Windows 95 API Dictionary

Last Update: April 16, 1998

Current Number of Calls Listed: 60

Welcome to my 100% free Windows 95 API Dictionary! If you're a Windows programmer like me, you know that the API contains a copious amount of useful and often needed functions to perform hundreds of tasks. Unfortunately, the only guide to this programming resource is the scant API viewer, which only lists the calls to them. Even worse, free web sites that list this information are almost nowhere to be found. All you can find are advertisements for fat books on the subject. Books! These authors expect you to pay $50.00 for this knowledge! Not that I have anything against capitalism, I feel that this is too great a burden for a recreational programmer to pay. So, I created this dictionary.

If you are interested in this information, feel free to bookmark this page. If you would like to download a zipped copy of all the information contained, please click here. I will try to update this area whenever I can find some more useful calls. This dictionary was written with Visual Basic users in mind, so the declaration commands and examples are written in Visual Basic. However, these calls will of course work with any other 32-bit Windows-based programming language. Just substitute you language's commands for those I wrote.

If you are new or are unfamiliar with what the Windows 95 API is used for, please take a look at the introduction. It will help you to understand what this guide does. Also read this if you have not used this guide before.

WARNING! Use the data provided in this guide at your own risk. There may be typos in some sections, so if it looks wrong, it might be. I cannot be held responsible for any damage done to your system through the misuse of API calls, including (but not limited to) the following: hardware device drivers, the Windows registry, the desktop, the screen display, and any hard or floppy drives.

Choose between one of the two listings of API calls. Remember that data types and constants are only listed in the alphabetical listing.


Alphabetical Listing


Listing by Category

NOTE: This categorization is my own, so functions are not necessarily in the best category. Arrangement subject to change. Calls that do not fit any categories or that do not yet have a category for them are listed under Miscellaneous/Uncategorized.


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