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Jul 21, 2004
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Why was nine the maximum number of monitors in Windows 98?

Raymond Chen

Windows 98 was the first version of Windows to support multiple monitors. And the limit was nine. Why nine? Because that allowed you to arrange your monitors like this. You have early seventies television to thank. [Raymond is currently on vacation; this message was pre-recorded.]

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Jul 13, 2004
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Watch out for those sample URLs

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When writing documentation, one often has need to come up with a sample URL to illustrate some point or other. When you do, make sure the sample URL is under your control. I remember a Windows beta that used the sample URL http://www.xxxxx.com/ in a dialog box. You can imagine where that actually goes. This web site uses www.wallyworld.co...

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Jul 2, 2004
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Don't name your DLL "Security.dll"

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Reaching back into the history bucket... Some people have discovered that strange things happen if you name your DLL "security.dll". The reason is that there is already a system DLL called "security.dll"; it's the Security Support Provider Interface DLL, and it used to go by the name "security.dll", though nowadays the name "secur32.d...

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Jul 2, 2004
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Don’t name your DLL “Security.dll”

Raymond Chen

Reaching back into the history bucket... Some people have discovered that strange things happen if you name your DLL "security.dll". The reason is that there is already a system DLL called "security.dll"; it's the Security Support Provider Interface DLL, and it used to go by the name "security.dll", though nowadays the name "secur32.d...

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Jul 1, 2004
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Why can't I use the same tree item multiple times?

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It's the continuing balance between ease-of-use and generality. At a literal level, you can't use the same tree items in multiple places in the tree, because then various properties would become ambiguous, properties like TVGN_PARENT or TVIS_EXPANDED. (If a tree could be in two places, then it would have two parents, for example.) Of course...

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Jul 1, 2004
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Why can’t I use the same tree item multiple times?

Raymond Chen

It's the continuing balance between ease-of-use and generality. At a literal level, you can't use the same tree items in multiple places in the tree, because then various properties would become ambiguous, properties like TVGN_PARENT or TVIS_EXPANDED. (If a tree could be in two places, then it would have two parents, for example.) Of course...

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Jun 30, 2004
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Why does the Links folder keep re-creating itself?

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Those of you who dislike the Links folder have probably tried to delete it, only to discover that it keeps coming back. Why is that? This is Internet Explorer trying to do some auto-repair. It noticed that the Links folder is missing, so it figures, "Gosh, it must be corrupted! I'd better fix the problem by creating a replacement." People...

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Jun 24, 2004
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The evolution of dialog templates – Summary

Raymond Chen

As promised, here's the tabular version of the evolution of dialog templates. It doesn't contain any new information, but it may give you a little glimpse into how things evolved to see the small changes highlighted against each other.

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