Sep 29, 2016 Post comments count0 Post likes count1 The lackey catastrophe Raymond Chen You know it will be done, but you don't know when.
Sep 28, 2016 Post comments count0 Post likes count1 When can you free the memory backing the HSTRING you created with WindowsCreateStringReference? Raymond Chen Nothing you haven't had to deal with already.
Sep 26, 2016 Post comments count0 Post likes count1 It says that I should use USB usage page 1 and usage 6 to get raw keyboard data, but what if I have a PS/2 keyboard? Raymond Chen The numbers came from the USB HID specification, but that doesn't require the keyboard to be USB.
Sep 21, 2016 Post comments count0 Post likes count1 The case of the system() call that returned before finishing Raymond Chen Study the output more carefully.
Sep 19, 2016 Post comments count0 Post likes count1 It’s an unfortunate choice of data type for the file system redirection cookie Raymond Chen The untyped pointer strikes again.
Sep 16, 2016 Post comments count0 Post likes count1 Does the page table entry really have a sad-face for pages that are reserved? Raymond Chen Not exactly, but it's not as silly a question as it sounds.
Sep 15, 2016 Post comments count0 Post likes count1 Decoding the parameters of a thrown C++ exception (0xE06D7363), revisited Raymond Chen The mysterious second parameter.
Sep 14, 2016 Post comments count0 Post likes count1 What exactly does the msWindowLength parameter to SetThreadpoolTimer mean? Raymond Chen It's the maximum delay, but never the maximum anticipation.
Sep 12, 2016 Post comments count0 Post likes count1 How can I have a window that rejects activation but still receives pointer input? Raymond Chen The obscure return values of the WM_MOUSEACTIVATE message.
Sep 9, 2016 Post comments count0 Post likes count1 How can I get the memory manager to prefetch bigger chunks of data from my memory-mapped file? Raymond Chen Explicit prefetch.