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  • GetVersionEx Not Working on Windows 7?!

    - by Andreas Rejbrand
    On my Windows 7 system, the GetVersionEx Windows API function returns "6.0", indicating Windows Vista, when it should return "6.1". If it matters, I used the following Delphi code: function winver: string; var ver: TOSVersionInfo; begin ver.dwOSVersionInfoSize := SizeOf(ver); if GetVersionEx(ver) then with ver do result := IntToStr(dwMajorVersion) + '.' + IntToStr(dwMinorVersion) + '.' + IntToStr(dwBuildNumber) + ' (' + szCSDVersion + ')'; end; and the string "6.0.6002 (Service Pack 2)" was returned. Isn't this highly odd?

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  • How do I get an unexpanded REG_EXPAND_SZ string from a remote registry?

    - by dalehhirt
    I am currently using RegistryKey.GetValue(string name, object defaultValue, RegistryValueOptions options) with RegistryValueOptions.DoNotExpandEnvironmentNames for the options value. However, this is only valid when run on the local machine. Digging down via Reflector, I find it expands the strings locally. Which means that irrespective of the setting, the strings come down remotely already expanded. Has anyone come across a solution to this that does not require running a process directly on the remote machine to get a REG_EXPAND_SZ value? Update: I attempted to use WMI's StdRegProv provider to gain access, but it still expands the strings before sending them back.

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  • Why this structure should have 48 bytes

    - by Maksee
    I tried to translate some new part of winuser.h header to Delphi. Why this structure is expected to be 48 bytes (only this size was accepted by the corresponding function). With 4-bytes boundary, it looks like it should have 40 bytes. typedef struct tagGESTUREINFO { UINT cbSize; DWORD dwFlags; DWORD dwID; HWND hwndTarget; POINTS ptsLocation; DWORD dwInstanceID; DWORD dwSequenceID; ULONGLONG ullArguments; UINT cbExtraArgs; } GESTUREINFO, *PGESTUREINFO; If it's related to 8-bytes boundary? if so is it relevant to any case where ULONGLONG appears structures? Thanks

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  • Extracting Window Contents

    - by user293392
    I need to extract window content if this is based on text, or at least the file path associated to that window. To-date, I have considered: 1. win32api 2. 3rd party libraries 3. wrapper classes However, I am not satisfied with the solutions. So any ideas how this can be done in a clean way?

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  • Installing unsigned x64 driver to work with libusbdotnet

    - by user216194
    Hi all- I am currently in a Windows 7 dev. environment working to get a device to initialize with libusbdotnet. The device (a USB mass storage device) connects and runs using the default USB-MASS Storage driver for Windows. I want to replace this driver with the one created by the .INF Wizard in libusbdotnet. The operating system is a 64-bit, and by default the INF Wizard produces this driver, but I am unable to selected it because it is "unsigned" I believed, when I go to "Pick from a list of drivers" and point to the directory where the newly created device drivers are. I have enabled "TEST MODE" using DESO but I'm still unable to select this file. Anyone familiar with libusbdotnet, or directing devices to work with a specific driver that is unsigned in Window (do I need the .inf file? or the .sys???) do you have any advice about where I'm going wrong? Thanks!

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  • What is the exact difference between MEM_RESERVE and MEM_COMMIT states?

