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Detecting Hardware -

How do I Detect the following hardware:

-Detect CD-ROM
-Detect ZIP Drive
-Detect JAZ
-Detect Sparq
-Detect Floppy
-Detect DVD

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Thanks,
In Christ,
Ben

 

[2005] Detecting hardware -
Just got a couple of questions about detecting a machines hardware. I've been asked to write an application that detects the users hardware, kind of like an installer that detects system requirements. How would I go about detecting a users CPU and it's frequency and how would I g

Detecting hardware from VB *RESOLVED* -
Is there anyway that I can trigger off a "Scan for Hardware Changes" from within VB code? I have found a MS article that describes how to do it from within C, but not for VB... Any pointers in the right direction will be much appreciated. (This needs to work in Windo

Detecting removable hardware devices -
I need to be able to detect what removable hardware devices are connected to the PC. I can view these devices by clicking on the "Unplug or eject hardware" (icon with green arrow in sys tray) (see attachment) but I need to be able to detect these in my VB6 code. Any ideas

Detecting Fan speed under WinXP -
How can I detect fan speed under windows xp using VB? I am familiar with VB programing. Also with hardware, but I'm unable to find peace of code that works well with hardware under WinXp

repeated data -
VB 2008, Crystal that comes with. I've got 3 tables. Customers, software, hardware. Software and hareware both have the exact same fields, they are seprate tables only for organization purposes. Software and Hardware are related to customers via inner joins. I've a group

Disable WinXp Auto Hardware install -
Is there a way to prevent WinXp from auto detecting hardware and auto installing hardware. The stupid OS will not let me remove, restart, and install the driver by myself. It keeps finding the wrong SiS 6326 drivers and thus I cannot get Dx7 to even work in HAL mode...pitiful.

Detecting Hardware -
How do I Detect the following hardware: -Detect CD-ROM -Detect ZIP Drive -Detect JAZ -Detect Sparq -Detect Floppy -Detect DVD ------------------ Thanks, In Christ, Ben

[2005] - Generate Hardware ID -
Hello again Now i want to protect my program, and what's better then the hardware from the pc. So my doubt is, how to generate an hardware id to every pc where i'll install my software.. I thought by getting, for example, the cpu info, the amount of ram, etc. and in the end get a

Your hardware for developing -
don't know if this is the right forum but what hardware is everyone using? I have 256 MB DDR ram, 1 gHz Duron, one 40 GB Harddrive split up so Visual Studio has it's own partition. Im considering buying all new hardware and would like to get some ideas. As far as muscle, I'm think

Hardware Configuration -
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Hardware viruses -
I don't really know a lot of detail about IT hardware yet, but how easy is it to place a virus in hardware? for example in a network card, a graphics card, a cpu chip, or even a keyboard or a mouse?

Controlling hardware -
Hi, Does anyone have any information or links regarding controlling hardware from VB. Ideally I would like to be able to control a simple system, say an arm or conveyer belt. I need help in finding the hardware and pointers to designing the software. Thanks in advance, Eri

Web App Architecture and Plug Ins question -
We are looking into a web application project at work. We have a architecture that must be pretty flexible in it's design in one particular area. I was wondering, has anyone used a plug in type architecture for a web application? What we are looking to do is create a flexible web

A question about DirectX and Hardware Accelerations. -
Hi, Everytime I see a VB APP that checks the Hardware Accelerator of my Graphics Card (MSI GeForce FX 5600 with AGP8X).. And it tells me all the info about it.. like "You can't run this game because your Hardware Acceleration is not activated.." And so... What is it

How can software be hardware -
Lately when i install software (XP Pro), when i restart my pc it says at the system tray "Found New Hardware", and it might say for example "Found New Hardware StyleXP". This never used to happen, so how can installing software trigger windows to think its hardwa

THE Hardware Thread -
Here's a quick hardware question, seeing as my campaign for a hardware forum has fallen flat on its face, I'm posting in Chit Chat. Any, to the question: Can I run a UDMA100 HD on a Mobo which supports ATA66 as its highest mode? Due to the lack of hardware forum, I've put a poll he

Any chance of a hardware forum -
Any chance of a hardware forum where we can discuss specific hardware issues relevant to VB programmers (drivers/ADSL/motherboard choice etc)

[2005] Handling a piece of hardware -
Hello what would i use to handle a piece of hardware that can be connected the the users pc using a usb cable? Would i use APIs to retrieve what's plugged in and if it eqauls the write type of hardware then i would use more APIs to reference parts of it etc...

