The Old New Thing

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

The quiet fading away of the CtlPanelClass

November 3, 2010 Nov 3, 2010 11/3/10
Raymond Chen
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...

Saying that your case is different doesn't make it so

November 2, 2010 Nov 2, 2010 11/2/10
Raymond Chen
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...

Why doesn't the End Task button end my task immediately?

November 1, 2010 Nov 1, 2010 11/1/10
Raymond Chen
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 ...