Sure I can protect data with CryptProtectData, but how do I remove the ability to decrypt it? July 18, 2018 Jul 18, 2018 07/18/18 Raymond Chen You can put a secret in the nonce, though it's not really a secret by that point.
What is this vmmem program that is using up all my CPU and memory? July 17, 2018 Jul 17, 2018 07/17/18 Raymond Chen That's where your virtual machine resource usage goes.
Internal training video on expense reports contains inconsistency: Alert the media! July 16, 2018 Jul 16, 2018 07/16/18 Raymond Chen Was this a test? I'm not sure.
Warning: Ruler is not to scale July 13, 2018 Jul 13, 2018 07/13/18 Raymond Chen Inches enlarged to show texture.
When generating a random password, the result must still be a valid string July 13, 2018 Jul 13, 2018 07/13/18 Raymond Chen Invalid strings can't round trip through multiple encodings.
Why does a non-recursive ReadDirectoryChangesW still report files created inside subdirectories? July 12, 2018 Jul 12, 2018 07/12/18 Raymond Chen Because they do affect the top-level directory.
Const methods don’t prevent a method from having side effects July 11, 2018 Jul 11, 2018 07/11/18 Raymond Chen Though they shouldn't if you know what's good for you, but the compiler doesn't know whether you know what's good for you.
How do I change the password of another user without having to sign in as them? July 10, 2018 Jul 10, 2018 07/10/18 Raymond Chen You can do it from the password change screen.
Stop merging if you need to cherry-pick July 9, 2018 Jul 9, 2018 07/9/18 Raymond Chen An opposing view from the VSTS team.
The case of the very large memory blocks of the same size, mostly zero, but whose nonzero bytes follow a pattern July 6, 2018 Jul 6, 2018 07/6/18 Raymond Chen Some initial pattern recognition, followed by an ad-hoc tool.