    - by pj4533
    As I understand it MEM_RESERVE is actually 'free' memory, ie available to be used by my process, but just hasn't been allocated yet? Or it was previously allocated, but had since been freed? Specifically, see in my !address output below how I am nearly out of virtual address space (99900 KB free, 2307872 as MEM_PRIVATE. But the states shows that 44.75% of that is actually MEM_RESERVE. Does that mean it is actually free, in my process...but maybe fragmented? 0:000> !address -summary --------- PEB a8bd8000 not found ---- -------------------- Usage SUMMARY -------------------------- TotSize ( KB) Pct(Tots) Pct(Busy) Usage 259af000 ( 616124) : 22.29% 23.12% : RegionUsageIsVAD 618f000 ( 99900) : 03.61% 00.00% : RegionUsageFree 13e22000 ( 325768) : 11.78% 12.22% : RegionUsageImage 42c04000 ( 1093648) : 39.56% 41.04% : RegionUsageStack 42d000 ( 4276) : 00.15% 00.16% : RegionUsageTeb 2625d000 ( 625012) : 22.61% 23.45% : RegionUsageHeap 0 ( 0) : 00.00% 00.00% : RegionUsagePageHeap 0 ( 0) : 00.00% 00.00% : RegionUsagePeb 1000 ( 4) : 00.00% 00.00% : RegionUsageProcessParametrs 1000 ( 4) : 00.00% 00.00% : RegionUsageEnvironmentBlock Tot: a8bf0000 (2764736 KB) Busy: a2a61000 (2664836 KB) -------------------- Type SUMMARY -------------------------- TotSize ( KB) Pct(Tots) Usage 618f000 ( 99900) : 03.61% : <free> 13e22000 ( 325768) : 11.78% : MEM_IMAGE 1e77000 ( 31196) : 01.13% : MEM_MAPPED 8cdc8000 ( 2307872) : 83.48% : MEM_PRIVATE -------------------- State SUMMARY -------------------------- TotSize ( KB) Pct(Tots) Usage 57235000 ( 1427668) : 51.64% : MEM_COMMIT 618f000 ( 99900) : 03.61% : MEM_FREE 4b82c000 ( 1237168) : 44.75% : MEM_RESERVE Largest free region: Base 7e4a1000 - Size 000ff000 (1020 KB)

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  • GDI Image::Save returns Win32Error

    - by subbi
    Hi I am using GDI Image::Save Method to save the images to the file in my Application. I am getting Win32Error (7) status error in few instances with Vista 64 bit. It is working fine with vista 32 bits. and also this problem is coming randomly . Can you please suggest how to solve the problem Thanks in advance Regards Subbi Reddy

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  • File Open/Save Dialog

    - by Md. Rashim Uddin
    I am using my own Custom View to show the files and folders and also using a search box to jump to a specific folder. In that case How to send a message to File Open/Save dialog to enforce it to change the current displayed folder. e.g. If the dialog shows files and folders of current displaying folder "C:\", I want an API (or any piece of code) to enforce to change the current folder to "D:\"

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  • What's the proper response to WM_ENDSESSION with ENDSESSION_CLOSEAPP and wParam == FALSE?

    - by Marcus Lindblom
    According to the WM_ENDESSION docs, when lParam is ENDSESSION_CLOSEAPP and wParam is FALSE, "the application should not shut down". So, should I just ignore that and use the default response? What is it's purpose? (I'm listening to Windows events/messages in Qt (C++) to shutdown some launched processes, but that's just the context and shouldn't have any bearing here...)

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  • How can I use pywin32 with a virtualenv without having to include the host environment's site-packag

    - by jkp
    I'm working with PyInstaller under Python 2.6, which is only partially supported due to the mess MS have created with their manifest nonense which now affects Python since it is now MSVC8 compiled. The problem is that the manifest embedding support relies on the pywin32 extensions in order to build which is a pain because without including the host's site-packages folder when I create the virtualenv (kinda defeats the point in a build environment) I cannot find a way to install the required extensions so they are accessible to PyInstaller. Has anyone found a solution to this issue?

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  • A device specific alpha bitmap fails after switching resolutions in remote desktop

    - by Bob
    All my alpha bitmaps, created using CreateCompatibleBitmap(..), start to receive an error code 87 after someone signs in with Remote Desktop. I am assuming that this is because the resolution changed and I am using a device specific bitmap. I am wondering what the best route is to fix this issue without migrating to a device independent bitmap? Some options are: 1) Detect remote desktop change and flag all bitmaps to be reloaded (I have done this but it does not work as well as I would like). 2) Wait for error code 87 to happen on an alphablend image that previously worked, and then reload it (was going to try this next, im sure it will work, but a little hacky) 3) Detect random event such as WM_DISPLAYCHANGE or _ that tells me when I should do this (ie: a device change event I'm guessing, or maybe something more specific?) 4) _? Thanks for any help in advance

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  • Difference between WinMain and wWinMain

    - by Sherwood Hu
    The only difference is that Winmain takes char* for lpCmdLine parameter, while wWinMain takes wchar_t*. On Windows XP, if an application entry is WinMain, does Windows convert the command line from Unicode to Ansi and pass to the application? If the command line parameter must be in Unicode (for example, Unicode file name, conversion will cause some characters missing), does that mean that I must use wWinMain as the entry function?

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  • Enumerating File Handles in C#

    - by user293392
    I would like to know whether it is possible to enumerate file handles in c#, maybe using Win32API. This is easily done for window and process handles, but it seems that it is not possible for file handles. While some functionality is offered by NtQuerySystemInformation, this is being phased out and therefore it is not recommended to use such a method.

