The Old New Thing

Practical development throughout the evolution of Windows.

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Raymond Chen
Raymond Chen
Sep 17, 2024

It rather involved being on the other side of this airtight hatchway: Posting completions to somebody else’s I/O completion port

If you have gained access to it, then that was the problem.

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Raymond Chen
Raymond Chen
Sep 16, 2024

Some notes on Win32 carets

Assorted notes and musings.

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Raymond Chen
Raymond Chen
Sep 13, 2024

The case of the fail-fast crashes coming from the power management system

Understanding why it decided to fail fast.

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Raymond Chen
Raymond Chen
Sep 12, 2024

How can I tell whether two programs will share drive letter mappings?

You can compare the authentication IDs.

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Raymond Chen
Raymond Chen
Sep 10, 2024

Does the Resource Compiler have a separate preprocessor or doesn’t it?

It did, but now it doesn't.

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Raymond Chen
Raymond Chen
Sep 9, 2024

GitHub trick to find the commit that deleted a file

Ask for the history of the file.

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Raymond Chen
Raymond Chen
Sep 6, 2024

The case of the image that came out horribly slanted: Negative stride

It's all topsy-turvy.

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Raymond Chen
Raymond Chen
Sep 5, 2024

The case of the image that came out horribly slanted: Taking the pitch into account

Getting the pieces to line up.

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