May 31, 2017 Post comments count0 Post likes count0 Extending our critical section based on WaitOnAddress to support timeouts Raymond Chen Ooh, look, a new feature.
May 30, 2017 Post comments count0 Post likes count0 Why isn’t the original window order always preserved when you undo an Aero Shake? Raymond Chen Acts the same way as undoing a Minimize All, since that's basically what it is.
May 29, 2017 Post comments count0 Post likes count0 Does DebugBreak work to launch the debugger, or doesn’t it? Raymond Chen It does, eventually, but not because it is DebugBreak.
May 26, 2017 Post comments count0 Post likes count0 Why are hidden files with a leading tilde treated as super-hidden? Raymond Chen Because in practice they are ultra-temporary.
May 25, 2017 Post comments count0 Post likes count0 Diagnosing why you cannot create a stable subkey under a volatile parent key Raymond Chen You can't do it, but why is the parent volatile?
May 24, 2017 Post comments count0 Post likes count0 Some questions about unflushed data and calling FlushFileBuffers on a new handle to a file Raymond Chen Will it get flushed out eventually?
May 23, 2017 Post comments count0 Post likes count1 What do these hard drive icons mean? Raymond Chen Various kinds of BitLocker, mostly.
May 22, 2017 Post comments count0 Post likes count0 Why doesn’t searching my Start menu with Cortana find Internet shortcuts in my All Programs list? Raymond Chen Because our A/B testing showed that showing them was worse.
May 19, 2017 Post comments count0 Post likes count0 Debugging a GDI resource leak: Case study Raymond Chen If it leaked once, it'll leak again.
May 18, 2017 Post comments count0 Post likes count0 Why is the !locks command called !locks even though it debugs only critical sections? Raymond Chen Because those were the only kind of locks, back in the day.