What does QueryThreadCycleTime actually count? April 29, 2016 Apr 29, 2016 04/29/16 Raymond Chen Whatever the CPU wants.
Is there an API for redrawing a specific window from another application? April 28, 2016 Apr 28, 2016 04/28/16 Raymond Chen Once again, turns out to be the wrong question.
How does Explorer calculate “Size on disk”? April 27, 2016 Apr 27, 2016 04/27/16 Raymond Chen Very simplistic.
Why can’t I pin a document to the taskbar? April 26, 2016 Apr 26, 2016 04/26/16 Raymond Chen Because that's not what the taskbar is.
Getting MS-DOS games to run on Windows 95: Too much EMM memory April 25, 2016 Apr 25, 2016 04/25/16 Raymond Chen Now that you got it, you need to find a place to put it.
Should I be concerned that WaitForSingleObject is taking a large percentage of my performance test’s execution time April 22, 2016 Apr 22, 2016 04/22/16 Raymond Chen What you've got there, my friend, is a WaitForSingleObject stress test.
It rather involved being on the other side of this airtight hatchway: Invalid parameters from one security level crashing code at the same security level (doesn’t get old) April 21, 2016 Apr 21, 2016 04/21/16 Raymond Chen You never crossed a security boundary.
Why are mouse wheel messages delivered to the focus window instead of the window under the mouse? April 20, 2016 Apr 20, 2016 04/20/16 Raymond Chen Keyboard modifiers.
Why is there a screen that says “It is now safe to turn off your computer”? April 19, 2016 Apr 19, 2016 04/19/16 Raymond Chen Because that's when you know.
Getting MS-DOS games to run on Windows 95: Too much memory! April 18, 2016 Apr 18, 2016 04/18/16 Raymond Chen Another case of intentionally under-reporting memory.