Extending our critical section based on WaitOnAddress to support timeouts
May 31, 2017May 31, 201705/31/17Ooh, look, a new feature.
May 31, 2017May 31, 201705/31/17May 31, 2017May 31, 201705/31/17Why isn’t the original window order always preserved when you undo an Aero Shake?
May 30, 2017May 30, 201705/30/17Acts the same way as undoing a Minimize All, since that’s basically what it is.
Does DebugBreak work to launch the debugger, or doesn’t it?
May 29, 2017May 29, 201705/29/17It does, eventually, but not because it is DebugBreak.
Why are hidden files with a leading tilde treated as super-hidden?
May 26, 2017May 26, 201705/26/17Because in practice they are ultra-temporary.
Diagnosing why you cannot create a stable subkey under a volatile parent key
May 25, 2017May 25, 201705/25/17You can’t do it, but why is the parent volatile?
Some questions about unflushed data and calling FlushFileBuffers on a new handle to a file
May 24, 2017May 24, 201705/24/17Will it get flushed out eventually?
What do these hard drive icons mean?
May 23, 2017May 23, 201705/23/17Various kinds of BitLocker, mostly.
Why doesn’t searching my Start menu with Cortana find Internet shortcuts in my All Programs list?
May 22, 2017May 22, 201705/22/17Because our A/B testing showed that showing them was worse.
Debugging a GDI resource leak: Case study
May 19, 2017May 19, 201705/19/17If it leaked once, it’ll leak again.
Why is the !locks command called !locks even though it debugs only critical sections?
May 18, 2017May 18, 201705/18/17Because those were the only kind of locks, back in the day.