These are for more advanced delphi user's as i am not explaining how to add them into delphi (for beginners). sorry beginner's , but i will post a tut on how to shortly. i will also add more codes to this thread.
Open/close CD ROM
Hide/show application on task bar
Hide/show application in task list
Hide/show start button
Hide/show desktop
Shutdown/Restart windows
Open/close CD ROM
Code:
Uses mmsystem;
mciSendString('Set cdaudio door open wait', nil, 0, handle); to open
mciSendString('Set cdaudio door closed wait', nil, 0, handle); to close
Hide/show application on task bar
Code:
Uses Shellapi;
ShowWindow(application.handle, SW_hide); //hide
ShowWindow(application.handle, SW_restore); //show
Hide/show application in task list
Code:
implementation
function RegisterServiceProcess(idProcess,dwType : Integer):Integer; stdcall; external 'KERNEL32.Dll';
Hide/show start button
Code:
Uses Shellapi;
ShowWindow(FindWindowEx(FindWindow('Shell_traywnd',nil),0,'Button',nil),1); //show
ShowWindow(FindWindowEx(FindWindow('Shell_traywnd',nil),0,'Button',nil),0); //hide
EnableWindow(FindWindowEx(FindWindow('Shell_traywnd',nil),0,'Button',nil),True);? //enable start button
EnableWindow(FindWindowEx(FindWindow('Shell_traywnd',nil),0,'Button',nil),False)?; //disable start button
Hide/show desktop
Code:
Uses Shellapi;
ShowWindow(FindWindow('progman',nil),1); //to show
ShowWindow(FindWindow('progman',nil),0); //to hide
EnableWindow(FindWindow('shell_traywnd',nil),True); //to enable desktop
EnableWindow(FindWindow('shell_traywnd',nil),False); //to disable desktop
Shutdown/Restart windows
Code:
Uses Shellapi;
ExitWindowsEx(ewx_Shutdown,0); //to shutdown
ExitWindowsEx(ewx_Reboot,0); //to restart