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  1. lbaker78

    Monitoring drive / folder writes...

    Hi All, Is there anyway of monitoring disk activity in a particular folder? Basically, I have a folder and I want to be able to record the file name of every file that is written to this folder or modified within the folder, in real time. Can this be done in VB? TIA :)
  2. lbaker78

    Weird Dir$() behaviour...

    Hi All, Am trying to check if a file exists using Dir$(filenamehere) and this works fine when I pass a filename to it by typign it in manually or even via a variable. However, if I read the filename from a text file using Textstream.Readline, it ALWAYS says the file exists, even when it...
  3. lbaker78

    Can I make windows Hibernate from VB?

    Hi All, I am writing a very simple app that will shut my laptop down when the power is unplugged. I am using the Sysinfo Active X control v6 to monitor the status every 10 secs via a timer, but I want the laptop to enter Hibernate instead of shutdown (shell"shutdown -s") but can't seem to find...
  4. lbaker78

    VB and Database Place Holders

    Hi All, I am trying to write some info to an Access Db, it all works fine until the data it's adding contains a ' (single apostrophe!). It then bombs out because now the command line is fragmented. I know in perl (and other languages I believe) you can use place holders to get around this...
  5. lbaker78

    VB6 and MS Access - why can I only add 12 records?

    Hi all, I am a n00bi3 VB6 programmer and have written (and/or borrowed!) the following code, it runs fine for the first 12 records it writes to the DB, but after that I get an error saying: Run-Time error '-2147217887 (80040e21)': Multiple-step operation genreated errors. Check each status...

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