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  • Windows TCP connection - Still alive after process terminate

    - by Kartlee
    Hi People, I run a license server in linux and a process in Windows to check out tokens from it. It does a tcp socket connection to server to communicate and once the process in Windows is closed, the tokens are checked in back to server. But I see sometime the connection show as established in netstat output even when process in Windows is terminated. This happens when the process in Windows is running for a long time and terminate. It takes 2-3 hours for the connection to go away in neststat output. TCP BABDT350:4505 180.190.40.34:51847 ESTABLISHED 2832 [app.EXE] Can you guys tell me is this is a network stack configuration issue in Windows? Is it possible for the connection to go away once process terminate? Please let me know your answers to this.

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  • Restart a windows 7 machine programmatically.

    - by Andrew Bucknell
    I have a requirement to trigger a reboot on a windows7 machine programmatically. This is to support a scenario for customers where when they log out of an intenet kiosk machine the machine reboots. On XP this was achieved using WTSSystemShutdown but Im wondering if theres another way. Any pointers greatly appreciated.

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  • Wrong EXE file shown in start menu on Windows 7

    - by Zach
    Hello all, My software has two .EXE files : A.exe and B.exe. After installed on Window 7, the shortcut to A.exe is always shown in the start menu. (I don't know if 'Start menu' is the correct name or not, what I mean is the area above 'All Programs'). The menu in my computer looks like: Getting Started Windows Media Center Calculator Sticky Notes Snipping Tool Paint A <-- My program, and I want 'B' to be shown here All programs How can I make B.exe shown instead of A.exe? Best regards, Zach

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  • How do I subvert computer idle detection on Windows?

    - by sharptooth
    In order to detect user absence GetLastInputInfo() can be used. I want to make GetLastInputInfo() return that I've just used keyboard/mouse all the time - as I've been actively using the computer so that whoever relies on GetLastInputInfo() thinks I'm actively using the computer. Can I use any Windows API functions to achieve that?

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  • Detecting a Key Press Squashed by Another Application

    - by Eric Smith
    I have a WPF application I'm planning to use as an overlay for a DirectX game (specifically Bad Company 2). I'm using WM_KEYBOARD_LL hook to detect KeyDown events so I can bring my app to the foreground when a specific button is pressed. This works perfectly except for when the game is running (I've also noticed this problem with Window's "Chess Titans" so it may be a DirectX thing). As far as I can work out, when the game detects a keyboard press, it "eats" the event and doesn't pass the CallNextHookEx() method like it should, which would allow the key press message to be moved along to the next application in the queue. I'm wondering if there's any sort of work-around to this? It seems kind of unfair that a single application can just willy-nilly eat up messages like that. Thanks! :) Relevant MSDN documentation: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms644985%28VS.85%29.aspx

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  • how to get vendor id and product id of a plugged usb device on windows

