I have a class for my Windows application which controls the panel brightness.

I class for my Windows app which controls the panel brightness.

This application opens a window (no title bar or border) and types 012 based on keyboard input.
For some reason after compiling using g++, it takes 6-7 seconds to run (infact the icon of the executable takes 3-4 seconds to load after compiling, I have never seen that happen). The entire pc lags and the task manager also doesn’t show anything like memory leak or high cpu usage or anything.

This application opens a window (no title bar or border) and types 012 based on keyboard input.
For some reason after compiling using g++, it takes 6-7 seconds to run (infact the icon of the executable takes 3-4 seconds to load after compiling, I have never seen that happen). The entire pc lags and the task manager also doesn’t show anything like memory leak or high cpu usage or anything.

I’m trying to implement transparency for the taskbar (Shell_TrayWnd) in Windows, similar to the functionality that TranslucentTB has. However, in my implementation, the problem is that elements such as the Start button, search box, and attached programs also become transparent, which is not what I expected.

I am trying to create a dialog such that it always opens in the middle of my application window. This is the usual behaviour for a dialog created with something like MessageBox(). However, if the application window is moved before the dialog is opened, the dialog opens in the middle of where the window WAS and not where it is now. So something behind the scenes is obviously caching the position of the window.

I want to use the windows api to launch other programs (.exe, .url, .lnk) on my computer, so I use the following to do so

The app tracks directory change which works fine for normal directories but for network mapped drives app gets event that directory has changed without any real change. That is happening just after starting tracking the drive.

I’m attempting to impersonate the system account in my application by calling the following functions: OpenProcess() to winlogon.exe, OpenProcessToken(), DuplicateTokenEx(), and ImpersonateLoggedOnUser(). However, when I execute this code, I encounter error 1314.

Within a x32 platform specific compiled exe, I need to get the path for a process (using a process id) without requiring elevated/admin rights. From my understanding the only way to do this is through the undocumented Windows API NtQuerySystemInformation and SystemProcessIdInformation.