I have had a look at the registry with regmon and have isolated the key that is changed when a hardware device is disabled. When I try to edit this key using regedit, I am denied write access to it. The apimon sounds interesting and will give it a try.
Hylton ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ehsan Akhgari" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, June 15, 2004 6:31 PM Subject: RE: [msvc] RE : disabling hardware. > > Let me try to explain a little why I am trying to do what I want to > > do. > > There is a gaming product on the market, R100 racing wheel. > > This device does not work well with windows 200 and windows XP. > > (Manufactures web sit confirms this). However, if you connect the > > wheel, disable the device and re-enable the device, the wheel > > functions. I want to write a small app that will perform this function > > rather than going to the control panel to do this. Rebooting the > > machine should not be required to affect the change. > > Hmmm, I suggest you use the RegMon and FileMon tools from SysInternals.com > to see what the control panel applet does to disable the hardware. Also, > you may try APIMon to figure which API functions it calls to do so. > > ------------- > Ehsan Akhgari > > Farda Technology (http://www.farda-tech.com/) > > List Owner: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > [ Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ] > [ WWW: http://www.beginthread.com/Ehsan ] > > I've done the math enough to know the dangers of a second guessing... > > > > > _______________________________________________ > msvc mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > See http://beginthread.com/mailman/listinfo/msvc_beginthread.com for subscription changes, and list archive. _______________________________________________ msvc mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] See http://beginthread.com/mailman/listinfo/msvc_beginthread.com for subscription changes, and list archive.
