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wm_close.exe
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tool to close any program as long as it responds to the wm_close API call,
to use it call it with the window class or window name as parameter, it will
1st try to locate a window wich has the given parameter as class name, if that
fails it will try to locate a window with the given parameter as name.


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mbm5msg.exe
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tool to send a message to mbm, starting it with one of the switches below will
make it send that message to mbm.

0  WM_WRITELH
1  WM_OPENSETTINGS
2  WM_OPENDASHBOARD
3  WM_OPENHELP
4  WM_CLOSEMBM
5  WM_CLOSEOSD
6  WM_OPENOSD
7  WM_DUMPISA
8  WM_DUMPSMB
9  WM_DUMPPCI
10 WM_VIADUMP


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mbmstarter.dll
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This may ONLY be distributed and used by programs that are fully FREEWARE,
you are NOT ALLOWED to use this DLL with shareware, payware or commercial programs.

now that the legal part is out of the way, with this dll you can launch
the mbm.dll without using mbm, of course you must have configured mbm correctly
if you want this to work correctly.  Once the mbm.dll is running you freeware
program can access the sharedmemory like normal


the delphi code to start the dll is like this:

type
  TStartDLL = function : Integer; stdcall;
  TStopDLL  = function : Integer; stdcall;

var
  Form1: TForm1;
  CStartDLL : TStartDLL;
  CStopDLL  : TStopDLL;
  DLLHandle : THandle;

implementation

{$R *.DFM}

procedure TForm1.Button1Click(Sender: TObject);
var
  X       : Integer;
begin
  if DLLHandle=0 then
  begin
    DLLHandle:=LoadLibrary(PChar(ExtractFilePath(ParamStr(0))+'MBMStarter.dll'));
    if DLLHandle <> 0 then
    begin
      @CStartDLL:=GetProcAddress(DLLHandle, 'Start');
      X:=CStartDLL;
      if X <> 1 then Showmessage('Error Starting MBM.DLL, Error : '+IntToStr(X))
                else Showmessage('MBM.DLL Started') ;
    end
    else Showmessage('Error Loading StarterDLL');
  end;
end;

procedure TForm1.Button2Click(Sender: TObject);
begin
  if DLLHandle<>0 then
  begin
    @CStopDLL:=GetProcAddress(DLLHandle, 'Stop');
    CStopDLL;
    FreeLibrary(DLLHandle);
    DLLHandle:=0;
    Showmessage('Starter DLL unloaded');
  end;
end;

the mbm5starter.dll will always created a sub dir called dll and copy the mbm.dll into
this directory, this is needs to be done and can not be avoided

as of version > 5.3.5.0 there are 2 new function:

function SetPrio(X : Byte) : Boolean; stdcall;
function SendPath(Path : Pchar) : Boolean;

With SetPrio you can increase the priority of the timer loop in the dll, use the following
table:

0: Idle
1: Lowest
2: Lower
3: Normal
4: Higher
5: Highest
6: TimeCritical

With SendPath you can send a new path to the dll in case it has no access to HKEY_CURRENT_USER,
if you get a result of 0 back then this is your problem, send your new path BEFORE you do the
start function.  The path should contain the base directory of MBM


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mbm 5.ini
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This is a clean version of the MBM 5.ini file, if you ever get into troubles then
simply close mbm and copy this OVER the version in the /data directory and you 
can start clean.


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uninstall problems.bat
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If your having errors uninstalling which included INSTALL.LOG then 
please run this batch file, it should start the uninstaller without
problems