Get rid of the lock screen
In an office environment a lock screen is required, but not so much on your home machine.
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Remove Bing Search from Windows Search
By default, the built-in Windows Search function also includes search results acquired from Bing Search. If you would rather not have Bing results mixed in with your local search results, follow these steps.
Jaro-Winkler String Comparison
The Jaro-Winkler distance (Winkler, 1990) is a measure of similarity between two strings.
Encode/Decode Quoted Printable
Very fast function to encode or decode Quoted-Printable.
Sort Array and Remove Duplicates
The attached code is a demonstration of how to remove duplicates from a string array as quickly as possible.
Get Window Handlle from Process ID
A module for retrieving the handle number (hWnd) of a window providing only the process id number (PID). This code is seeking handles that match the given PID and returns the hanlde that refers to a visible window. But, since not all the processes running are windowed or some processes may have multiple windows, may not work for… Read More »
Retrieve Info for a File in VB6
This function will retrieve the version number, product name, original program name, etc.
Simple Wordwrap Function
I hope that this is the shortest and easiest wordwrap-function in vb you have ever seen, that you enjoy it and use it in all your projects.
Convert TXT file to Executable EXE
This code convert a TXT file to EXE file. When you convert the file start the EXE and the old file will be typed (like TYPE command) This is really great code
This will allow you to compare times.
I noticed that there is a ‘Date’ type in VB, but no ‘Time’ type. So if you want to compare Dates you are fine, but for Time comparisons you are a bit stuffed. This is very simple and will allow you to convert times into numbers so that you can make easy comparisons with them.