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How do I make a boldface item on a context menu?

March 30, 2015 Mar 30, 2015 03/30/15

Raymond Chen

The menu default item.

Switching on a tuple: Sneaky trick

March 26, 2015 Mar 26, 2015 03/26/15

Raymond Chen

Data packing.

What's the difference between PathIsSystemFolder and Protected Operating System Files?

March 25, 2015 Mar 25, 2015 03/25/15

Raymond Chen

The way to detect weird directories that should be excluded from the user interface is to check for the FILE_ATTRIBUTE_HIDDEN and FILE_ATTRIBUTE_SYSTEM attributes being set simultaneously. This is the mechanism used when you uncheck Hide protected operating system files in the Folder Options dialog. (Programmatically, you detect whether the ...

CancelIoEx can cancel I/O on console input, which is kind of nice

March 23, 2015 Mar 23, 2015 03/23/15

Raymond Chen

Stop that input.