The Old New Thing
Practical development throughout the evolution of Windows.
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Aug 14, 2026
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Forcing an ARM64X executable to run as a specific architecture
You can request the target machine architecture.
Aug 13, 2026
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A little helper class for managing LPPROC_THREAD_ATTRIBUTE_LIST s
Another RAII-style wrapper.
Aug 12, 2026
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The comments that go into code versus those that go into the pull request description
Understanding the temporal relevance.
Aug 11, 2026
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The little-known winstart.bat batch file
It had been there long before Windows 95, but nobody remembered.
Aug 10, 2026
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How can I perform a CopyFile in unbuffered mode?
Try one of the fancier alternatives to <CODE>CopyFile</CODE>.
Aug 7, 2026
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Creating a fake agile wrapper that is technically agile but is not useful outside its home apartment, part 5
Cheating with <CODE>std::unique_ptr</CODE>.
Aug 6, 2026
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Creating a fake agile wrapper that is technically agile but is not useful outside its home apartment, part 4
Moving things around if possible.
Aug 5, 2026
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Creating a fake agile wrapper that is technically agile but is not useful outside its home apartment, part 3
Forcing an object into the global interface table.
Aug 4, 2026
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Creating a fake agile wrapper that is technically agile but is not useful outside its home apartment, part 2
Using a reference stored in the global interface table.