Questions tagged [windows]
Microsoft's well-known operating system. Use this tag for code reviews where the code is targeted specifically for this platform, when no other more specific tags exist.
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ReadDirectoryChangesW Improvements
I'm currently using the ReadDirectoryChangesW Function from the Windows API to build a Directory Watcher. The Watcher should monitor a folder for newly added files.
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Python script to categorize download folder based on files
My Download habit is notorious and my download folder end up piled up with random downloads, I created a python script to maintain my download folder in windows
upon running the script it moves files ...
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Tic-tac-toe game for Windows console
I am doing C++ for over a year and this is my game I tried making tic-tac-toe. And it's also my first program that uses multiple source files.
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wtpdmt - Windows thread preemption duration measurement tool (C++)
I have this repository. The idea is that the user may measure for how long the thread is preempted with given priority class/thread priority.
CommandLineParser.h:
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Modern OpenGL Context that doesn't rely on CRT
I'm working on a personal OpenGL project. I want my project to not rely on any libraries including CRT.
I have absolutely no experience in shipping software and I want to prepare my code for release.
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Windows: Programmatically uninstall the NumberPad from ASUS ZenBook
Now I have this funny program. I bought an ASUS ZenBook which includes NumberPad. The downside of it is that it turns on with a slightest touch on its upper right corner so that I start write numeric ...
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uint24_t implementation ported to Windows
I coded stuff for an embedded device where int is 24bits. I wanted to port uint24_t and ...
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part of a c++ program which mods a game using code injection
https://github.com/speedrun-program/amnesia_load_screen_tool/blob/main/code_injection.cpp
https://github.com/speedrun-program/amnesia_load_screen_tool/blob/main/file_helper.h
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ds - A directory switcher via tags in Windows command line
I have this repository.
The idea is that there is a file tags sitting in the users home directory, and which contains the tag declarations of the format ...
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A Windows hook that detects the foreground window change
I tried to implement a windows hook to grab foreground window event. This code is probably bad because I didnt understand much. Can you tell me if that is better than a simple while loop that checks ...
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Code lines counter
It is a Windows command line utility for counting lines of code in a source code directory.
It will count loc and sloc.
I read from a file character by character using fgetc in the CountLines(...) ...
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Battleships console game - my first code in c++ using classes
Below my first code in c++. Its running fine. I feel I could improve a few things in my code. Please feel free to comment
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Optimizing Netwide Assembler codes in Microsoft Windows
I am a novice in assembler programing, I will will appreciate if someone could review these NASM assembler code for me. Is about encoder decoder.
The encoder performs the following:
pads the ...
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"Hello world" in x64 assembly for Windows - Shadow space / Stack alignment
I`m currently trying to delve into x64 assembly under windows using NASM, and created a minimalistic "Hello World" application.
It is mainly meant as an educational resource for me and ...
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Code for setting all child controls to the default message font on Windows
If you aren't aware, if you hand-code a GUI with the Windows API you will find your controls look quite ugly by default due to their font. Running this code:
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Simple networking framework in C++
Question: What do you think about this design and the implementation? This is a simple networking framework for IPv4, IPv6 TCP client and TCP server for Linux and MS-Windows in C++14. It uses a single-...
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Simple networking framework in C
Question: What do you think about this design and the implementation?
This is a simple networking framework for IPv4, IPv6 TCP client and TCP server for Linux and MS-Windows in C. It uses a single-...
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A POSIX getdelim() and getline() implementation for MSVC
Tired of always having problems in reading arbitrary length lines from file under Windows, I tried to write a POSIX getdelim() and ...
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ASCII game in console [closed]
Overall, I want to make a game in console, something Pokemon-like but with typical rpg scenery - swords, magic and all that. I want to make player able to move around the map, find dungeons, fight ...
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Synchronization \ backup of directories and files (Python)
stackexchange members. I'm just learning to write. I set myself a task a few days ago and today I completed its implementation. The task was to create a "backupper" (I was inspired just by ...
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Creating a new WinForm each time pressing a button in a main WinForm
I have WinForm C# application that every time you press on the green button:
It opens a new WinForm window. This is the code after pressing the green button:
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C++ logger for Windows
I have written a simple logger in C++ on Windows that I want to use to log info and errors from multiple threads to DbgView:
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Python module to print in printer
I made a code that simplifies the job of sending anything to print with the Windows API. The module has a Document object which stores a reference to the actual device context within it. You can ...
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All In One Stock, Program for My business
I built my first program to solve an issue occurring at my self-owned business.. This program I made after learning a bit of C. It took about a month to make and what it performs is
various functions ...
