could only get one class to work and the others gave me the error that I
>noted in the first post. After consulting with some other people, I found
>out that my answer lies in the registry,
>HKLM\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\mf\Enum\Count, this value will be 0
>if the card is not in the system and 1 if the card is in the system. Who
>knows maybe this post will help someone else.

Thanks - that is interesting info - one for my snippings archive



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