November 28, 2014Nov 28, 201411/28/14It doesn’t happen often,
but a user’s SID can change.
For example, when I started at Microsoft,
my account was in the SYS-WIN4 domain,
which is where all the people on the Windows 95 team
were placed.
At some point, that domain was retired,
November 27, 2014Nov 27, 201411/27/14Today is a holiday in the United States, so I’m going to celebrate by referring you to other things to read.
I’m going to start with a presentation by Bruce Dawson at GDC 2009, which is basically multiple instances of the question “Is this code correct?”,
November 26, 2014Nov 26, 201411/26/14After learning about the bad things that happened if you synchronized your application’s input queue with its debugger, commenter kme wonders how debugging worked in 16-bit Windows, since 16-bit Windows didn’t have asynchronous input? In 16-bit Windows, all applications shared the same input queue,
November 25, 2014Nov 25, 201411/25/14In the System control panel and in the PC Info section of the PC & Devices section of PC Settings, your device’s pen and touch support can be reported in a variety of ways. Here is the matrix:
No pen
Pen
No touch
No Pen or Touch Input
Pen Support
Single touch
Single Touch Support
Pen and Single Touch Support
Limited multi-touch
Limited Touch Support with N Touch Points
Pen and Limited Touch Support with N Touch Points
Full multi-touch
Full Touch Support with N Touch Points
Pen and Full Touch Support with N Touch Points
The meaning of No touch and Single touch are clear,
November 24, 2014Nov 24, 201411/24/14Today’s Little Program strips diacritics from a Unicode string.
Why?
Hey, I said that Little Programs require little to no motivation.
It might come in handy in a spam filter, since it was popular,
at least for a time, to put random accent marks on spam subject
lines in order to sneak past keyword filters.
November 21, 2014Nov 21, 201411/21/14My initial reaction to this question was to say, “I don’t know if I’d call it wrong, but I’d call it highly inadvisable.”
I’d like to revise my guidance.
It’s flat-out wrong, at least in the case where you call it while impersonating.
November 20, 2014Nov 20, 201411/20/14If you load a library with the LOAD_LIBRARY_AS_DATAFILE flag, then it isn’t really loaded in any normal sense. In fact, it’s kept completely off the books.
If you load a library with the LOAD_LIBRARY_AS_DATAFILE, LOAD_LIBRARY_AS_DATAFILE_EXCLUSIVE, or LOAD_LIBRARY_AS_IMAGE_RESOURCE flag (or any similar flag added in the future),
November 19, 2014Nov 19, 201411/19/14Often, we get questions from a customer that use the word should in an ambiguous way:
Our program creates a widget whose flux capacitor should have reverse polarity. Attached is a sample program that shows how we create the widget with CreateWidget.
November 18, 2014Nov 18, 201411/18/14A customer reported that file version information
does not appear on the Details page of the property sheet
which appears when you right-click the file and select
Properties.
They reported that the problem began in Windows 7.
The reason that the file version information was not appearing
is that the file’s extension was .xyz.
November 17, 2014Nov 17, 201411/17/14If you use the Remote Desktop Connection client to connect
to another computer,
you have the option of making your local drives available
to the remote computer.
A customer wanted to know how to enumerate all the drives
on the local machine.
