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Thanks for your reply.

Unfortunately, I think you're right. The HID scripts I've downloaded from your first link do not seem to detect that button. Sad

Hi!

I've recently bought a new Medion PC, pre-installed with Windows Vista and the Windows Media Center. I've noticed that there are now two hardware buttons to turn the computer on: the regular b ...

Ah, OK! I didn't know the ahk_pid %PID% trick.
Huge thanks!

I have searched the forum, but couldn't find the answer. How can I retrieve the complete list of all windows opened by a specific process? (I am already able to find the parent window of the process ...

Thanks!

Currently, I have implemented the pause using pssuspend.exe and it works pretty well, although it is better to hide the windows pertaining to the suspended process (as they are not refreshe ...

Unfortunately, I have just browsed the MSDN site, and found nothing directly exploitable (except, perhaps, [url=http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms686345.aspx]SuspendThread, but I don't know h ...

Nice finding!

But, IMO, the existence of this tool proves that there must be some kernel function able to do what I need. I would like to use it instead of an external tool.

Thanks anyway!

Well, it's possible, of course, but the goal is to pause it completely, to avoid heavy IO operations.

When two processes are writing large files to disc at the same time, the CPU load of each proce ...

Hi!
I need to pause a process that has not been started by my script. I know its PID, process name or exe path to identify it.
Is it a way to pause and resume that process, in a manner similar to c ...

I've found another interesting thing.

When the root window of an application is not visible (but appears in the taskbar) and another "normal" window contains the GUI (and is not in the ta ...

I suppose you have to install another hook. Maybe Skan can help...
Or use the timer method. It works nicely, although it consumes some CPU power.
Of course, with both methods, you have to exclude ...

OK, I,ve finally found some time to do a demo script, with what I've learned.

The script demonstrate how to get the ID of the window that was active before the user clicked on the tray menu to call ...

That was my intention, but I would like to improve it before, and I haven't much time these days. I will post it in some days. Sorry.
But the method is based on the HSHELL_WINDOWACTIVATED tip poste ...

Unfortunately you can't do this with tray icon.
I know! I've tried. Sad

I had banch of windows and EditPlus. I dblclk on tray icon, edit plus goes top. i do it again, it is not on top any more. I ...

Thanks for the tip. However, that doesn't work as expected.

I'm sure the method explained in the other thread works well for an Alt-Tab menu replacement, and it does exactly what I have asked, but ...