Just one day until the big turkey day and so I thought I would add a little usefull info.  If you have Windows XP and wish you could un-install the Windows Messenger that comes installed then you can give thanks for MS just hidden the uninstall for your eyes and not making it impossible. Here is how to do it:

Go to you %WinDir%\INF ( and you can cut and paste that and it will go to the directory no matter what the name of  the name of your windwos dir is, you can do that with all the enviorment varaibles that are paths, windows will substiture the path in for you so  %CommonProgramFiles% will get you to you program files directory you have set, that is a nice trick also) .
Locate the file named SYSOC.INF and open it in a text editor ( double-click on it should open it in your default text editor). Locate the line that looks exeactly like this:
    msmsgs=msgrocm.dll,OcEntry,msmsgs.inf,hide,7
and delete the word hide ( leave the commas) so you should end up with
   msmsgs=msgrocm.dll,OcEntry,msmsgs.inf,,7
and then save it. Now when you go to the Control Panel Add/Remove Windows Components you will find a option to remove Windows Messenger.

Was reading a free mag at work and saw this netowrk camera. It is pretty cool, http://www.mobotix.com/ , check them out.

Here is a look at a cool new laptop with a 3-d screen from Sharp , http://www.sharpsystems.com/products/pc_notebooks/actius/rd/3d/  , and then check out sharps3d site at http://www.sharp3d.com/  and see what PC Mag says http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,4149,1389311,00.asp

Well I are returned from COMDEX, If you can call it COMDEX. I did the whole show in one day and that means it was not much there, of course IBM and HP tried to do there own show at Mandalay Bay and it was even more of a joke, there whole show was about the size of Microsoft's booth at COMDEX.  There were some nice changes since I went last about 4 years ago, shuttle buses that where free to and from the hotels on the strip.  That was nice. 

I found a cool site for airplane tracking, http://www.thetrip.com/trs/cheaptickets/galileo_flight_tracker/galileo_home.xsl , it will tell you the altitude , the speed and where the plane is located and if you want can see it on a map with the the plane moving. How cool is that.

Dun a cool computer site, has some cool stuff and the proces look to be good, http://www.pctoys.com

Eddie, found this cool character image that is also a menu, links for the web site,  check it out http://www.fatal-design.com/   use the status bar to tell what each line is linked to.  way cool

This is a link to a page that has some good vb6 modules to do stuff, http://www.thevbzone.com/s_modules.htm , like to convert image types use a freeimage.dll .

The lasted trend I hear is bluejacking, bluetooth is not secure is the main thing to get out of this, http://www.bluejackq.com/

He is some code that will shell a applicataion from vb6 and wait for it to close. you can create a new form and and a command button and then paste this code in to the form and then get if it a try:
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Private Declare Function OpenProcess Lib "kernel32" (ByVal dwDesiredAccess As Long, ByVal bInheritHandle As Long, ByVal dwProcessId As Long) As Long
Private Declare Function GetExitCodeProcess Lib "kernel32" (ByVal hProcess As Long, lpExitCode As Long) As Long
Private Declare Function CloseHandle Lib "kernel32" (ByVal hObject As Long) As Long
Private Const STILL_ACTIVE As Long = &H103
Private Const PROCESS_QUERY_INFORMATION As Long = &H400

Private Sub Command1_Click()
   Dim ProcessId As Long
   Dim hProcess As Long
   Dim ExitCode As Long

   ProcessId = Shell("notepad.exe", vbNormalFocus)
   hProcess = OpenProcess(PROCESS_QUERY_INFORMATION, 0, ProcessId)
   Command1.Enabled = False 'delete this line it is for a test app with a button called command1
   Do
      Call GetExitCodeProcess(hProcess, ExitCode)
      DoEvents
   Loop While (ExitCode = STILL_ACTIVE)
   Command1.Enabled = True  'delete this line it is for a test app with a button called command1
   Call CloseHandle(hProcess)
End Sub

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if you want to slow do the process cycles add a sleep(xx) to the do loop so it looks like this
 Do
      Call GetExitCodeProcess(hProcess, ExitCode)
       Sleep(1000) 'sleep for1 seconds
      DoEvents
   Loop While (ExitCode = STILL_ACTIVE)
 and and this api declareation to
Private Declare Sub Sleep Lib "kernel32" Alias "Sleep" (ByVal dwMilliseconds As Long)

This will make your app more cpu friendly, since the do loop will make the cpu make out and the sleep will correct that.