The Old New Thing

Practical development throughout the evolution of Windows.

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Mar 29, 2016
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Why doesn’t a program show up on the Start menu’s Recently Used Programs list if I just used it to open a document?

Raymond Chen

You have to actually use the program directly, at least once.

Mar 28, 2016
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Getting MS-DOS games to run on Windows 95: Virtual memory

Raymond Chen

Memory access is uniform and free, right?

Mar 25, 2016
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Fixing a floating point exception when operating on NaN

Raymond Chen

Generate it at compile time.

Mar 24, 2016
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Why does PathIsUNC say that paths that begin with \\?\ are not UNCs?

Raymond Chen

Because they aren't.

Mar 23, 2016
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Don’t be helpless: You can find information too, if you try (episode 3)

Raymond Chen

Look around you.

Mar 22, 2016
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How can I find out how much disk space the WinSxS folder is really occupying?

Raymond Chen

Untangling the links.

Mar 21, 2016
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Were there specific criteria for making a game work at all costs vs. leaving it be if it had problems too weird to debug?

Raymond Chen

It was basically up to me.

Mar 18, 2016
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What are the consequences of reserving a huge amount of memory, most of which is never committed?

Raymond Chen

It's mostly harmless now.

Mar 17, 2016
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Why not use weak linking to solve the retargetable library problem?

Raymond Chen

A discussion.

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