Re: Hard Disk Activity

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On Thu, 5 Feb 2009 17:13:56 -0500, in
microsoft.public.vb.general.discussion you wrote:

Maybe you were using SHChangeNotify?

You're absolutely right. *Many* thanks for the correction, and
apologies to the OP.

Filemon and most SysInternals tools have device drivers embedded in the
EXE(Usually SYS/DLL/VXD file). It auto extracts and install the driver then
talks to it, so it can't be duplicated by VB6, but one can write a driver in
C++, and talk to it from VB6, but one needs to be careful as VB is not
thread safe, so callbacks should be avoided.

That's an interesting method. I wonder how well it plays with DEP
and/or UAC?

They have a book called Windows Internals, but it's devoid of source code.
However, it explains the process, but one needs to know how to make drivers,
by downloading and reading the DDK. Here is a link to the page about the
book and a sample chapter(67 pages) about how the Registry, Services and WMI
work. Look for subtopic called "Regmon Internals" for details about how it
works.

Windows Internals Book
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb963901.aspx

That part might be a little hairy, but I appreciate (and have
bookmarked) the link.

J.
Jeremiah D. Seitz
Omega Techware
http://www.omegatechware.net
.

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