    - by new
    Hello all, I am using Qt on windows platform. i want to get and display vendor id and product id of a plugged usb device from my local system. Below is my full source code to get the vendor id and product id from the usb device. when i run the my qt application it does not throw me any errors . so i plug the usb device into the system. but my print statement displays the result as below qDebug ()<DevicePath; i get the result as 0x4 Whether i have any implementation mistakes in my source code ? if so please guide me what i am doing wrong.. Have i missed out any other functions ? Is it possible to get the vendor id and product id from the usb device based on my source code .( my implementation of the code ) ? kindly find my source code below static GUID GUID_DEVINTERFACE_USB_DEVICE = { 0xA5DCBF10L, 0x6530, 0x11D2, { 0x90, 0x1F, 0x00, 0xC0, 0x4F, 0xB9, 0x51, 0xED } }; HANDLE hInfo = SetupDiGetClassDevs(&GUID_DEVINTERFACE_USB_DEVICE,NULL,NULL,DIGCF_PRESENT | DIGCF_INTERFACEDEVICE); if ( hInfo == INVALID_HANDLE_VALUE ) { qDebug ()<<"invalid"; } else { qDebug ()<<"valid handle"; SP_DEVINFO_DATA DeviceInfoData; DeviceInfoData.cbSize = sizeof(SP_DEVINFO_DATA); SP_INTERFACE_DEVICE_DATA Interface_Info; Interface_Info.cbSize = sizeof(Interface_Info); BYTE Buf[1024]; DWORD i; DWORD InterfaceNumber= 0; PSP_DEVICE_INTERFACE_DETAIL_DATA pspdidd = (PSP_DEVICE_INTERFACE_DETAIL_DATA)Buf; for (i=0;SetupDiEnumDeviceInfo(hInfo,i,&DeviceInfoData);i++) { DWORD DataT; LPTSTR buffer = NULL; DWORD buffersize = 0; while (!SetupDiGetDeviceRegistryProperty( hInfo,&DeviceInfoData,SPDRP_DEVICEDESC,&DataT,(PBYTE)buffer,buffersize,&buffersize)) { if (GetLastError() == ERROR_INSUFFICIENT_BUFFER) { // Change the buffer size. if (buffer) LocalFree(buffer); buffer = (LPTSTR)LocalAlloc(LPTR,buffersize); } else { // Insert error handling here. break; } qDebug ()<<(TEXT("Device Number %i is: %s\n"),i, buffer); if (buffer) LocalFree(buffer); if ( GetLastError()!=NO_ERROR && GetLastError()!=ERROR_NO_MORE_ITEMS ) { // Insert error handling here. qDebug ()<<"return false"; } InterfaceNumber = 0; // this just returns the first one, you can iterate on this if (SetupDiEnumDeviceInterfaces(hInfo,NULL,&GUID_DEVINTERFACE_USB_DEVICE,InterfaceNumber,&Interface_Info)) { printf("Got interface"); DWORD needed; pspdidd->cbSize = sizeof(*pspdidd); SP_DEVICE_INTERFACE_DETAIL_DATA *pDetData = NULL; DWORD dwDetDataSize = sizeof (SP_DEVICE_INTERFACE_DETAIL_DATA) + 256; SetupDiGetDeviceInterfaceDetail(hInfo, &Interface_Info, pDetData,dwDetDataSize, NULL,&DeviceInfoData); qDebug ()<<pDetData->DevicePath; //qDebug ()<<QString::fromWCharArray(pDetData->DevicePath); } else { printf("\nNo interface"); //ErrorExit((LPTSTR) "SetupDiEnumDeviceInterfaces"); if ( GetLastError() == ERROR_NO_MORE_ITEMS) printf(", since there are no more items found."); else printf(", unknown reason."); } // Cleanup SetupDiDestroyDeviceInfoList(hInfo); qDebug ()<<"return true"; } } }

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  • Creating a service (SERVICE_ACCEPT_SESSIONCHANGE)

    - by Ron
    Hi there, I am trying to create a service following the example documented in the link below: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb540475(v=VS.85).aspx What I am interested in is to be able to catch user "lock" and "unlock" workstation events. Using the code on from the example provided, I modified the following: Line 15: Original: VOID WINAPI SvcCtrlHandler( DWORD ); Modified: DWORD WINAPI SvcCtrlHandler( DWORD, DWORD, LPVOID, LPVOID ); Line 141: Original: gSvcStatusHandle = RegisterServiceCtrlHandler( SVCNAME, SvcCtrlHandler); Modified: gSvcStatusHandle = RegisterServiceCtrlHandlerEx( SVCNAME, SvcCtrlHandler, NULL); Line 244: Original: SvcStatus.dwControlsAccepted = SERVICE_ACCEPT_STOP; Modified: gSvcStatus.dwControlsAccepted = SERVICE_ACCEPT_STOP|SERVICE_ACCEPT_SESSIONCHANGE; Line 266: Original: VOID WINAPI SvcCtrlHandler( DWORD dwCtrl ) { // Handle the requested control code. switch(dwCtrl) { case SERVICE_CONTROL_STOP: ReportSvcStatus(SERVICE_STOP_PENDING, NO_ERROR, 0); // Signal the service to stop. SetEvent(ghSvcStopEvent); ReportSvcStatus(gSvcStatus.dwCurrentState, NO_ERROR, 0); return; case SERVICE_CONTROL_INTERROGATE: break; default: break; } }` Modified: DWORD WINAPI SvcCtrlHandler( DWORD dwControl, DWORD dwEventType, LPVOID lpEventData, LPVOID lpContext ) { DWORD dwErrorCode = NO_ERROR; switch(dwControl) { case SERVICE_CONTROL_STOP: ReportSvcStatus(SERVICE_STOP_PENDING, NO_ERROR, 0); // Signal the service to stop. SetEvent(ghSvcStopEvent); ReportSvcStatus(gSvcStatus.dwCurrentState, NO_ERROR, 0); break; case SERVICE_CONTROL_INTERROGATE: break; case SERVICE_CONTROL_SESSIONCHANGE: ReportSvcStatus(gSvcStatus.dwCurrentState, NO_ERROR, 0); break; default: break; } return dwErrorCode; } With the changes above, my service compiled and install fine. But when I try to start my service on my Windows 2000 machine, it does not start properly (it will be stuck on the "starting" status) Can anyone please advise? Thank you in advance, Ron

