Add device manager to system control panel applet?

samwise52 · Post by **samwise52** » Tue May 01, 2007 4:02 pm

[09:50] <+encoded> hey ged, why don't you add devmgr to the corresponding system.cpl button? or even administrative tools ?
[09:51] <@GedMurphy> because it's a hack
[09:51] <+encoded> so is most of ros
[09:51] <@Fireball> lol
[09:51] <@GedMurphy> I can do it if people wish

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counting_pine · Post by **counting_pine** » Tue May 01, 2007 4:56 pm

Not knowing anything about the state of ROS' device manager, I will refrain from voting.

dreams · Post by **dreams** » Tue May 01, 2007 5:20 pm

counting_pine wrote:Not knowing anything about the state of ROS' device manager, I will refrain from voting.

You can start it by running c:\reactos\system32\devmgmt.exe

btw, what is hackish about it?

Post by **Ged** » Tue May 01, 2007 5:35 pm

dreams wrote:btw, what is hackish about it?

hitting that button should load devmgr.dll and call DeviceManager_ExecuteW. This in turn will load mmc.exe which will snap in the device manager code which should be located in devmgr.dll.

We don't have mmc at the moment, so I wrote devmgmt.exe as a standalone application until then.

The 'hack' would be; making that button do something it wouldn't do on a Windows system, i.e. open devmgmt.exe (which doesn't actually exist in Winows)
This would break that button for the cpl app in Windows (without some trickery)

dreams · Post by **dreams** » Tue May 01, 2007 5:48 pm

ok, thanks for the explanation. i must say that it might not be a good idea then

Post by **Ged** » Tue May 01, 2007 5:58 pm

btw, the hack would be reversed when mmc was implemented.

Post by **Ged** » Tue May 01, 2007 6:32 pm

power to the forums

http://svn.reactos.org/svn/reactos?view ... sion=26616

samwise52 · Post by **samwise52** » Tue May 01, 2007 6:34 pm

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revision 26616, Tue May 1 16:25:26 2007 UTC
quick hack to make sysdm.cpl open our standalone device manager
it's a democracy : http://www.reactos.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=3835

ged expertly implemented the hack #ifdefing out the offending code for windows but leaving it on for ros, when mmc is implemented this won't be necesary.

You can all still vote if you like... anyway enjoy the device manager!

mf · Post by mf » Tue May 01, 2007 10:15 pm

Ged wrote:The 'hack' would be; making that button do something it wouldn't do on a Windows system, i.e. open devmgmt.exe (which doesn't actually exist in Winows)
This would break that button for the cpl app in Windows (without some trickery)

Well, I don't know if you've actually tried putting, say, our (old) winlogon into a winXP, or.. our csrss into a win2k, but... Those are kept together with hacks like that as well, and obviously don't work in Windows