The Old New Thing

Solving the problem rather than answering the question: How can a non-administrator modify a registry key that requires administrator permission?

February 27, 2015 Feb 27, 2015 02/27/15

Raymond Chen

Design so you don't need administrative privileges.

RegNotifyChangeKeyValue sucks less

February 26, 2015 Feb 26, 2015 02/26/15

Raymond Chen

No longer tied to a specific thread.

Further adventures in trying to guess what encoding a file is in

February 23, 2015 Feb 23, 2015 02/23/15

Raymond Chen

Today's candidate: IMultiLanguage2::DetectCodepageInIStream

Non-capturing C++ lambdas can be converted to a pointer to function, but what about the calling convention?

February 20, 2015 Feb 20, 2015 02/20/15

Raymond Chen

Nothing to see, so nothing to pass.

What's the point of using a custom timer queue if there is a default one already?

February 19, 2015 Feb 19, 2015 02/19/15

Raymond Chen

A customer observed that when you create a timer via Create­Timer­Queue­Timer, you have the option of passing either NULL to get the default timer queue or a handle to a custom timer queue created by the Create­Timer­Queue function. Why would you want to create a custom timer queue? If you create a custom timer queue, then...