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  • Get Hardware Information for HWs that is not installed

    - by Isaac
    I am pretty sure how to retrieve hardware information with WMI classes. but WMIs have a big limitation: They Just can get information for installed hardwares. I need to retrieve information about CPU (model,speed,etc..),Video Card, Sound Card, USB Ports, etc. I found a really good software (HWiNFO) that can do this even the drivers for hardware parts is not installed. It seems that HWiNFO uses a internal database to give a name for each hardware part. So is there any free library/DLL/component that can do this in Windows XP or higher Note: Although HWiNFO SDK seems good, it's not free. So it doesn't exist! ;) I need a free library.

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  • WINE error when running windows application

    - by Colen
    Hello, A user reports that one of our applications doesn't work under WINE. It runs until he proceeds past a certain form, and then freezes. WINE gives the following output: ~/.wine/drive_c/HeroLab$ wine HeroLab.exe fixme:wininet:InternetSetOptionW Option INTERNET_OPTION_CONNECT_TIMEOUT (30000): STUB fixme:wininet:InternetSetOptionW INTERNET_OPTION_SEND/RECEIVE_TIMEOUT 30000 fixme:wininet:InternetSetOptionW Option INTERNET_OPTION_CONNECT_TIMEOUT (30000): STUB fixme:wininet:InternetSetOptionW INTERNET_OPTION_SEND/RECEIVE_TIMEOUT 30000 fixme:wininet:InternetSetOptionW Option INTERNET_OPTION_CONNECT_TIMEOUT (30000): STUB fixme:wininet:HTTPREQ_QueryOption Semi-STUB INTERNET_OPTION_SECURITY_FLAGS: 0 fixme:wininet:InternetSetOptionW Option INTERNET_OPTION_SECURITY_FLAGS; STUB fixme:wininet:InternetSetOptionW Option INTERNET_OPTION_CONNECT_TIMEOUT (30000): STUB fixme:wininet:InternetSetOptionW INTERNET_OPTION_SEND/RECEIVE_TIMEOUT 30000 fixme:wininet:InternetSetOptionW Option INTERNET_OPTION_CONNECT_TIMEOUT (30000): STUB fixme:wininet:InternetSetOptionW INTERNET_OPTION_SEND/RECEIVE_TIMEOUT 30000 fixme:wininet:InternetSetOptionW Option INTERNET_OPTION_CONNECT_TIMEOUT (30000): STUB fixme:wininet:InternetSetOptionW Option INTERNET_OPTION_CONNECT_TIMEOUT (30000): STUB fixme:wininet:InternetSetOptionW INTERNET_OPTION_SEND/RECEIVE_TIMEOUT 30000 fixme:wininet:InternetSetOptionW Option INTERNET_OPTION_CONNECT_TIMEOUT (30000): STUB fixme:wininet:InternetSetOptionW INTERNET_OPTION_SEND/RECEIVE_TIMEOUT 30000 fixme:wininet:InternetSetOptionW Option INTERNET_OPTION_CONNECT_TIMEOUT (30000): STUB fixme:bitmap:CreateBitmapIndirect planes = 0 fixme:bitmap:CreateBitmapIndirect planes = 0 fixme:bitmap:CreateBitmapIndirect planes = 0 fixme:bitmap:CreateBitmapIndirect planes = 0 fixme:bitmap:CreateBitmapIndirect planes = 0 fixme:bitmap:CreateBitmapIndirect planes = 0 fixme:bitmap:CreateBitmapIndirect planes = 0 fixme:bitmap:CreateBitmapIndirect planes = 0 fixme:bitmap:CreateBitmapIndirect planes = 0 fixme:bitmap:CreateBitmapIndirect planes = 0 fixme:bitmap:CreateBitmapIndirect planes = 0 Can anyone explain these messages to me? I assume they are messages from WINE reporting that we are calling functions in ways that WINE doesn't support, but our code doesn't call CreateBitmapIndirect at all. How can we locate the source of this problem, and fix our app so it runs under WINE? Thanks.

