The Old New Thing

It prevents access to the tools, but not to the registry itself.

Why such a complicated way to pull the type from the pack?

Who is corrupting the map?

Because the listview control uses it to optimize searching.

Following the standard pattern.

Is that really you?

Just because there's nothing in it doesn't mean it's not valid.

You can pretend to merge it and see if anything happens.

Well, at least it wasn't activated by a click.