Why are there four functions for parsing strings into GUIDs, and why are they in three different DLLs? March 31, 2016 Mar 31, 2016 03/31/16 Raymond Chen Different historical contexts..
Why doesn’t a program show up on the Start menu’s Recently Used Programs list if I just used it to open a document? March 29, 2016 Mar 29, 2016 03/29/16 Raymond Chen You have to actually use the program directly, at least once.
Getting MS-DOS games to run on Windows 95: Virtual memory March 28, 2016 Mar 28, 2016 03/28/16 Raymond Chen Memory access is uniform and free, right?
Fixing a floating point exception when operating on NaN March 25, 2016 Mar 25, 2016 03/25/16 Raymond Chen Generate it at compile time.
Why does PathIsUNC say that paths that begin with \\?\ are not UNCs? March 24, 2016 Mar 24, 2016 03/24/16 Raymond Chen Because they aren't.
Don’t be helpless: You can find information too, if you try (episode 3) March 23, 2016 Mar 23, 2016 03/23/16 Raymond Chen Look around you.
How can I find out how much disk space the WinSxS folder is really occupying? March 22, 2016 Mar 22, 2016 03/22/16 Raymond Chen Untangling the links.
Were there specific criteria for making a game work at all costs vs. leaving it be if it had problems too weird to debug? March 21, 2016 Mar 21, 2016 03/21/16 Raymond Chen It was basically up to me.
What are the consequences of reserving a huge amount of memory, most of which is never committed? March 18, 2016 Mar 18, 2016 03/18/16 Raymond Chen It's mostly harmless now.