The Old New Thing

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How do I configure a Remote Desktop Connection shortcut to open on a specific monitor?

July 8, 2010 Jul 8, 2010 07/8/10
Raymond Chen
A customer wanted to know how to configure a Remote Desktop Connection shortcut so that the session appears on the monitor of choice. "I have two RDP shortcuts, and each one displays on a different monitor, but I want them all to display on my 20-inch monitor. How do I tell the bad shortcut, 'Hey, use that monitor over there please'?" Normal ...

Crackpots in computer security: The neighbors are looking at me weird

July 7, 2010 Jul 7, 2010 07/7/10
Raymond Chen
The security team gets all sorts of email to report security issues. Nearly 200,000 each year. And of course the reports vary in quality greatly. The ones I'm fascinated by are the crackpots. IMMEDIATE HELP NEEDED, PHONES  PHONE NUMBERS DELETED, EM XXXXXXXX@ GMAIL,HOTMAIL,LIVE,AOL.YAHOO. IM ALMOST POSITIVE HE IS USING BLUETOOTH.  ...

Hardware backward compatibility: The firmware that missed one tiny detail

July 6, 2010 Jul 6, 2010 07/6/10
Raymond Chen
The person responsible for the floppy disk driver in Windows 95 also was responsible for the low-level CD-ROM drivers. (Not to be confused with the CDFS file system, which was handled by the file system team, not the hardware driver folks.) And I remember a story about one particularly strange CD-ROM drive. This drive was produced by a ...

One small silver lining of moving Boeing headquarters to Chicago

July 5, 2010 Jul 5, 2010 07/5/10
Raymond Chen
In 2001, Boeing moved their corporate headquarters from Seattle to Chicago. This resulted in much wailing and consternation in Seattle, where Boeing had been since its founding in 1915. But every cloud has a silver lining. Seattle is the home of Boeing's passenger jet division, and the presence of corporate executives had added an extra layer...

The commutative law for postage and its limitations

July 2, 2010 Jul 2, 2010 07/2/10
Raymond Chen
The college professor who carried on a letter exchange with a kind pensioner who proved that the speed of light could be exceeded told me of another letter exchange, this time with another professional mathematician. The letter came from England, and it accompanied some sort of document or artifact that the correspondent wanted the college ...

Instead of trying to figure out what shortcut class to use, just ask the shell to do it for you

July 2, 2010 Jul 2, 2010 07/2/10
Raymond Chen
If a shell namespace item has the SFGAO_LINK attribute, then it is a shortcut to another location. The most common type of shortcut is the .lnk file, which you can load by creating the CLSID_Shell­Link object and using IPersist­File::Load, but what if you have some other type of shortcut? How do you know what CLSID to use? Since ...
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What is the lpClass member of SHELLEXECUTEINFO used for?

July 1, 2010 Jul 1, 2010 07/1/10
Raymond Chen
A customer reported problems launching the default Web browser with the Shell­Execute­Ex function: This fails with sei.hInstApp = SE_ERR_FNF. If you don't pass the SEE_MASK_CLASSNAME flag and leave lpClass = NULL, then the Shell­Execute­Ex function will try to figure out what your lpFile refers to, looking at the file ...
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