How to change Active Network in Windows 10

Just upgraded to Windows 10 on work computer. We have a network printer and it lets everyone scan documents to their computer, but after upgrading, it will not do this anymore and my guess is that the «Network» is a «Private network» and not a «Work network» as it was in Windows 7.

How do I solve this network status?

On the printer it asks for the login and password info for the computer, I changed nothing when I upgraded, but it is wrong.

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Thank you for posting your query in Microsoft Community.

I understand your concern, and we in Community will try to help you in the best possible way we can.

Before I can assist you with your issue, I would like you to answer a few questions stated below:

1. Did you update the printer drivers?

2. Did you login through a Microsoft Account or Local Account?

3. Have you tried any troubleshooting step to fix this issue?

I would suggest that you try changing the options below from your Microsoft Account and check if issue persist.

1.Open the Network and Sharing Center.

2. Check if «File and Printer Sharing» is on.

3.Check if Password protected sharing is on or off.

You can also check and change the option from «Private to «Work» and see it that helps.

Your reply is very important for us to ensure a proper resolution. Please get back to us with the above information in order to assist you accordingly.

For further assistance, you can post your query in Microsoft Community.

How to use SetWinEventHook() function to get Active Window changed message

I have been working on a project which needs to detect current active window and get the active window title continuously. Can anyone explain me how to use SetWinEventHook() function to get Active Window changed message. [ i used GetForegroundWindow() function with a timer to get the active window. That approach is not very accurate because of the timer. So i need to use it with SetWinEventHook() function. can someone explain me how to do that? ]

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I have found the solution. EVENT_SYSTEM_FOREGROUND Event is the missing piece. The system sends this event even if the foreground window has changed to another window. We can use this event to get the current active window.

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How to change or rename Active Network Profile Name in Windows 10

If you are using a laptop for your daily needs and you travel along with your laptop and connect to different Networks daily, which might become confusing for you in the Networks and Sharing center while you are diagnosing some issue with your network devices. Networking is one of the toughest parts especially since you are dealing with a number of devices and connections which might have same SSID’s. Most of the time Windows just name the connections as Local Area Network 1, or just Network 1, Network 5, Network 6 which might be difficult to figure out which is of your Office, which is of your Home, your friend’s home, etc.

Today we will show you how to change or rename the network profile names in Windows 10/8/7; there are two methods to do the same. The first one happens to be via Registry Editor and the second one happens to be via Local Security Policy Editor.

Rename or Change Active Network Profile Name

Via Registry Editor

Run regedit to launch the Registry Editor.

Head to the following location in the Registry Editor:

If you see several different GUIDs then you will have to click on each one of them and select the ProfileName string value. In my case above you will see AndroidAP 2.

To change the Profile Name with the one you want to double-click on the ProfileName string value and change its value to the one you want.

Once you follow all the above steps, the Network name will be changed to the one you needed.

Via Local Security Policy

If your Windows version ships with the Local Group or Security Policy Editor, then you may Run secpol.msc to launch the Local Security Policy Editor.

Click on the Network List Manager Policies in the left panel.

You will get all the different Network Names in the right pane. Double-click on the one whose name you want to change.

In the Properties window that opens, select Name and write the name you want.

Close the Local Security Policy once you are done.

Changing Network name might include changing the network name to one with a simple meaning like, College Wifi, Coaching Wifi, Home Wifi, Mobile Wifi, Café Wifi, Bus Wifi which will make it simple for you to connect with them.

Date: February 6, 2018 Tags: Network, Tips

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Getting notification when active window changes

I am trying to get my program to get the current active window title when the focus is changed. I have the following CALLBACK:

And I am trying to hook WH_CBT as follows:

Maybe I am just stupid but it isn’t working as intended, anyone have an idea why?

EDIT: It doesn’t seem like the program is detecting the window changes at all, I have tried changing the code to this to no avail:

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You are not handling the WH_CBT callback correctly.

The code that the hook procedure uses to determine how to process the message. If nCode is less than zero, the hook procedure must pass the message to the CallNextHookEx function without further processing and should return the value returned by CallNextHookEx . This parameter can be one of the following values.

HCBT_SETFOCUS
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A window is about to receive the keyboard focus.

Depends on the nCode parameter. For details, see the following Remarks section.

Depends on the nCode parameter. For details, see the following Remarks section.

The following table describes the wParam and lParam parameters for each HCBT_ hook code.

HCBT_SETFOCUS
wParam: Specifies the handle to the window gaining the keyboard focus.
lParam: Specifies the handle to the window losing the keyboard focus.

You are looking for the HCBT_SETFOCUS value in the wrong parameter. You are also retrieving the title of the wrong window, since the input focus has not actually switched windows yet.

Your callback should look more like this instead (assuming your callback is implemented in a DLL, which is required to detect global events, which also means you need separate 32bit and 64bit DLLs on a 64bit system. This is explained in the SetWindowsHookEx() documentation):

That being said, you should consider using SetWinEventHook() instead, which does not have the DLL requirement if you use the hook «out-of-context»:

The callback function is not mapped into the address space of the process that generates the event. Because the hook function is called across process boundaries, the system must queue events. Although this method is asynchronous, events are guaranteed to be in sequential order. For more information, see Out-of-Context Hook Functions.

An object has received the keyboard focus. The system sends this event for the following user interface elements: list-view control, menu bar, pop-up menu, switch window, tab control, tree view control, and window object. Server applications send this event for their accessible objects.

The hwnd parameter of the WinEventProc callback function identifies the window that receives the keyboard focus.

Foreground Vs Active window

In Windows, what is the difference between foreground and active window? To be specific, under what circumstances can a foreground window not be an active window? If the 2 terms are referring to the same concept why there’re 2 terms.

The msdn documentation here mentions «clicking a window, or by using the ALT + TAB or ALT + ESC key combination» makes a window active as well as foreground. There is nothing explicitly about the difference between the 2 terms.Check MSDN.

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The active window (the result of GetActiveWindow() ) is the window attached to the calling thread that gets input. The foreground window (the result of of GetForegroundWindow() ) is the window that’s currently getting input regardless of its relationship to the calling thread. The active window is essentially localized to your application; the foreground window is global to the system.

For example, if a window belonging to another process is the foreground, calling GetActiveWindow() from within your own process will return NULL .

I believe that it’s true that being the foreground window implies being the active window, but the converse is not true. Also note that in modern Windows, applications generally cannot use SetForegroundWindow() to steal focus from another process (unless that process has explicitly given permission via AllowSetForegroundWindow ).

I find the description in MSDN a bit confusing as well but here is my revised take:

First a foreground and background window have nothing to do with active windows, it has to do with threading, see below. So it is technically possible to have background window as an active window however it is confusing and the system doesn’t do this for you, instead your app needs to call e.g. SetWindowPos to make the background window active.

The system can only have one active top-level window at a time, the system will activate the top-level window if you are working on a child window. All input is then directed to the active window and then normally passed to the child window.

An active window is the top-level window of the application with which the user is currently working. To allow the user to easily identify the active window, the system places it at the top of the z-order and changes the color of its title bar and border to the system-defined active window colors. Only a top-level window can be an active window. When the user is working with a child window, the system activates the top-level parent window associated with the child window.

Each process can have multiple threads of execution, and each thread can create windows. The thread that created the window with which the user is currently working is called the foreground thread, and the window is called the foreground window. All other threads are background threads, and the windows created by background threads are called background windows.