April 2010

Microspeak: SQMmed

April 6, 2010 Apr 6, 2010 04/6/10

Raymond Chen

The letters SQM originally stood for Service Quality Monitoring, but that doesn't really answer the question, "What is SQM?" SQM is the internal code name for the technologies behind what is publically known as the Microsoft Customer Experience Improvement Program. This is a voluntary program that customers can opt into, which gathers ...

When people ask for security holes as features: Non-administrators reading other users' stuff

April 5, 2010 Apr 5, 2010 04/5/10

Raymond Chen

Via the suggestion box, Aaron Lerch asks whether a non-administrator can retrieve/evaluate environment variables as they would appear for another user. This falls into the category of asking for a security hole as a feature, specifically an information disclosure security hole, because you are extracting information from a user's private ...

Why do non-folders in my shell namespace extension show up in the folder tree view?

April 2, 2010 Apr 2, 2010 04/2/10

Raymond Chen

A customer was having trouble with their shell namespace extension: When we click the [+] button next to our shell namespace extension in the folder tree view, the tree view shows both files and folders, even though it's supposed to show only folders. Our does return the correct values for (including it for the folders and omitting it for ...

EnumClaw, the function that never was

April 1, 2010 Apr 1, 2010 04/1/10

Raymond Chen

bhiggins asks about the mysterious function that existed in some versions of the Win32 documentation. I went digging through the MSDN archives and was close to giving up and declaring the cause lost, but then I found it: A copy of the documentation. EnumClaw The EnumClaw function returns the child or the parent of the window whose ...

The Old New Thing

April 2010 - Page 3 of 3 - The Old New Thing

Microspeak: SQMmed

When people ask for security holes as features: Non-administrators reading other users' stuff

Why do non-folders in my shell namespace extension show up in the folder tree view?

EnumClaw, the function that never was