Sep 15, 2017
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How can I diagnose why my FreeLibrary isn’t freeing the library?
Application Verifier to the rescue.
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Sep 14, 2017
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Why is my window unexpectedly becoming topmost?
There are a few places where the system will auto-topmost a window.
Sep 13, 2017
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What is the correct way of using the string buffer returned by the WindowsPreallocateStringBuffer function?
Write the characters you allocated, but only those characters.
Sep 12, 2017
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Microspeak: Ripcord
Deploy the emergency parachute.
Sep 11, 2017
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If you configure a program to run in Windows 2000 compatibility mode, then it is also vulnerable to Windows 2000 security issues
Bug-for-bug compatibility.
Sep 8, 2017
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Nasty gotcha: SetThreadUILanguage cannot be used to restore the thread UI language
You have to use some other function entirely.
Sep 7, 2017
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What are anonymous structs, and more importantly, how do I tell windows.h to stop using them?
The struct with no name.
Sep 6, 2017
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Can I enable Large Address Awareness dynamically at runtime?
No, but you can maybe fake it.
Sep 5, 2017
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Does anybody know what really happened on August 25, 2017 at the Red Sox/Orioles game?
A strange thing might have happened, but did it?
Sep 5, 2017
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Why did my systems reboot into the Recovery Environment and how do I prevent that from happening in the future?
You can disable it in the boot configuration.