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Reliably setting keys in Windows Registry for a VBA addin
We have a PowerPoint VBA addin which is installed using an MSI installer written with WIX (Windows Installer XML).
For the addin to be picked up (for all users) by PowerPoint, name-value pairs need to ...
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Dividing shared resources for homogeneous multithread processing
I'm trying to implement a homogeneous multithreading example that multiple threads process portion of a huge task. In order to achieve this, I thought of clustering data/resource and multiple threads ...
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C++ Determine if a file is older than int hours
I have an MFC application where I need to determine if a file's last write time is older than n hours.
I thought there was a method to get total seconds from either system or file time, but I ended up ...
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Windows 10 wallpaper-scroller script with Gif support
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Hello, I'm a python beginner. I haven't had anyone use my code or anything. I want to improve and become a "professional python developer". I thank you for taking the time to help me ...
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Generating a random ipaddress in C
I was looking to receive some feedback on the function I wrote to generate a random ip address. The code is pretty messy and just wanted some feedback regarding optimizations, memory leaks and best ...
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Network utility tool
I wrote a little program in C based on some requirements:
Ping every IP from a file and check the result
Show, by network adapter, ONLY the IP, subnet, default gateway and DNS
Check the speed between ...
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In a search of perfect batch script for editing the hosts file
I want to edit Windows hosts file in the best way for the end user, using a batch-only solution. I ended up with this script, which works fine, but since I don't have enough knowledge, the syntax is ...
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Delphi function to canonicalize the capitalization in a file path
I'm building a small Delphi application where a user can input a file or directory manually by typing it or by selecting it from a dialog . Since it can be input manually, I want to ensure that I save ...
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powershell script for creating a Domain Controller
I don't have a lot of experience creating/managing an active directory environment. This will be more of a lab environment where a solution could be tested. It will not have lots of regular users etc, ...
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My little C++ library for comfortable programming
I've tried to make a little library in C++, to gather all useful and necessary functions. I wrote the code(in one file, to make it more portable). Unfortunately, it works on Windows only.
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Win32 Snake game
I made a trival snake game below to practice my C++ and Win32 programming skills.
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A simple C WinAPI program for terminating processes via process image names - follow-up 4
(See the previous version here.)
What's new
get_last_err_msg renamed to MyGetLastErrorMessage
The caller to ...
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Batch file for Wget downloads
I've just written this to facilitate my Wget downloads and I was wondering if anyone can review it for me.
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Custom Error Handler Library in C++
Is this code clean and optimized? When taking memory snapshots, it seems a bit high.
Anything I have done wrong or can do to optimize it?
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convert ID3DXMatrixStack to DirectXMath
Is it right it convert ID3DXMatrixStack to DirectXMath like that:
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Process Injector using ctypes and the Windows API
To get some practice with the Windows API and ctypes, I decided to write a program capable of injecting and running shellcode inside of another specified process.
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Enemy damaging with regen system
Small project i made to practice my c++, im a beginner and want to know all about optimizing code.
Enemy starts off with 10 HP and we can damage them for 1 HP by pressing F1,
If their HP is below ...
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Getting hard-drive serial number on Windows
The point is to get the serial number of one of the hard drives on Windows. My code is based on an example from MSDN. I tried to make it an exception-safe, self-contained function. It works, to the ...
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Windows high resolution timing class
I'm attempting to implement a high resolution class used to time the execution time of functions in Windows. After using this documentation, I have come up with the following:
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Dialog that controls external USB device that tests the latency of gaming computers - SysLat Cleanup #4
I have several static variables in my dialog class that I'm declaring in the header and then defining immediately in the cpp file. They are being used in an application with 2 threads, and these ...
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USB implementation of device that tests system latency on gaming computers - SysLat Cleanup #3
Here's my open source project: https://github.com/Skewjo/SysLat_Software.
The hardware controlled by this software can be found at https://syslat.com/. This is the 3rd question in a series of ...
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Detect discontinuities in Windows clock in Java
Please review the code below, which detects discontinuities in Windows system clock in long-running programs.
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Simple Tetris game
I made this simple Tetris game where I only have 2 blocks, the square and the line. Also the game ends after 20 blocks are created and the player wins. I was wondering how I can make it better overall....
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Creating a simple windows instance capable of rendering Direct3D graphics
I've just started to learn recently about Direct3D, when I've learned to create a simple window I started wondering if I could automate this process, so whenever I would need to create a window I ...
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Implementing dynamic array without STL
For my game engine that I'm trying to write without using STL I implemented dynamic array class(some kind of std::vector). I would like to know whether this code suits best practices. I'm also not ...
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