The Old New Thing
Practical development throughout the evolution of Windows.
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Jan 6, 2016
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Why does the mouse cursor jump a few pixels when you right-click on the Start button?
To make it easy to click the first item.
Jan 5, 2016
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Why did Windows NT decline to support an undocumented flag to TrackPopupMenuEx?
Duh.
Jan 4, 2016
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Slam City with Scottie Pippen (1995): A flashback
No video? No problem.
Jan 1, 2016
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If you want to receive a message that is broadcast to top-level windows, you need a top-level window
Stands to reason.
Dec 31, 2015
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2015 year-end link clearance
More random stuff.
Dec 30, 2015
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Why is my call to ChangeTimerQueueTimer having no effect? (And another case of looking past the question to solve the problem.)
Because it's too late.
Dec 29, 2015
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Why are Windows setup logs stored in a Panther directory? Does it have anything to do with the abandoned Panther project from the precursor to Windows 95?
Unrelated.
Dec 28, 2015
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Determining how each Explorer window is sorted
Ask for the sort criteria.
Dec 25, 2015
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When is the correct time to call FreeLibraryWhenCallbackReturns?
Any time during the execution of the callback is fine.