custom message on deletion of file...

[shakuni]

While deleting some files on windows XP, I get this message
"Deleting this File Will Make some Programs not Work"
I want to know weather I can produce a particular message, like above, when a file gets deleted.

(May be I need to monitor certain files using hook, and when the hook notifies me of their deletion, I show a messagebox like above. But I want to know how "windows" do it).

[white scorpion]

If you put the file attribute 'system' (S) on a file, Windows will give you a similar message.

you can add it to a file (test.exe) through the command prompt like this:

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c:\>attrib +s test.exe

Or you can use the Windows API SetFileAttributes.


I'm not sure about creating a custom message though.
It's probably a string in one of the system DLL's. So theoretically you could alter the string in the DLL but I wouldn't recommend it since it's part of the system and might get updated automatically through Windows Updates.