Simulate mouse moves and clicks
You can move mouse cursor and simulate clicking programmatically using just one simple procedure.
Hide / show all icons on desktop
Another “one-line code trick” and probably completely useless. 🙂
Animate application icon (on taskbar and apllication window)
This trick is pretty simple. You just need few icons (at least two) for animation and Timer component. The rest is easy…
Create autorun registry key (run application with Windows start)
To run your application automatically after Windows starts, you just need to create an entry in autorun registry key. Here is how…
Set priority level of running application (process)
Using SetPriorityClass function, you can set priority level of your running application. Same functionality is in the Task Manager (just rightclick the process in the list and select priority level).
Flash application button on taskbar
If your application is minimized and you still want to alert user, you should flash icon on taksbar instead of bring your application to front. Here is how to do… Read more »
Global system hotkey
Using the RegisterHotKey function and few other lines of code, you can register a global system hotkey, which is active even if your application is minimized.
How to detect (and prevent) system shutdown
When Windows are being shutdown or restarted, all runnig applications are closed of course. This can be dangerous, because you can lost your unsaved documents. But there is an easy… Read more »
Disable / enable Start button
The Start button will be still visible, but not clickable. Completely useless trick. 🙂
Hide and show taskbar programmatically
Just few lines of code to hide and show Windows taskbar programmatically.