The Old New Thing

2017 year-end link clearance

December 29, 2017 Dec 29, 2017 12/29/17

Raymond Chen

Another year passes.

How does Resource Monitor get information for processes that already terminated?

December 28, 2017 Dec 28, 2017 12/28/17

Raymond Chen

It's an optical illusion.

Why do I have to pass a valid page protection value to VirtualAlloc even if it ignores it?

December 27, 2017 Dec 27, 2017 12/27/17

Raymond Chen

It ignores it, after it validates it.

Microspeak: over-index

December 26, 2017 Dec 26, 2017 12/26/17

Raymond Chen

To give too much prominence to something in a discussion or analysis.

Time travel is here, at least when it comes to debugging

December 25, 2017 Dec 25, 2017 12/25/17

Raymond Chen

A present for all the developers out there.

Exposing undefined behavior when trying to port code to another platform

December 22, 2017 Dec 22, 2017 12/22/17

Raymond Chen

Oops, that wasn't allowed after all.

What’s the difference between VARIANT and VARIANTARG?

December 21, 2017 Dec 21, 2017 12/21/17

Raymond Chen

Well, is it an argument?

How do I ShellExecute a file, but with a specific program instead of the default program?

December 20, 2017 Dec 20, 2017 12/20/17

Raymond Chen

Count the ways.

How does Task Manager categorize processes as App, Background Process, or Windows Process?

December 19, 2017 Dec 19, 2017 12/19/17

Raymond Chen

It's a made-up term.

On the little-documented role of the page-turner

December 18, 2017 Dec 18, 2017 12/18/17

Raymond Chen

Intended to be invisible.