August 31, 2010Aug 31, 201008/31/10I was in the supermarket looking for cold medicine, and as is my wont, I like to read the fine print before choosing a product. Most of the products listed their active ingredients in the form Active Ingredient: XYZ 150mg. But there were a few that said Active Ingredient: XYZ 6X.
August 31, 2010Aug 31, 201008/31/10A customer liaison asked the following question on behalf of
his customer:
My customer is finding that their Windows Server 2003 system has
restarted, and they want to find out why.
I’ve found some event log similar to the ones below,
August 30, 2010Aug 30, 201008/30/10In other parts of the world, religious images emerge from
random patterns.
Out here, we get Microsoft marketing.
If I were on it, I could’ve charged admission.
August 30, 2010Aug 30, 201008/30/10Andy Visser posted to the Suggestion Box something that wasn’t so much a suggestion as a comment, presumably to get around the fact that comments on the original item had been closed: “I’ve found that the start bar seems to behave like it may be using this call incorrectly.
August 27, 2010Aug 27, 201008/27/10If instead of calling ExitProcess you merely return from the main thread of a process, does the process terminate?
No, but maybe yes.
This is another one of the places where the C runtime behaves differently from raw Win32.
Under raw Win32,
August 26, 2010Aug 26, 201008/26/10A customer had the following question:
I’m using the ShellExecute function to launch a new process and am passing the handle to my application’s main window as the hwnd parameter. From the new process, I want to get information from the old process,
August 25, 2010Aug 25, 201008/25/10My young nieces live in a Chinese-speaking household, which is great for them because it means that when they grow up, they will be fluent in two languages. But it makes things a bit tricky at the beginning.
The niece who is the subject of this story had just turned two at the time this story takes place,
August 25, 2010Aug 25, 201008/25/10A customer noticed that when you right-click on Computer in the second column of the Start menu on Windows Vista, the first two options are Open and Explore. On the other hand, in Windows 7, the Explore option is gone, leaving just Open.
August 24, 2010Aug 24, 201008/24/10Today marks the 15th anniversary of the public release of Windows 95.
During the development of Windows 95, one of the team members attended a Mac conference. And not as a secret agent, either. He proudly wore a Windows 95 team T-shirt as he strolled among the booths.
August 23, 2010Aug 23, 201008/23/10Commenter Erbi has a program which creates a splash screen on a background thread while the main thread initializes. “I create and then destroy this splash screen window just before creating and displaying the main window.” The problem is that the main window fails to obtain foreground activation.
