Well, a few months ago I searched MSDN for some API’s which could be interesting to me. I stumbled over the Windows Search API which I found really interesting since it gives you the possibility to programmatically search for files, in your emails or specific folders on your local drive.     Windows Search is a standard component of Windows Vista enabled by default and an add-in for Microsoft Windows XP which allows instant...

This article presents the Windows Update Agent API and how you can use it in Delphi.I made a demo that actually handles the most important parts of the API like searching for updates, downloading and installing these updates on your machine. You can download the sources (early demo) at the Jedi Svn the links are provided at the end of this article. If you want to download an executable demo you can do it in the download...