The Old New Thing

How can I get a signature for a Windows system that will remain unchanged even if the user reinstalls Windows?

January 31, 2018 Jan 31, 2018 01/31/18

Raymond Chen

The SystemIdentification class will give you something.

Communication by hand signals, and other complex coordination problems

January 30, 2018 Jan 30, 2018 01/30/18

Raymond Chen

The secret language.

Why does hypervisor remain enabled even when Hyper-V is disabled in Windows Features?

January 30, 2018 Jan 30, 2018 01/30/18

Raymond Chen

Because somebody else needs it.

Microspeak sighting: over-index

January 29, 2018 Jan 29, 2018 01/29/18

Raymond Chen

It's like birdwatching, but for words.

Well that was a helpful error message

January 29, 2018 Jan 29, 2018 01/29/18

Raymond Chen

I guess they don't know what went wrong either.

The saga of Heartland vs. The United States Beet Sugar Association

January 26, 2018 Jan 26, 2018 01/26/18

Raymond Chen

Is molasses a foreign substance with respect to sugar?

How can I reserve a range of address space and create nonzero memory on demand when the program reads or writes a page in the range, even when multithreading?

January 26, 2018 Jan 26, 2018 01/26/18

Raymond Chen

Some memory mapping magic.

Like love, taxes make people do the strangest things

January 25, 2018 Jan 25, 2018 01/25/18

Raymond Chen

Tariff engineering.

How can I reserve a range of address space and create nonzero memory on demand when the program reads or writes a page in the range?

January 25, 2018 Jan 25, 2018 01/25/18

Raymond Chen

Swizzle me this.

How can I reserve a range of address space and receive notifications when the program first reads or writes a page in the range?

January 24, 2018 Jan 24, 2018 01/24/18

Raymond Chen

Be in the exception handler chain.