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When you copy multiple files in Windows Vista, the progress dialog gives you an estimate of the time remaining as well as an indication of what fraction of the operation has been completed. But one thing it doesn't tell you is the name of the file currently being copied. Why not? The programmer responsible for the file copy progress dialog in Wind...

Recall that a corrupted program sometimes results in a "Program too big to fit in memory" error. In response, Dog complained that while that may have been a reasonable response back in the 1980's, in today's world, there's plenty of memory around for the MS-DOS emulator to add that extra check and return a better error code. Well yeah, but if yo...

There are six styles available to the static controls which draw frames and rectangles in one of three fixed colors: But if you actually create a static control with one of these styles, you'll find that the color isn't actually black, gray, or white. So why are they called black, gray, and white? Because they used to be black, gray, and white....

bhiggins asks about the mysterious function that existed in some versions of the Win32 documentation. I went digging through the MSDN archives and was close to giving up and declaring the cause lost, but then I found it: A copy of the documentation. EnumClaw The EnumClaw function returns the child or the parent of the window whose HWND is...

Because that's what you do when DVDs show up.

It's a long, sad story.

Some time ago, Michael Kaplan asked (and answered), How the @#%&*! does choose to sort it all out? One detail in his answer is that the sorting algorithm used by is basically , with special treatment for the left square bracket U+005B. Why is the left square bracket so special? It goes back to the message (which is in turn used by , , , a...

While it's true that the cheesy Steve Ballmer Windows video had bad music, bad hair, and bad acting, it's also true that all that cheese was intentional. That video was produced for and shown at the Company Meeting, back when a mainstay of the Company Meeting was spoofs of popular television advertisements—what today would be called "virall...

Darek Mihocka, proprietor of emulators.com, and whom I linked to a few years ago, released the source code to Atari ST emulator Gemulator 9.0, and in celebration, he also posted his 1992 promotional video to YouTube: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3. Warning: It's a really bad video. The music, the hair, the cheesy video effects, the bad acting, oh ...

Commenter eric johnson wonders how that control panel keyboard autorepeat setting works. This is one of those questions that has many answers, depending on how deep you want to dig. The first layer of the question is how the control panel changes the keyboard autorepeat rate. That's simple: It uses . From the documentation, you can see that the ...