The Old New Thing
Practical development throughout the evolution of Windows.
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Oct 2, 2015
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Hacking the law: On the role of the marriage officiant in the State of Washington
Strange rules that basically mean there are no meaningful rules.
Oct 2, 2015
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Calling ShutdownBlockReasonCreate from my service doesn’t stop the user from shutting down
That's not how to do it from a service.
Oct 1, 2015
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If you can’t remember the exact text of a dialog box (so you can search for it), you can ask the Internet
Search ju-jitsu, v2.
Sep 30, 2015
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Why can’t I create a file equal to the available disk space?
Gotta save the metadata somewhere.
Sep 29, 2015
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The trust relationship between this workstation and the primary domain failed, what does this mean?
The secret password every machine has.
Sep 28, 2015
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What happens to lost timer messages if I don’t process them fast enough?
They never existed.
Sep 25, 2015
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Why doesn’t my keyboard hook get called for keyboard messages I manually posted?
Because that's not input.
Sep 24, 2015
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How do I call SetTimer with a timer ID that is guaranteed not to conflict with any other timer ID?
Put it in its own window.
Sep 23, 2015
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It rather involved being on the other side of this airtight hatchway: Elevation from Administrator to SYSTEM
But you're already there.