The Old New Thing

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Creating a listview with checkboxes on some items but not others

January 13, 2014 Jan 13, 2014 01/13/14
Raymond Chen
Today's Little Program creates a listview with checkboxeson some items but not other.TheLVS_EX_CHECK­BOXESextended style is really just a convenience style.Everything it does you could have done yourself,with a bit more typing.It creates a state image list consisting of an unchecked box (state 1) and a checked box (state 2...
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How do I manually recalculate ACLs on a file based on the containing directory?

January 10, 2014 Jan 10, 2014 01/10/14
Raymond Chen
A customer wanted to move a file and have it forget all its old ACLs and instead inherit its ACLs from its new location. They found an old article of mine that said If you use SH­File­Operation to move a file and pass the FOF_NO­COPY­SECURITY­ATTRIBUTES flag, then it will not preserve the original ACLs on the moved files...
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The case of the missing context menu verbs

January 8, 2014 Jan 8, 2014 01/8/14
Raymond Chen
A customer reported that when they right-clicked a batch file, a bunch of commands were missing. For example, Open was gone! Okay, there really isn't much of a story here, because some direct debugging quickly identified the culprit. The customer had installed a third party shell extension which returned a huge value from its IContext­...
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The case of the mysterious Alternate Data Stream query

January 7, 2014 Jan 7, 2014 01/7/14
Raymond Chen
A customer was running Windows Server 2003 ("Still in support until 2015!") and they have some custom application that monitors all disk accesses. They noticed that there were a lot of failed Alternate Data Stream queries coming from Explorer, and that was causing the custom application's logs to fill with largely useless information. These ...

Excuses college students use for missing assignments

January 6, 2014 Jan 6, 2014 01/6/14
Raymond Chen
My father recently retired after over 40 years as a college professor. During that time, he has seen all sorts of lame excuses students offer for missing homework assignments. Eventually, he got tired of dealing with them, so he instituted the following homework policy: There are nine homework assignments in this class, broken into three ...

How do I obtain the computer manufacturer's name via C++?

January 6, 2014 Jan 6, 2014 01/6/14
Raymond Chen
The way to get the computer manufacturer and other informationis toask WMI.WMI is much easier to use via scripting, but maybe you want to do itfrom C++.Fortunately,MSDN takes you through it step by stepand even puts it together intoa sample program.But I'm going to write the code myself anyway.Today's Little Program extracts ...
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What happened in real-mode Windows when somebody did a longjmp into a discardable segment?

January 3, 2014 Jan 3, 2014 01/3/14
Raymond Chen
During the discussion of how real-mode Windows handled return addresses into discarded segments, Gabe wondered, "What happens when somebody does a long­jmp into a discardable segment?" I'm going to assume that everybody knows how long­jmp traditionally works so I can go straight to the analysis. The reason long­jmp is tricky ...

If the cursor clip rectangle is a global resource, how come I can't change it with ClipCursor?

January 2, 2014 Jan 2, 2014 01/2/14
Raymond Chen
A customer reported that the Clip­Cursor function was not working. "The cursor clip rectangle is a shared global resource, so I should be able to change it any time I like. My app installs a global mouse hook and sets the clip cursor inside the hook function, but the change doesn't have any effect. Why can't I change the clip cursor inside...
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We know your job is hard, you don't have to show us

January 1, 2014 Jan 1, 2014 01/1/14
Raymond Chen
Some years ago, I attended a internal presentation where one group was teaching another group how to use their new feature. This particular feature was a "Just plug in the things you want, click the Apply button, and sit back and relax while we figure out how to do what you asked" type of feature. The presentation leader showed some examples ...