Dec 31, 2015
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2015 year-end link clearance
More random stuff.
Showing results for December 2015 - The Old New Thing
Dec 30, 2015
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Why is my call to ChangeTimerQueueTimer having no effect? (And another case of looking past the question to solve the problem.)
Because it's too late.
Dec 29, 2015
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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?
Unrelated.
Dec 28, 2015
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Determining how each Explorer window is sorted
Ask for the sort criteria.
Dec 25, 2015
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When is the correct time to call FreeLibraryWhenCallbackReturns?
Any time during the execution of the callback is fine.
Dec 24, 2015
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Why does my in-place tooltip dismiss itself as soon as it appears?
Because it's detecting itself.
Dec 23, 2015
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Confusing gotcha: PSECURITY_DESCRIPTOR is not a pointer to a SECURITY_DESCRIPTOR
It's just an untyped pointer.
Dec 22, 2015
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Unhandled Exception: Cannot print exception string because Exception.ToString() failed.
So that happened.
Dec 21, 2015
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Allocating page file space without allocating RAM
Fixing an old tool.
Dec 18, 2015
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Are views of memory-mapped files coherent within a single process? (And how this was the wrong question.)
Yes.