Why is my call to ChangeTimerQueueTimer having no effect? (And another case of looking past the question to solve the problem.) December 30, 2015 Dec 30, 2015 12/30/15 Raymond Chen Because it's too late.
Why are Windows setup logs stored in a Panther directory? Does it have anything to do with the abandoned Panther project from the precursor to Windows 95? December 29, 2015 Dec 29, 2015 12/29/15 Raymond Chen Unrelated.
Determining how each Explorer window is sorted December 28, 2015 Dec 28, 2015 12/28/15 Raymond Chen Ask for the sort criteria.
When is the correct time to call FreeLibraryWhenCallbackReturns? December 25, 2015 Dec 25, 2015 12/25/15 Raymond Chen Any time during the execution of the callback is fine.
Why does my in-place tooltip dismiss itself as soon as it appears? December 24, 2015 Dec 24, 2015 12/24/15 Raymond Chen Because it's detecting itself.
Confusing gotcha: PSECURITY_DESCRIPTOR is not a pointer to a SECURITY_DESCRIPTOR December 23, 2015 Dec 23, 2015 12/23/15 Raymond Chen It's just an untyped pointer.
Unhandled Exception: Cannot print exception string because Exception.ToString() failed. December 22, 2015 Dec 22, 2015 12/22/15 Raymond Chen So that happened.
Allocating page file space without allocating RAM December 21, 2015 Dec 21, 2015 12/21/15 Raymond Chen Fixing an old tool.
Are views of memory-mapped files coherent within a single process? (And how this was the wrong question.) December 18, 2015 Dec 18, 2015 12/18/15 Raymond Chen Yes.