March 31, 2009Mar 31, 200903/31/09It’s that time again: Sending some link love to my colleagues.
The Microsoft Update Product Team has a white paper called Windows Update Explained (direct download: .docx) which goes into how Windows Update works and how IT professionals can customize it.
March 31, 2009Mar 31, 200903/31/09I was typing up a document and somehow accidentally misspelled spinlock as sinlock.
I was tempted to leave it.
March 30, 2009Mar 30, 200903/30/09Via the suggestion box,
Martin Filteau asks
Could you explain the implementation of WM_PRINTCLIENT?
It seems that even MS got it wrong in the LISTBOX control.
Try to AnimateWindow a window that as a LISTBOX control as a child.
The LISTBOX displays correctly if it is NOT empty.
March 27, 2009Mar 27, 200903/27/09It was interesting to me reading the reactions to my adventures driving a manual transmission. People seemed to be spending a lot of time trying to convince me that if only I were to expend a bit more effort in learning the finer points of driving a manual transmission and log enough time behind the wheel,
March 26, 2009Mar 26, 200903/26/09There is no way to lock the registry. Whereas you can open a file with a deny all sharing mode to prevent anyone else from opening the file, the registry has no such provision. You can’t lock a registry key and prevent others from reading from or writing to it.
March 25, 2009Mar 25, 200903/25/09I may regret this, but here’s something new: A caption contest.
One of my colleagues saw this picture on a company’s Web site.
The original caption for this picture was something like
Join our affiliate program
or
Score big with our affiliate program.
March 24, 2009Mar 24, 200903/24/09When you view a folder for the first time, Explorer arranges the items in a nice default pattern. And when items are added to the folder, they get added to the end. And when you delete an item from the folder…
March 23, 2009Mar 23, 200903/23/09Commenter Phil Quirk notes via the suggestion box, “MoveWindow is just a weird function. I guess it’s easier to call than SetWindowPos, but that’s the only thing it seems to have going for it.”
Yup, that’s about right.
The MoveWindow function doesn’t really do anything you couldn’t already do yourself with SetWindowPos.
March 20, 2009Mar 20, 200903/20/09I’m a pretty good speller. If I want to show impatience, I will type very fast and make no attempt to fix the typographical errors. Here’s an example: Somebody asked me what the correct name is for a particular user interface element.
March 19, 2009Mar 19, 200903/19/09Defense in depth is about protecting against threats that are already being protected against, just in case the existing protection fails. This is why there is not merely a lock on your safety deposit box, but also a lock on the door to the safety deposit box room,
