I have had a hard problem with my computer in the past. One is that I
would have a memory stick plugged in and it would start to flash for
no reason. Nothing should be accessing it. Could it be a virus or spy
ware? The word SPY comes to mind. I remember writing programs in
Visual C++ and creating a message loop. At the time Visual C++ had an
app called Spy. The icon was of the head of a blue detective with a
magnifying glass. Is there something I could use using Visual studio
2008 that would show me what is in the loop? I would love to roll up
my sleeves and write the message loop but have forgotten this. I do
write in C# but any way would help. Adding to a database table would
be cool.

Told you this would be a hard problem. Scratch those brain cells.

Any ideas?

Des wrote:
> I have had a hard problem with my computer in the past. One is that I
> would have a memory stick plugged in and it would start to flash for
> no reason. Nothing should be accessing it. Could it be a virus or spy
> ware? The word SPY comes to mind. I remember writing programs in
> Visual C++ and creating a message loop. At the time Visual C++ had an
> app called Spy. The icon was of the head of a blue detective with a
> magnifying glass. Is there something I could use using Visual studio
> 2008 that would show me what is in the loop? I would love to roll up
> my sleeves and write the message loop but have forgotten this. I do
> write in C# but any way would help. Adding to a database table would
> be cool.
>
> Told you this would be a hard problem. Scratch those brain cells.
>
> Any ideas?

Task Manager? (If you are trying to see what is running on your system.)

Or else ask a coherent question? Like maybe explaining what your memory stick
has to do with writing a "message loop" or what either of those has to do with
adding to a database table.

You are right, figuring out what the hell you are actually asking for here is a
hard problem . . . maybe you should figure that out first and then repost your
question without assuming that we can follow your apparently random jumps.

-rick-

On 9/17/2011 1:42 PM, Des wrote:
> I have had a hard problem with my computer in the past. One is that I
> would have a memory stick plugged in and it would start to flash for
> no reason. Nothing should be accessing it. Could it be a virus or spy
> ware? The word SPY comes to mind. I remember writing programs in
> Visual C++ and creating a message loop. At the time Visual C++ had an
> app called Spy. The icon was of the head of a blue detective with a
> magnifying glass. Is there something I could use using Visual studio
> 2008 that would show me what is in the loop? I would love to roll up
> my sleeves and write the message loop but have forgotten this. I do
> write in C# but any way would help. Adding to a database table would
> be cool.

Google leads me to:

http://mdb-blog.blogspot.com/2010/11...-download.html

I can not guarantee for what it is, but it could be worth
looking at.

Arne

On 9/17/2011 3:48 PM, Rick Lones wrote:
> Des wrote:
>> I have had a hard problem with my computer in the past. One is that I
>> would have a memory stick plugged in and it would start to flash for
>> no reason. Nothing should be accessing it. Could it be a virus or spy
>> ware? The word SPY comes to mind. I remember writing programs in
>> Visual C++ and creating a message loop. At the time Visual C++ had an
>> app called Spy. The icon was of the head of a blue detective with a
>> magnifying glass. Is there something I could use using Visual studio
>> 2008 that would show me what is in the loop? I would love to roll up
>> my sleeves and write the message loop but have forgotten this. I do
>> write in C# but any way would help. Adding to a database table would
>> be cool.
>>
>> Told you this would be a hard problem. Scratch those brain cells.
>>
>> Any ideas?
>
> Task Manager? (If you are trying to see what is running on your system.)

I don't think task manager can see the windows messages.

> Or else ask a coherent question? Like maybe explaining what your memory
> stick has to do with writing a "message loop" or what either of those
> has to do with adding to a database table.

He explained that is was to investigate a situation with unexplained
IO to the mem stick - didn't he??

> You are right, figuring out what the hell you are actually asking for
> here is a hard problem . . . maybe you should figure that out first and
> then repost your question without assuming that we can follow your
> apparently random jumps.

Hint: first step to understand it is to read it!

Arne

Arne Vajhøj wrote:
> On 9/17/2011 3:48 PM, Rick Lones wrote:
>> Des wrote:
>>> I have had a hard problem with my computer in the past. One is that I
>>> would have a memory stick plugged in and it would start to flash for
>>> no reason. Nothing should be accessing it. Could it be a virus or spy
>>> ware? The word SPY comes to mind. I remember writing programs in
>>> Visual C++ and creating a message loop. At the time Visual C++ had an
>>> app called Spy. The icon was of the head of a blue detective with a
>>> magnifying glass. Is there something I could use using Visual studio
>>> 2008 that would show me what is in the loop? I would love to roll up
>>> my sleeves and write the message loop but have forgotten this. I do
>>> write in C# but any way would help. Adding to a database table would
>>> be cool.
>>>
>>> Told you this would be a hard problem. Scratch those brain cells.
>>>
>>> Any ideas?
>>
>> Task Manager? (If you are trying to see what is running on your system.)
>
> I don't think task manager can see the windows messages.

It can't. It can tell you who is doing I/O operations, though.

>
>> Or else ask a coherent question? Like maybe explaining what your memory
>> stick has to do with writing a "message loop" or what either of those
>> has to do with adding to a database table.
>
> He explained that is was to investigate a situation with unexplained
> IO to the mem stick - didn't he??

