Raymond Chen, Author at The Old New Thing

Raymond Chen

Raymond has been involved in the evolution of Windows for more than 25 years. In 2003, he began a Web site known as The Old New Thing which has grown in popularity far beyond his wildest imagination, a development which still gives him the heebie-jeebies. The Web site spawned a book, coincidentally also titled The Old New Thing (Addison Wesley 2007). He currently appears regularly on MSDN Channel 9’s One Dev Minute channel in the One Dev Question video series.

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Why can’t I use `SHSetKnownFolderPath` to change the location of `FOLDERID_LocalAppData`?

January 15th, 2020

A acknowledgement of the reality that it not only doesn't work, but leaves the user profile corrupted.

The historical significance of the Burgermaster drive-in restaurant

January 14th, 2020

You can just phone it in.

It’s not a security vulnerability that users can access files that they have access to, even if the file is a little hard to find

January 13th, 2020

Perhaps it's behind a sign that says Beware of the Leopard.

Over-documenting TTM_RELAYEVENT and why it results in a one-second periodic timer running as long as the tooltip is visible

January 10th, 2020

Too much information leads to trouble.

Raymond Chen

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Why can’t I use `SHSetKnownFolderPath` to change the location of `FOLDERID_LocalAppData`?

The historical significance of the Burgermaster drive-in restaurant

It’s not a security vulnerability that users can access files that they have access to, even if the file is a little hard to find

Over-documenting TTM_RELAYEVENT and why it results in a one-second periodic timer running as long as the tooltip is visible

Tree-walking algorithms: Incrementally performing an inorder walk of a binary tree

Tree-walking algorithms: Incrementally performing a postorder walk of an N-ary tree

Tree-walking algorithms: Incrementally performing a preorder walk of an N-ary tree

Tree-walking algorithms: Incrementally enumerating leaf nodes of an N-ary tree

Anybody who writes `#pragma pack(1)` may as well just wear a sign on their forehead that says “I hate RISC”

Why doesn’t `RegSetKeySecurity` propagate inheritable ACEs, but `SetSecurityInfo` does?

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