The Old New Thing

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.