The Old New Thing

Commenter Neil presumes that Windows 286 and later simply fixed up the movable entry table with jmp selector:offset instructions once and for all. It could ...

A customer wanted to know how to get the location of the taskbar on secondary monitors. "I know that will tell me the location of the taskbar on the primary ...

A LEGO set to measure Planck's constant...

A security vulnerability report came in that went something like this: Disclosure of arbitrary data from any user An attacker can obtain arbitrary data from...

A customer discovered the following behavior when they set up roaming user profiles on their domain. Consider two machines, 1 and 2. An application&...

One of my colleagues used to work as an IT consultant, and one of his clients was a tobacco company. Since they were a tobacco company, the company policy on ...

There are a few ways to load constants into SSE registers. Load them from memory. Load them from general purpose registers via . Insert selected bits ...

You might think that the function would tell you whether a SID is well-known, but it doesn't. Rather, it tells you whether a SID exactly matches the well-...

The structure has an member which contains a number of bits describing the state of the item being drawn. How do those states map to the underlying control? ...