If you search MSDN for , you'll find a few really old Knowledge Base articles that include it in a list of "class names of common Windows applications." I'm not sure why the Knowledge Base articles bothered to list those classes; there is no technical reason for applications to need to know this, and including the information merely encourages ...
Today is Election Day in the United States. Some years ago, seventh grade students (age 12) were asked to imagine they had just been elected president and to give an address to the nation on one thing they would change. Remember, these are only the most entertaining ideas. Do not assume all student ideas are like these. And this sentence ...
A customer wanted to do one of those user-hostile things that Windows doesn't make easy to do (the sort of thing I tend to call out on this Web site). After receiving an explanation that Windows doesn't provide a way of doing what they want because it abuses the component in question and goes against user expectations, the customer countered, "Yes...
Commenter littleguru asks, "Why does the End Now button not kill the process immediately?" When you click the End Now button, the process really does end now, but not before a brief message from our sponsor. When you kill a hung application, Windows Error Reporting steps in to record the state of the hung application so it can be submitted to the...
