Registry ???

[Peter Stephensen]

I start a program by changing %HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Desktop\DragFullWindows from "1" to "0" to avoid automatic resizing of windows when dragging. The problem is that it has no effect until windows looks down in the registry. How do i force windows to update its desktop - settings?

Regards
Peter

[Lance Edmonds]

I'd say you'd have to force a reboot.

The DragFullWindows attribute seems to be a WMI "readonly" attribute (at least thats how MSDN reads to me), so it must be set at boot-up time.


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[Peter Patzwaldt]

Nop,
this is the wrong way. You'll need to do it like in the following example:

SUB SETWINSTATE ALIAS "SetWinMoveState" (BYVAL NewState AS LONG) EXPORT
 NewState = ABS(NewState)
 SystemParametersInfo %SPI_SETDRAGFULLWINDOWS, NewState, 0, %SPIF_SENDWININICHANGE
END SUB

Hope this will help.

PS: You can change the state as often as you want without rebooting the system.

Peter

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[This message has been edited by Peter Patzwaldt (edited June 14, 2000).]

[Peter Stephensen]

Peter --

Thanks! Did not know that one!

Regards
Peter

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[Lance Edmonds]

Excellent tip, Peter! Thanks!

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