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Some have already been included from @fearless API/Library Function/Method Language/Framework Notes Windows API (Native) DeleteFileA() / DeleteFileW() C/C++ Low-level, Unicode support with W variant. Only deletes files, not directories. Windows API (Native) RemoveDirectoryA() / RemoveDirectoryW() C/C++ Deletes empty directories only. Must be empty first. Windows API (Native) SHFileOperationA() / SHFileOperationW() C/C++ High-level Shell API. Can delete files/folders recursively with flags like FO_DELETE. Supports recycle bin. Windows API (Native) IFileOperation COM Interface C/C++ Modern replacement for SHFileOperation(). Better for recursive deletion and recycle bin support. MSVC Standard Library std::filesystem::remove() C++17+ Deletes a single file or empty directory. MSVC Standard Library std::filesystem::remove_all() C++17+ Recursively deletes files and directories. Qt Framework QFile::remove() C++ (Qt) Deletes a single file. Cross-platform. Qt Framework QDir::removeRecursively() C++ (Qt) Recursively removes a directory and all contents. Cross-platform. Qt Framework QDir::rmdir() C++ (Qt) Removes an empty directory only. .NET Framework File.Delete() C# / VB.NET Deletes a single file. .NET Framework Directory.Delete() C# / VB.NET Deletes a directory; optional recursive parameter for contents. Python (stdlib) os.remove() Python Deletes a single file. Python (stdlib) os.rmdir() Python Removes an empty directory. Python (stdlib) shutil.rmtree() Python Recursively removes a directory tree.

DeleteFile DeleteFileA: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/api/fileapi/nf-fileapi-deletefilea DeleteFileW: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/api/fileapi/nf-fileapi-deletefilew RemoveDirectory RemoveDirectoryA: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/api/fileapi/nf-fileapi-removedirectorya RemoveDirectoryW: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/api/fileapi/nf-fileapi-removedirectoryw SHFileOperation SHFileOperationA: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/api/shellapi/nf-shellapi-shfileoperationa SHFileOperationW: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/api/shellapi/nf-shellapi-shfileoperationw SHFILEOPSTRUCT (for SHFileOperation) SHFILEOPSTRUCTA: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/api/shellapi/ns-shellapi-shfileopstructa SHFILEOPSTRUCTW: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/api/shellapi/ns-shellapi-shfileopstructw

What Apis can be used for deleting a file or a folder? Can someone list most of them or all of them?

A couple of years ago my old Iomega ZIP100 parallel port drive started randomly ejecting disks. Instead of replacing it, I decided to do something slightly unreasonable: reverse-engineer the protocol and build my own ZIP100 emulator. That hobby project eventually became LPT100, a parallel-port ZIP100 emulator implemented on a microcontroller that reads/writes disk images stored on a USB flash drive. The project ended up being much deeper than expected because there is almost no public documentation of the ZIP parallel protocol. Most of the work involved reverse-engineering the Linux ppa driver, tracing PALMZIP behavior, and capturing port activity. The final project, named LPT100, was implemented on a PIC32MZ microcontroller and tested with: MS-DOS/Windows 98/Windows XP/Linux (Super 8086 Box, DOSBox-X, QEMU) and MS-DOS + PALMZIP (Book 8088), with disk images stored on USB flash drive. Parallel port interface was done via GPIO + DMA capture. I documented everything in two articles: Part 1 – Protocol reverse engineering + emulator in DOSBox/QEMU https://www.toughdev.com/content/2026/02/pic32mz-iomega-zip100-parallel-port-emulator-part-1-dosbox-qemu-testing/ Part 2 – Building the actual hardware https://www.toughdev.com/content/2026/03/pic32mz-iomega-zip100-parallel-port-emulator-part-2-hardware-design/ Part 1 Video - Emulator testing (DOSBox + QEMU + multiple OSes): https://youtu.be/ZMJkRygU8kI Part 2 Video - Real hardware LPT100 board running on Book 8088: https://youtu.be/340J7vItfPw On my Book8088 system, write speed is ~7.2 KB/s, read speed is around 6.3 KB/s in nibble mode, which is actually pretty close to real ZIP parallel performance on 8088 systems. When tested in Windows 98 using DOSBox-X, the speed is around 50-60KB/sec in bidirectional mode. The emulator works perfectly on 8088-class systems, although faster machines (386+) can overwhelm the microcontroller timing. I might consider migrating to a faster MCU (e.g. Teensy) in a future revision. If anyone here still uses parallel ZIP drives, I would love to hear your thoughts.

there is 2 way as far as i know, de4dot uses hash and which i dont know how it works and how it detects the handler second way is mine, in every handler, you need to seperate when the handler reach the end of its blocks, since its combined you need to detect the last instruction of every handler in handler method the structure should be like this handlerMethod{{handler1_start..handler1_end}, {handler2_start..handler2_end}} then to detect what handler is that use pattern matching loop through every handler you detect in that handlerMethod then match with the right pattern

My solution (Not much to say there either)... kg.7z

I recommand the people to use this protection because it's very good. The protection is advanced like Pelock but very good. Only a real reserver can do it But it needs much times to be able handle it. UnpackMe.Obsidium.1.69b1.x86_unprotect.rar

Results : Screen Recording - Made with FlexClip.webm No need for unpack,is this UnpackMe or CrackMe? Thread says UnpackMe but app says otherwise. Currently in process of making automatic patcher for the CrackMe,will upload here once im done.

Like this one It can be debugged and unpacked easily. So there are no antidebugger . we can enable drx and debugge it as normal app.

Is this a seek-and-hide game? giving the forums links and he must search until he finds it? Look at this (a random post), he gets the plugin from here and puts it for sale on that forum...

awesome_msil_Out.exe Approach: 1. Necrobit is a jit protection, so we use Simple MSIL Decryptor by CodeCracker , and it shall be ran on NetBox 2. Code virtualization is a relatively new feature of .net reactor, added in version 6.2.0.0. Here is the approach i took (i did this about 6 months ago so my memory is kinda rusty ) : (Click spoiler to see hidden contents)