2012 year-end link clearance
December 31, 2012Dec 31, 201212/31/12It goes again.
December 31, 2012Dec 31, 201212/31/12December 31, 2012Dec 31, 201212/31/12Why can't you rename deleted items in the Recycle Bin?
December 31, 2012Dec 31, 201212/31/12I misread a question from commenter Comedy Gaz, so let’s try it again. (Good thing I held one last Suggestion Box Monday of the year in reserve.)
Why can’t you rename deleted items in the Recycle Bin?
Okay, first of all,
What do HeapLock and HeapUnlock do, and when do I need to call them?
December 28, 2012Dec 28, 201212/28/12You never need to call the HeapLock and
HeapUnlock functions under normal operation.
Assuming the heap is serialized
(which is the default),
all the standard heap functions like
HeapAllocate and HeapFree
will automatically serialize.
In fact, the way they serialize is by calling
the¹
What is so special about the instance handle 0x10000000?
December 27, 2012Dec 27, 201212/27/12A customer wanted to know what it means when the LoadLibrary function returns the special value 0x10000000.
Um, it means that the library was loaded at 0x10000000?
Okay, here’s some more information: “We’re trying to debug an application which loads DLLs and attempts to hook their registry accesses when they call DllRegisterServer.
What celebration of Kwanzaa would be complete without Sandra Lee's infamous Kwanzaa cake?
December 26, 2012Dec 26, 201212/26/12For those unfamiliar with Sandra Lee, her gimmick is that the ingredients in her recipes are primarily prepared foods, a food-preparation technique (I’m reluctant to call it cooking) which she calls “semi-homemade.”
First, the creation one critic called “an edible hate crime.”
A question about endian-ness turns out to be the wrong question
December 26, 2012Dec 26, 201212/26/12Via a customer liaison, we received what seemed like a simple question: “How can I detect whether a Windows machine is big-endian or little-endian?”
You could actually answer this question (say by coughing up a code fragment that stores a 16-bit value to memory and then takes it apart into bytes to see how it got stored,
You too can use your psychic powers: Spaces in paths
December 25, 2012Dec 25, 201212/25/12I’m going to be lazy today and make you solve the problem.
Did a recent security hotfix change change the way we handle UNC paths with spaces? Normally, if we open the Run dialog and type \\server\share\Support Library\, the Support Library folder opens.
Miss Denmark, she is dressed as a mermaid because we couldn't secure the rights from LEGO
December 24, 2012Dec 24, 201212/24/12Once again, the commentary is NSFW, but once again, they so deserve it.
Miss Universe 2012 National Costumes, Part 1 my favorite is the commentary for the Dominican Republic) Miss Universe 2012 National Costumes, Part 2 Miss Universe 2012 National Costumes,
What is the proper handling of WM_RENDERFORMAT and WM_RENDERALLFORMATS?
December 24, 2012Dec 24, 201212/24/12Jeremy points out that the documentation for
SetClipboardData says that the clipboard
owner must not call OpenClipboard when responding
to the
WM_RENDERFORMAT and
WM_RENDERALLFORMATS messages.
On the other hand, the documentation for
WM_RENDERALLFORMATS says that
the owner must call OpenClipboard and
EmptyClipboard.
Why do BackupRead and BackupWrite require synchronous file handles?
December 21, 2012Dec 21, 201212/21/12The BackupRead and BackupWrite functions require that the handle you provide by synchronous. (In other words, that they not be opened with FILE_FLAG_OVERLAPPED.)
A customer submitted the following question:
We have been using asynchronous file handles with the BackupRead. Every so often,