What do the output values from CoGetApartmentType mean? February 8, 2018 Feb 8, 2018 02/8/18 Raymond Chen Four types of threads, possibly in the neutral apartment temporarily.
Why does misinterpreting UTF16-LE Unicode text as ANSI tend to show up as just one character? February 7, 2018 Feb 7, 2018 02/7/18 Raymond Chen Because you're probably working in the ASCII subset.
// If this happens, I am going to quit and become a barista February 5, 2018 Feb 5, 2018 02/5/18 Raymond Chen Maybe you should check if Starbucks is hiring.
The case of the SRWLock violation in a thread pool work item February 2, 2018 Feb 2, 2018 02/2/18 Raymond Chen Application verifier tells the story.
Spurious wake-ups in Win32 condition variables February 1, 2018 Feb 1, 2018 02/1/18 Raymond Chen Another peek behind the curtain.
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.