{"id":103549,"date":"2020-03-10T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-03-10T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/?p=103549"},"modified":"2020-03-09T20:32:00","modified_gmt":"2020-03-10T03:32:00","slug":"20200310-00","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/20200310-00\/?p=103549","title":{"rendered":"The sad but short story of the <CODE>SM_AccessoriesName<\/CODE> registry value"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <code>SM_AccessoriesName<\/code> is another victim of programs that reach into undocumented sections of the registry.<\/p>\n<p>This registry value was never documented since it existed for internal use, and for the 64-bit release of Windows, we finally were able to get rid of it in some circumstances.<\/p>\n<p>Until the application compatibility team found a major program that used it. So back it goes, at least for now, until they can figure out a way to keep that program happy while still removing the value.\u00b9 (Perhaps they may be able to shim it.)<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Why not just break the program and tell the vendor to fix their busted program?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Easier said than done. The vendor of this particular program happens to be a vicious competitor of Microsoft, who in the past has been known to <a href=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/20190225-00\/?p=101068\"> complain loudly to anyone who will listen<\/a> that Microsoft intentionally breaks their programs in order to gain a competitive advantage. Breaking their program would just be inviting another lawsuit. &#8220;Microsoft once again wields its monopoly power to punish competitors.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Such is the life of the application compatibility team.<\/p>\n<p>\u00b9 I just went back and checked, and in Windows 10, the registry value is finally gone. Only took, what, 10 years?<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Another victim of programs that reach into undocumented sections of the registry.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1069,"featured_media":111744,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2],"class_list":["post-103549","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-oldnewthing","tag-history"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>Another victim of programs that reach into undocumented sections of the registry.<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103549","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1069"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=103549"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103549\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/111744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=103549"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=103549"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=103549"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}