The Old New Thing

The strangest way of detecting Windows NT

October 26, 2004 Oct 26, 2004 10/26/04

Raymond Chen

A colleague of mine nominated this code for Function of the Year. (This is the same person who was the first to report that a Windows beta used a suspect URL.) I have to admit that this code is pretty impressive. Of all the ways to check the operating system, you have to agree that sniffing at an undocumented implementation detail of memory...