http://code.activestate.com/recipes/tags/system_programming/2016-09-20T17:46:37-07:00ActiveState Code Recipes2016-09-20T17:46:37-07:00Vasudev Ramhttp://code.activestate.com/recipes/users/4173351/http://code.activestate.com/recipes/580699-quick-and-dirty-windows-drive-detector/

<p style="color: grey"> Python recipe 580699 by <a href="/recipes/users/4173351/">Vasudev Ram</a> (<a href="/recipes/tags/drives/">drives</a>, <a href="/recipes/tags/sysadmin/">sysadmin</a>, <a href="/recipes/tags/system_programming/">system_programming</a>, <a href="/recipes/tags/utility/">utility</a>, <a href="/recipes/tags/windows/">windows</a>). </p> <p>This is a quick-and-dirty Python script to detect the currently available drives on your Windows PC.</p>

2009-08-03T10:05:38-07:00Shao-chuan Wanghttp://code.activestate.com/recipes/users/4168519/http://code.activestate.com/recipes/576865-shutdown-your-pc-by-using-ctypes-win32-platform/

<p style="color: grey"> Python recipe 576865 by <a href="/recipes/users/4168519/">Shao-chuan Wang</a> (<a href="/recipes/tags/ctypes/">ctypes</a>, <a href="/recipes/tags/reboot/">reboot</a>, <a href="/recipes/tags/shutdown/">shutdown</a>, <a href="/recipes/tags/system_programming/">system_programming</a>, <a href="/recipes/tags/win32/">win32</a>). </p> <p>It is true that by using win32 extension python modules, such as win32api, win32con, and win32security, we can easily shutdown the computer with a few steps. However, sometimes your python's runtime environment does not provide win32com module (because it is not a build-in module), we may have to shutdown the pc on our own.</p> <p>By using ctypes, we are still able to shutdown or reboot the PC easily.</p>

2009-01-26T09:32:34-08:00Shao-chuan Wanghttp://code.activestate.com/recipes/users/4168519/http://code.activestate.com/recipes/576634-control-cpu-usage-by-using-ctypes-win32-platform/

<p style="color: grey"> Python recipe 576634 by <a href="/recipes/users/4168519/">Shao-chuan Wang</a> (<a href="/recipes/tags/cpu_usage/">cpu_usage</a>, <a href="/recipes/tags/ctypes/">ctypes</a>, <a href="/recipes/tags/system_programming/">system_programming</a>, <a href="/recipes/tags/win32/">win32</a>). Revision 3. </p> <p>This program will make your cpu work at a given cpu usage. It should be also able to work on machines with multi-processors. The program has been tested on Windows xp sp2 with python of version 2.5.4.</p> <p>The implementation is based on the fact that it will adjust the ratio of being busy over being idle in the main process to approach the target cpu usage rate. </p>

2009-01-26T06:43:38-08:00Shao-chuan Wanghttp://code.activestate.com/recipes/users/4168519/http://code.activestate.com/recipes/576631-get-cpu-usage-by-using-ctypes-win32-platform/

<p style="color: grey"> Python recipe 576631 by <a href="/recipes/users/4168519/">Shao-chuan Wang</a> (<a href="/recipes/tags/cpu_usage/">cpu_usage</a>, <a href="/recipes/tags/ctypes/">ctypes</a>, <a href="/recipes/tags/system_programming/">system_programming</a>, <a href="/recipes/tags/win32/">win32</a>). Revision 2. </p> <p>The following code has been tested at Windows XP sp2 with Python of version 2.5.4.</p>