Window Information Tools - Dis@, Cowspy

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spoon2001

Here are two programs that give you information about the windows that are
running on your computer. It's pretty technical stuff, but it may be useful
to you. Using these programs, you can do all kinds of things with your
windows.

Dis@
http://freehost18.websamba.com/RL11F/Dis/[email protected] (147K)
Make sure you don't use your download manager for this - mine didn't work -
I was able to download it only using direct download.

"Dis@ is a utility to give information about all windows in OS, visible or
invisible, masked (password ***) or transparent. You can search by handle,
by title, class name, visibility, etc. Dis@ allows user to change some of a
window properties and styles. It is compact and universal. Works under all
Windows 32bit OSs."

Dis@ has an interesting "sniffing" tool. You move your mouse around the
screen, and as you hover your mouse over a window (or a portion thereof),
the information displayed in Dis@ changes. There is also a Tools Mode,
which allows you to do more with your windows. But rather than try to
describe it, the best thing is to download the file and review the
MHT-format webpage contained inside the ZIP.

CowSpy
http://www.nakencow.tk/cowspyindex.php

Features in this version of CowSpy:

a.. See the windowclass name of all windows running at the moment on your
pc.

b.. See the handle of all these windows.

c.. See the Parent child structure between windows their childwindows and
components like buttons and labels.

d.. Option to see all the windows even the invisible ones.

e.. Bring any window to the front.

f.. Reposition a window: Somehow managed to get a window totally ofscreen,
it still holds important data? No problem you can use the reposition feature
of this system tool.

g.. Make windows visible and invisible or just one component off a window.

h.. Enable and disbale buttons or even whole windows or other components
(including but not limited by textboxes, modal windows, scrollbars,
listboxen, comboboxen, etc..).
Background -

I was trying to find what application put an "Image" tab in the properties
window for a JPG file. These programs didn't help me with that, but still
you may find the interesting and useful.
 
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B. R. 'BeAr' Ederson

I was trying to find what application put an "Image" tab in the properties
window for a JPG file. These programs didn't help me with that, but still
you may find the interesting and useful.

Look up HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT.jpg\shellex\PropertySheetHandlers inside the
registry. You'll find a reference to the program or library which shows
your property sheet. If not, the .jpg-entry may be only a link to
another entry (e.g. jpegfile). The appropriate target can be found as
(Standard) value of the .jpg entry, in such cases.

HTH.
BeAr
 

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