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DME turns off DragFullWindows
As has been documented elsewhere, the Dell Media Experience utility turns off the option that is normally controlled via Control Panel, Display, Appearance, Effects, "Show window contents while dragging". I wrote a VB.Net program that you can put in your Startup group that will turn the option back on. Use at your own risk since Dell obviously believes that DME can have problems if the option is on. So far, I haven't had any problems myself. I can make this program available to users here if I could figure out how to upload it. I'm willing to make both the executable and the source code available. The program uses the
SystemParametersInfo API function.
- Since I know you have programming experience (more than me anyway) how easily do you think you could write a program that would be launched instead of DME, which: 1. Turned off DragFullWindow; 2. Launched DME; and 3. Turned DragFullWindow back on when DME is exited and then close itself. Possible?
I suspect that would be fairly easy to do. I wrote my program in VB.Net. It's easy enough to spawn another program from a VB.Net program. Usually it's easy to watch it and wait for it to end as well. If the spawned program spawns another program itself and then quits, it becomes more complicated. I doubt that DME does that.
Having said all that, I must say that I haven't experienced any problems watching DVDs on my Dimension 8300 with the NVIDIA GeForce FX 5200 with DragFullWindows turned on. I wonder if the problem that DME has is specific to a particular video card or even a specific driver for a specific card. If so, Dell should test for that combination and otherwise not touch the DragFullWindows setting unless it has to. Even better, fix the underlying problem!
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Posted July 8th, 2004 14:00
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