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  • Using ManagementObject to retrieve a single WMI property

    - by Jesse
    This probably isn't the best way, but I am currently retrieving the amount of RAM on a machine using: manageObjSearch.Query = new ObjectQuery("SELECT TotalVisibleMemorySize FROM Win32_OperatingSystem"); manageObjCol = manageObjSearch.Get(); foreach (ManagementObject mo in manageObjCol) sizeInKilobytes = Convert.ToInt64(mo["TotalVisibleMemorySize"]); It works well and good, but I feel I could be doing this more directly and without a foreach over a single element, but I can't figure out how to index a ManagementObjectCollection I want to do something like this: ManagementObject mo = new ManagementObject("Win32_OperatingSystem.TotalVisibleMemorySize") mo.Get(); Console.WriteLine(mo["TotalVisibleMemorySize"].ToString()) or maybe even something like ManagementClass mc = new ManagementClass("Win32_OperatingSystem"); Console.WriteLine(mc.GetPropertyValue("TotalVisibleMemorySize").ToString()); I just can't seem to figure it out. Any ideas?

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  • Exception_Record in python2.5 problem

    - by amir
    I'm using Python2.5 & the following code produce 2 errors. Can any body help me? class EXCEPTION_RECORD(Structure): _fields_ = [ ("ExceptionCode", DWORD), ("ExceptionFlags", DWORD), ("ExceptionRecord", POINTER(EXCEPTION_RECORD)), ("ExceptionAddress", LPVOID), ("NumberParameters", DWORD), ("ExceptionInformation", ULONG_PTR * EXCEPTION_MAXIMUM_PARAMETERS)] Python Error: Traceback (most recent call last): File "E:\Python25\my_debugger_defines.py", line 70, in <module> class EXCEPTION_RECORD(Structure): File "E:\Python25\my_debugger_defines.py", line 74, in EXCEPTION_RECORD ("ExceptionRecord", POINTER(EXCEPTION_RECORD)), NameError: name 'EXCEPTION_RECORD' is not defined Microsoft Document: The EXCEPTION_RECORD structure describes an exception. typedef struct _EXCEPTION_RECORD { // exr DWORD ExceptionCode; DWORD ExceptionFlags; struct _EXCEPTION_RECORD *ExceptionRecord; PVOID ExceptionAddress; DWORD NumberParameters; DWORD ExceptionInformation[EXCEPTION_MAXIMUM_PARAMETERS]; } EXCEPTION_RECORD; Thanks in advance

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  • Why does my call to Activator.CreateInstance intermittently fail?

    - by Daniel Stutzbach
    I'm using the following code to access the Windows Explorer Shell's band site service: Guid GUID_TrayBandSiteService = new Guid(0xF60AD0A0, 0xE5E1, 0x45cb, 0xB5, 0x1A, 0xE1, 0x5B, 0x9F, 0x8B, 0x29, 0x34); Type shellTrayBandSiteService = Type.GetTypeFromCLSID(GUID_TrayBandSiteService, true); site = Activator.CreateInstance(shellTrayBandSiteService) as IBandSite; Mostly, it works great. A very small percentage of the time (less than 1%), the call to Activator.CreateInstance throws the following exception: System.Runtime.InteropServices.COMException (0x80040154): Retrieving the COM class factory for component with CLSID {F60AD0A0-E5E1-45CB-B51A-E15B9F8B2934} failed due to the following error: 80040154. at System.RuntimeTypeHandle.CreateInstance(RuntimeType type, Boolean publicOnly, Boolean noCheck, Boolean& canBeCached, RuntimeMethodHandle& ctor, Boolean& bNeedSecurityCheck) at System.RuntimeType.CreateInstanceSlow(Boolean publicOnly, Boolean fillCache) at System.RuntimeType.CreateInstanceImpl(Boolean publicOnly, Boolean skipVisibilityChecks, Boolean fillCache) at System.Activator.CreateInstance(Type type, Boolean nonPublic) I've looked up the error code, and it appears to indicate that the service isn't registered. That's nonsense in my case, since I'm trying to access a service provided by the operating system (explorer.exe, to be specific). I'm stumped. What might cause Activator.CreateInstance fail, but only rarely?

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