The Old New Thing

What are the requirements for the built-in Windows 10 camera-based barcode scanner?

November 30, 2020 Nov 30, 2020 11/30/20

Raymond Chen

Basically, it needs to be able to get a good picture.

Disk and File I/O performance with ETW traces: Miscellany

November 27, 2020 Nov 27, 2020 11/27/20

Raymond Chen

A few other columns.

Disk and File I/O performance with ETW traces: Why is System doing so much stuff?

November 26, 2020 Nov 26, 2020 11/26/20

Raymond Chen

The System does many things, or at least many things are blamed on it.

Preliminary notes on analyzing Disk and File I/O performance with ETW traces

November 25, 2020 Nov 25, 2020 11/25/20

Raymond Chen

Deciphering the numbers.

Why does the disk optimizer put boot files at low-numbered sectors?

November 24, 2020 Nov 24, 2020 11/24/20

Raymond Chen

Taking advantage of disk geometry.

Virtual desktops are an end-user window management feature, not a programmatic one

November 23, 2020 Nov 23, 2020 11/23/20

Raymond Chen

It's for users to organize their windows, not for programs to organize them.

How thread-safe is the Windows Runtime PropertySet object?

November 20, 2020 Nov 20, 2020 11/20/20

Raymond Chen

It's thread-safe as far as it goes, but you may want to go further.

Other uses for the -library flag of the C++/WinRT compiler

November 19, 2020 Nov 19, 2020 11/19/20

Raymond Chen

Injecting a little something extra.

On combining static libraries that implement C++/WinRT activatable objects

November 18, 2020 Nov 18, 2020 11/18/20

Raymond Chen

Separating the shared names, so you can combine them yourself.

One senior executive’s warning about escalating conflicts to upper management

November 17, 2020 Nov 17, 2020 11/17/20

Raymond Chen

You're not gonna like what you get.