Sending a window a WM_DESTROY message is like prank calling somebody pretending to be the police

Raymond ChenSeptember 26, 2011Sep 26, 201109/26/11

A customer was trying to track down a memory leak in their program. Their leak tracking tool produced the stacks which allocated memory that was never freed, and they all seemed to come from uxtheme.dll, which is a DLL that comes with Windows. The customer naturally contacted Microsoft to report what appeared to be a memory leak in Windows...