Why can’t I trigger a manual blue screen crash by injecting the magic key sequence? February 19, 2024 Feb 19, 2024 02/19/24 Raymond Chen It has to come from the physical keyboard, because that's the code that detects the magic key sequence.
If you’re just going to sit there doing nothing, at least do nothing correctly February 16, 2024 Feb 16, 2024 02/16/24 Raymond Chen How to be inert.
Registered command lines are just command lines, not a programming language February 15, 2024 Feb 15, 2024 02/15/24 Raymond Chen If you want a programming language, you know where to find one.
Functions that return the size of a required buffer generally return upper bounds, not tight bounds February 14, 2024 Feb 14, 2024 02/14/24 Raymond Chen An over-estimate is better than an under-estimate.
It rather involved being on the other side of this airtight hatchway: Attacking a domain administrator from the local administrator February 13, 2024 Feb 13, 2024 02/13/24 Raymond Chen If you pwn the machine, then you pwn everyone on the machine.
How can I get the Windows Runtime HttpClient to display a basic authentication prompt? February 12, 2024 Feb 12, 2024 02/12/24 Raymond Chen You need to give it some help finding the right window.
On the virtues of the trailing comma February 9, 2024 Feb 9, 2024 02/9/24 Raymond Chen A more uniform appearance comes with its own benefits beyond aesthetics.
How do I suppress the error box that appears when a LoadLibrary fails? February 8, 2024 Feb 8, 2024 02/8/24 Raymond Chen They don't appear often, but they do appear occasionally.
Why doesn’t my program get fancy drag/drop effects in high contrast mode with CLSID_DragDropHelper? February 7, 2024 Feb 7, 2024 02/7/24 Raymond Chen You have to upgrade your manifest.
On using milliseconds as a measure of network latency February 6, 2024 Feb 6, 2024 02/6/24 Raymond Chen There's a limit to how much technology can improve.