The Old New Thing

How do I keep thread pool threads, or other threads in general, from competing with my render thread for CPU?

March 9, 2017 Mar 9, 2017 03/9/17

Raymond Chen

You assign them to the default CPU set.

How do we improve the performance of conhost processes when we ping a bunch of servers?

March 8, 2017 Mar 8, 2017 03/8/17

Raymond Chen

How about avoiding them entirely?

Microspeak: to reason over

March 7, 2017 Mar 7, 2017 03/7/17

Raymond Chen

To make programmatic decisions based on, usually to produce a higher-level result.

Some internal developer chatter on a bug that caused your screen to turn black

March 6, 2017 Mar 6, 2017 03/6/17

Raymond Chen

A little dry humor for your amusement.

The case of the 32-bit program that tries to load a 64-bit DLL

March 3, 2017 Mar 3, 2017 03/3/17

Raymond Chen

A continuing saga which ultimately comes to a resolution.

What happens when you tell a Millennial to take pictures of a party

March 2, 2017 Mar 2, 2017 03/2/17

Raymond Chen

Oh, how tasty.

Don’t forget to implement canonical names for verbs in your shell context menu extension

March 2, 2017 Mar 2, 2017 03/2/17

Raymond Chen

The system uses it to find you later.

Want to include a gift message with your tires? Nice try.

March 1, 2017 Mar 1, 2017 03/1/17

Raymond Chen

You'll have to show your love some other way.

Why does my attempt to acquire an SRW lock block even though !locks report no locks held?

March 1, 2017 Mar 1, 2017 03/1/17

Raymond Chen

!locks is looking for critical sections.