Why does the mouse cursor jump a few pixels if you right-click on the Start button?

Raymond Chen May 11, 2021 May 11, 2021 05/11/21

To give you a head start.

SEO spammers don’t really understand who they spammed

Raymond Chen March 24, 2021 Mar 24, 2021 03/24/21

Maybe we can help you.

Hardware engineers solve a usability problem with the PS/2 connector, but inadvertently create a new one

Raymond Chen February 16, 2021 Feb 16, 2021 02/16/21

What's the difference between a mouse and a keyboard?

A metric that is consistently at 100% is probably broken

Raymond Chen February 2, 2021 Feb 2, 2021 02/2/21

They say that you get what you measure.

How did I find the old Windows binaries and compilers for the processor retrospective series?

Raymond Chen January 11, 2021 Jan 11, 2021 01/11/21

Going through old virtual boxes of stuff.

The humor hiding behind “JavaScript error: Semicolon expected”

Raymond Chen December 4, 2020 Dec 4, 2020 12/4/20

Apparently not automatic enough.

Disk and File I/O performance with ETW traces: Miscellany

Raymond Chen November 27, 2020 Nov 27, 2020 11/27/20

A few other columns.

Disk and File I/O performance with ETW traces: Why is System doing so much stuff?

Raymond Chen November 26, 2020 Nov 26, 2020 11/26/20

The System does many things, or at least many things are blamed on it.

Preliminary notes on analyzing Disk and File I/O performance with ETW traces

Raymond Chen November 25, 2020 Nov 25, 2020 11/25/20

Deciphering the numbers.

Why does the disk optimizer put boot files at low-numbered sectors?

Raymond Chen November 24, 2020 Nov 24, 2020 11/24/20

Taking advantage of disk geometry.