System wide shell hook

Setting System wide Shell hook. Sample application search for all shell event and write them into log. When new window created, activated, destroyed, language locale change, task manager activated - you'll receive notification.

Original Author: Ark

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All docs say that it's impossible to set system wide hook from VB without standard dll. Here it is! Using undocumented shell32 function calling by ordinal (thanks to James Holderness http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/4942/contents.html for his great job for finding this and many other functions).Sample application search for all shell event and write them into log. When new window created, activated, destroyed, language locale change, task manager activated - you'll receive notification.

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Posted: 2002-06-01
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