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    Desktop Text Display

    Hi Buho, Sorry I got your name wrong - my apologies - also to Aaron. Thank you for your help but I can see I'll have to do a bit more work on this :) Any pop up window would be closed by a timer only - no option for user action. I will need to create another post in the Windows API forum as I...
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    Desktop Text Display

    Hi Aaron, thanks again for the additional help, I am having difficulty clearing the text as you say - if an additional windows is open, the text could display in part on one window and the rest on the desktop - so I don't know what to select for the background :( Is there a way to force a screen...
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    Desktop Text Display

    Hi Aaron, thanks again for the information, the text displays on top of whatever window is present at the selected position - which is good enough for me. Will take your advice about clearing the text. Kind regards Robert
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    Desktop Text Display

    Hi Aaron, thanks very much for your post, it does exactly what I want, but as I have not used Windows API's before , could you help me clear the text after it displays and also I read something in the Delphi help that says HDC should be freed - how do I do that ? Kind Regards Robert (in...
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    Desktop Text Display

    Hi Clive, I am using Delphi 4 and do not want to use a form Thanks
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    Desktop Text Display

    Hello, I would like to display a line of text from a list on the desktop, one line at a time with the option to choose the position of the text on the desktop. The text must be 'always on top' without any background, border, form, etc just the text itself. I would aslo like to change the...
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    Excess Kernel processor useage

    Hi Vacunita, tried that and also stopped everything I thought I could to no avail. But now the problem seems to have "gone away" :) since I changed the AV program I was using. I had used this particular AV for years on Win 98 and have never had any problems before so did not suspect it ! After...
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    Excess Kernel processor useage

    Thanks Wolluf and Smitee for your answers above, but there are no programs running at all, that's the problem. There are the usual things loaded at startup which can be viewed with msconfig as Wolluf suggested and in addition theres a printer control program for a Lexmark X85 printer and MS...
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    Excess Kernel processor useage

    Hi, I have just purchased a new hard disc and installed Windows ME from scratch followed by all the other applications I use - too many to list here. The problem now is that using system monitor, I see that the Kernel processor usage is Always at least 50% but mostly 80% is there any way to...
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    What drivers for PCI System Management Bus ?

    Hi Ed, Many thanks for the information - it solved the problem Regards Robert
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    What drivers for PCI System Management Bus ?

    In Device manager (Win 98) I have a yellow question mark over "other devices" and below this I have the message "PCI System Management Bus" When clicking properties I am informed the drivers are not loaded for this device (Code 28). The PC is a Dell Optiplex GX100 and I can't find anything on...
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    Call HTML Help from Delphi

    Hello WhosrDaddy, Thank you very much for all the information - more than enought to keep me busy for a while :) Best Regards Robert
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    Call HTML Help from Delphi

    Hello WhosrDaddy, Thank you very much for the reply, more than enough to keep me going :) Best Regards Robert
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    Call HTML Help from Delphi

    I have used Help&manual to create help files for my project. I can call the winhelp files Ok but don't know how to call the HTML help file (*.chm) from within Delphi can anyone help please. Thanks MMD
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    TMS AdvStringGrid

    Hi Lou, Thanks for the reply I store the data for this grid in a text file. I do not want to sort the groups, I want them to remain where they are in the grid, but I do want to sort on the salary within a group without affecting the display or position in the grid of the sorted group or any...
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