The Old New Thing

Why does Task Manager disappear briefly when you switch it into or out of Always on top?

May 2, 2023 May 2, 2023 05/2/23

Raymond Chen

Ascending to another plane of existence.

A code comment noting the steps to take when a 256th enum field is added

April 25, 2023 Apr 25, 2023 04/25/23

Raymond Chen

A note for my future self.

No, it is not a security vulnerability that there is no certificate of appreciation for reporting a bug

April 18, 2023 Apr 18, 2023 04/18/23

Raymond Chen

It wasn't even a bug report.

Why is there a large gap between some of the Windows system metrics indices?

April 10, 2023 Apr 10, 2023 04/10/23

Raymond Chen

An artifact of the internal implementation.

Adventures in application compatibility: The case of the jump into the middle of an instruction from nowhere

March 24, 2023 Mar 24, 2023 03/24/23

Raymond Chen

Another rogue patcher.

Why does the usage of the initial registers of a Win32 process depend on whether it is a 32-bit or 64-bit process?

March 21, 2023 Mar 21, 2023 03/21/23

Raymond Chen

Well, I mean, it's a different processor.

Once you give away the farm, you can’t take it back: Recovering from a rogue administrator

February 28, 2023 Feb 28, 2023 02/28/23

Raymond Chen

Who knows what happened to it while you weren't looking.

Microspeak: Light reading (ironic)

February 21, 2023 Feb 21, 2023 02/21/23

Raymond Chen

Just a fun diversion.

It rather involved being on the other side of this airtight hatchway: Reading the user’s saved passwords

February 6, 2023 Feb 6, 2023 02/6/23

Raymond Chen

Only the user can read their own saved passwords, so you must already have gained total control over the user.