The Old New Thing
Practical development throughout the evolution of Windows.
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Sep 16, 2024
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Some notes on Win32 carets
Assorted notes and musings.
Sep 13, 2024
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The case of the fail-fast crashes coming from the power management system
Understanding why it decided to fail fast.
Sep 12, 2024
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How can I tell whether two programs will share drive letter mappings?
You can compare the authentication IDs.
Sep 11, 2024
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The case of the string being copied from a mysterious pointer to invalid memory, revisited
Reflections on an older topic.
Sep 10, 2024
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Does the Resource Compiler have a separate preprocessor or doesn’t it?
It did, but now it doesn't.
Sep 9, 2024
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GitHub trick to find the commit that deleted a file
Ask for the history of the file.
Sep 6, 2024
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The case of the image that came out horribly slanted: Negative stride
It's all topsy-turvy.
Sep 5, 2024
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The case of the image that came out horribly slanted: Taking the pitch into account
Getting the pieces to line up.
Sep 4, 2024
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The case of the image that came out horribly slanted: Diagnosis
Imperfect pitch.