Conceal camera interface from user! how to notify exploere that new device is detached?

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hello all,

I writing an app to a PTP device, one of the requirment is to conceal the windows explorer default interface from user (in my computer and other places).

I try to "notify" the windows explorer that the ptp device has been disconnected but this doesn't work so I try to at least remove it visually.

In windows XP I success to remove the PTP icon from my computer using messaging and hooks ( send remove from list message to my computer window) as windows explore use sysListView32 and sysTreeView32 from the tree side.

In windows 7 I success to remove the PTP icon from the tree view but it looks windows 7 no longer use sysListView32 in windows explorer and instead it uses hwndDirectUI. which I fail to find a documentation or an example code that use it!

does anyone know how could I use this class? its implemented in dui70.dll, and I do have a detour API, all what I need to know is the of the func in this dll that "draw" the PTP icone so I can detour it .

backing to the orginal soultion, does any one know how could I send a "fake" notification to explorer that the ptp device has been detached? this is the preferred solution than start removing the icon from the each window o
pened.

Regards

Yousef

[edit]Urgency removed. It may be urgent for you, but it isn't to us. All it does is annoy people and make you look like you haven't bothered - OriginalGriff[/edit]