The Old New Thing

The Old New Thing

The Old New Thing

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

A few other columns.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Deciphering the numbers.

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

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

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

Taking advantage of disk geometry.

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

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

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

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

How thread-safe is the Windows Runtime PropertySet object?

How thread-safe is the Windows Runtime PropertySet object?

Raymond Chen November 20, 2020 Nov 20, 2020 11/20/20

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

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

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

Injecting a little something extra.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

You're not gonna like what you get.