Is PC the Next MAC -
The Most Important thing that Made a PC different from a Macintosh is that we are not bound to properiteray hardware and could freely choose our own piece of hardware. But Now....with Motherboards having Integarted Peripherals like Display card,sound Card etc... Is the PC

[2008] connect hardware to a program -
gud day! this is my first time to connect a hardware to my program using vb.net can help me to the procedure... example hardware is a web cam.. i want to capture,get and save the captured image.. tnx..

is this possible SQL query <RESOLVED> -
I have 3 tables: Customers, Software, Hardware. The software and hardware tables both contain the extact same field types {model #, serial # etc} and a refrence back to the customers table via a customer id field. I want to generate a sql statement that will print all items from

Hardware/Software Reviews -
Hey, I intend to start a hardware/review tweak site, and was wondering if anybody could help me review the hardware/software and would like to write articles on how to tweak certain things. E-mail me at SYAlam@aol.com for more info or if you would like to join.

connecting hardware to software -
i am just new to this hardware-software thing... i really have no idea on how to make a hardware work thru a visual basic program... can anybody give me an overview on this? or can anybody give me websites on this? i also heard of SDK... what does this actually mean? how does this

Software and Hardware list -
Does anyone know how to get a list of installed software (with location and publisher) and hardware (manufacturer etc) using Visual Basic. I can get a pretty good list of software from the unistall section of the registry but it doesn't contain as much info as control panel, I can't

Adding Hardware -
Recently i have had trouble with my speakers, so i deleted the drivers and that is where my problem occured. When i restarted, and windows started to load it noticed that there was some new pieces of hardware, so it began its journey for the hardware and the device drivers. Well that

turn off/on hardware acceleration with a VB prog -
How can one make a VBprog for turning on and off the Hardware Acceleration on your videocard.. The use of this is to be able to capture all elements on my screen,including video,fast refreshing windows,some java apps,and many more things that cant be captured when the hardware is on..

Retrieve specific hardware info -
Anyone have any code that will retrieve specific hardware information, such as the volume of a hard drive, cpu information, etc. I need to retreive some hardware values that would be specific to that machine. Any ideas/comments appreciated.

recordset -> combobox > textbox (unresolved) -
hi guys .. cant get this to work on the form there is one combobox and 2 text boxes. with table 'hardware' the combobox is filled with column1 when a record is selected from combobox... i want text1 to be filled with column2 value of the record and text2 to be filled

Get Hardware ID or Unique Identifier -
Hi guys...Im planning to make a simple function that would generate a unique number identifier for a particular computer. From my own understanding, correct me please if im wrong, every hardware has a unique ID Number so i decided to generate a unique number identifier for a computer b

Detecting MouseOut() -
Not sure if this is in the right place but I need help detecting whether the mouse has left a control, something like a MouseOut function or similar to. Thanx in advance if u can help

getting hardware info -
is it too hard ? i need to get some information about the installed hardware... please help, urgent! taLON

Connecting hardware -
How can I connect external hardware such as telephone operations to my program?

Hardware Input/Output -
How can I read and write to any hardware ? Or the COM Port would be enough. Using VB .NET and Windows XP. Thanks...

Hardware ports.... -
How do you access the hardware i/o port segment?? Or where is it located?? (eg: INP() / OUT() (qb)).

Hardware Forum -
Does anyone know any good forums with help on PC hardware troubleshooting. Thanks. lordsty

hardware communication -
Hi every one I want to communicate with a hardware that is connected to my computer Any clue wilbe helpfull

Detecting mouse button status -
I thought this would be easy, but i've searched around a bit and I can't seem to come up with an answer. How would you go about detecting the state of the mouse buttons.. not just for your own application, but for windows in general?

Proposed idea... -
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Hardware detection problem -
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Hardware serial number -
How to get Hardware s/n thru VB.NET? ..please advise? Thanks a lot Regards Winanjaya