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Dec 5, 2003
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Why do I have to return this goofy value for WM_DEVICECHANGE?

Raymond Chen

To deny a device removal query, you must return the special value BROADCAST_QUERY_DENY, which has the curious value 0x424D5144. What's the story behind that? Well, we first tried following the pattern set by WM_QUERYENDSESSION, where returning TRUE allows the operation to proceed and returning FALSE causes the operation to fail. But when we did t...

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