Yes. But is he asking how to do it himself or which utility can do it for him?
If the latter, then he is way off topic for this group.

>> You are right, figuring out what the hell you are actually asking for
>> here is a hard problem . . . maybe you should figure that out first and
>> then repost your question without assuming that we can follow your
>> apparently random jumps.
>
> Hint: first step to understand it is to read it!

I did. It's incoherent crap, IMO. But feel free to scratch your brain cells on it.

>
> Arne

Des wrote:
> I have had a hard problem with my computer in the past. One is that I
> would have a memory stick plugged in and it would start to flash for
> no reason. Nothing should be accessing it. Could it be a virus or spy
> ware? The word SPY comes to mind. I remember writing programs in
> Visual C++ and creating a message loop. At the time Visual C++ had an
> app called Spy. The icon was of the head of a blue detective with a
> magnifying glass. Is there something I could use using Visual studio
> 2008 that would show me what is in the loop? I would love to roll up
> my sleeves and write the message loop but have forgotten this. I do
> write in C# but any way would help. Adding to a database table would
> be cool.
>
> Told you this would be a hard problem. Scratch those brain cells.
>
> Any ideas?

There is a utility called Spy++, successor to the Windows 3 (if not earlier) Spy
utility, which is no doubt the one you are remembering. I think is ships as
part of Visual Studio, although not necessarily the most current versions.
Google Spy++.

-rick-

Rick Lones wrote:
> Des wrote:
>> I have had a hard problem with my computer in the past. One is that I
>> would have a memory stick plugged in and it would start to flash for
>> no reason. Nothing should be accessing it. Could it be a virus or spy
>> ware? The word SPY comes to mind. I remember writing programs in
>> Visual C++ and creating a message loop. At the time Visual C++ had an
>> app called Spy. The icon was of the head of a blue detective with a
>> magnifying glass. Is there something I could use using Visual studio
>> 2008 that would show me what is in the loop? I would love to roll up
>> my sleeves and write the message loop but have forgotten this. I do
>> write in C# but any way would help. Adding to a database table would
>> be cool.
>>
>> Told you this would be a hard problem. Scratch those brain cells.
>>
>> Any ideas?
>
> There is a utility called Spy++, successor to the Windows 3 (if not
> earlier) Spy utility, which is no doubt the one you are remembering. I
> think is ships as part of Visual Studio, although not necessarily the
> most current versions. Google Spy++.
>
> -rick-

P.S. I suspect that you are going to discover that it is Windows itself that is
peeking at your drive, probably the background file indexing service.

On Sep 18, 6:51*am, Peter Duniho <NpOeStPe...@NnOwSlPiAnMk.com> wrote:
> On 9/17/11 10:42 AM, Des wrote:
>
> > [...] Is there something I could use using Visual studio
> > 2008 that would show me what is in the loop? I would love to roll up
> > my sleeves and write the message loop but have forgotten this. I do
> > write in C# but any way would help. Adding to a database table would
> > be cool.
>
> You can try using Spy++ as suggested by others, but I think the better
> tool if you want to see what, if anything, is accessing your USB drive
> would be either the Resource Monitor in Windows, or Process Monitor from
> the Sysinternals guys (now at Microsoft).
>
> Resource Monitor can be run from the Task Manager: just start Task
> Manager, go to the Performance tab, and there should be a button that
> says "Resource Monitor". *It has an i/o pane that will tell you the most
> active files being accessed.
>
> Process Monitor is even more specific: it creates a filterable log that
> records every single OS operation that happens, including file system
> access.
>
> A tool sort of in between that could also be used is Sysinternals'
> Process Explorer. *It has a "search for handle" feature that you can use
> to find any OS handle referring to a specific named object, just as a
> file. *Just enter the drive letter (e.g. "E:\") for the search and it
> should turn up any files open on that drive and tell you which process
> has them it open.
>
> There are other ways to approach the problem as well. *None of them,
> including the above, have anything whatsoever to do with C# programming.
>
> Pete

Sorry. guys the message loop which everyone had to write in order to
create a windows app is to long ago for you.

"Des" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:f1d7ad0c-0dc8-4f72-b9aa-(E-Mail Removed)...

> Sorry. guys the message loop which everyone had to write in order
> to create a windows app is to long ago for you.

We know what a message loop is. Spy++ is exactly what you want if you want
to view a window's message queue (and QUEUE is what you're really talking
about, not "loop").

However, I agree that for what you're trying to do you should definitely
take the advice of others and use a different utility to determine what
process is accessing your drive. THEN you can use Spy++ to check out that
process's message queue, but I doubt that'll do you much good.

Feel free to disregard this advice just like you seem to have done with
everyone else's. You appear to have asked a question wanting one specific
answer and nothing else, which makes me wonder why you asked in the first
place.

"Des" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:0da700ec-877d-49ee-a98b-(E-Mail Removed)...

> Is there something I could use using Visual studio
> 2008 that would show me what is in the loop? I would love to roll up
> my sleeves and write the message loop but have forgotten this. I do
> write in C# but any way would help.

You know what, folks? I think I've figured out his actual question. Here's
my translation: "Can I write a C# program that will do what Spy++ does?"