Another round of short answers to questions in the suggestion box. <\/p>\n
The window maximizes to the monitor selected by You can’t. In the battle between kernel mode and user mode, user mode loses. That’s why we have a distinction between kernel mode and user mode in the first place. <\/p>\n<\/dd>\n I don’t even understand the question. And it is<\/i> a blocking call. The function doesn’t return until the user responds to the message box. <\/p>\n<\/dd>\n The window handle is used as the parent for any dialogs or messages that the It’s called I don’t know either. I’ve never needed to do that. (I try to get eight hours each night.) <\/p>\n<\/dd>\n They were limited to 16 colors on Windows 95 to conserve memory. Windows 2000 inherited that code and by default, each version of Windows works the same as the previous one. There are millions of lines of code in the shell. It’s not like somebody goes through every single one of them and says, “Gosh, should we change this line in the next version of Windows?” <\/p>\n<\/dd>\n Nope. It wasn’t in K&R C, so it’s not part of my world view. And incautious use of This statement is patently false. We’ve seen that even without taking any special precautions, we were able to pack about 2000 threads into a process before running out of address space<\/a>. What the person probably meant to write is that 32-bit Windows supports a maximum of 32 processors<\/i>. The reason is that the functions that manage sets of processors (such as It’s a shell namespace extension junction point. <\/p>\n<\/dd>\n I don’t think there’s a profound reason for it. Each API designer is empowered to decide how their functions will work. After all, the original I’m not sure what you mean by “lose track of icons”. Maybe you’re asking about lost change notifications (in which case redirected folders can cause problems with lost network notifications). Or maybe you’re talking about icon repositioning (maybe the previous icon locations weren’t saved). <\/p>\n<\/dd>\n I inadvertently answered this question in a rather long series of articles<\/a> on DLL imports and exports, and a discussion of cross-module memory allocation<\/a>. <\/p>\n<\/dd>\n I thought that too, until I saw them. When you get over a million hits a month, a list of all the referrals is just a giant pile of noise. I haven’t bothered analyzing the referrals because I have other things to do in my spare time that are more interesting. <\/p>\n<\/dd>\n How do I know what is obvious to me and not obvious to everyone? <\/p>\n<\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n The next category is, of course, the people who ask questions on things that I listed as topics I am not inclined to cover. <\/p>\n I don’t think your problem really is of general interest. But it’s clear that you’re not respecting the modality of the window<\/a>. <\/p>\n<\/dd>\n This doesn’t strike me as a topic of general interest. <\/p>\n<\/dd>\n I think you confused me with Robert Scoble. <\/p>\n<\/dd>\n This doesn’t strike me as a topic of general interest. <\/p>\n<\/dd>\n Internet Explorer is explicitly on the list of things I am unlikely to cover. <\/p>\n<\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n Or the people who ask questions I’ve already answered or questions I’ve chosen to answer elsewhere. <\/p>\n Doing this breaks servicing<\/a>. <\/p>\n<\/dd>\n And then there are the questions I can’t or choose not to answer. <\/p>\n I don’t know either. It makes sense to force windows on-screen after a change in resolution, but if the resolution didn’t change between the lock and the unlock, there’s really no need to go around “fixing up” window positions. <\/p>\n<\/dd>\n I’m not going to touch this one. I don’t see any upside to my answering it, only downside, and I don’t welcome the flamewar that will doubtless ensue. <\/p>\n<\/dd>\n No. <\/p>\n<\/dd>\n I have no special knowledge about defragmentation. Try The Filing Cabinet<\/a>. They answered a few questions in one blog entry<\/a> and even have a Defrag FAQ<\/a>. Personally, I’ve been happy with Dave Whitney’s defragmenter<\/a> to defragment specifically-targeted files. (I don’t defragment my entire drive because it seems like a waste of time.) <\/p>\n<\/dd>\n I have no special knowledge about Aero glass. <\/p>\n<\/dd>\n I didn’t work on the Windows Vista Start menu, so I don’t know how it works. <\/p>\n<\/dd>\n Sorry, I’m an outsider just like you when it comes to help technologies. <\/p>\n<\/dd>\n I quickly lost interest. <\/p>\n<\/dd>\n I don’t know the answer and I don’t feel like doing the research necessary to find out. Sorry. The fact that I left it unanswered from the previous suggestion box should have been a clue. <\/p>\n<\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n That’s all for this year. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Another round of short answers to questions in the suggestion box. How does Windows choose the monitor a window maximizes to? The window maximizes to the monitor selected by MonitorFromWindow. The algorithm the MonitorFromWindow uses to select the monitor is documented in MSDN. How do you make your Win32 application safe from keyloggers? You can’t. 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The algorithm the MonitorFromWindow<\/code> uses to select the monitor is documented in MSDN. <\/p>\n<\/dd>\nShellExecute<\/code> function may need to display. If you pass NULL<\/code>, then you get the same effect as if you had passed NULL<\/code> to, say, MessageBox<\/code>. In the article, the thread has no UI active, so any error messages displayed by the ShellExecute<\/code> function will appear as top-level unowned windows. I discussed this issue in detail a few years ago<\/a>. If you want to suppress UI, then pass the SEE_MASK_FLAG_NO_UI<\/code> flag to ShellExecuteEx<\/code>. <\/p>\n<\/dd>\nStrCmpLogical<\/code>. Michael Kaplan<\/a> discussed this function two years ago<\/a> with a follow-up last year<\/a>. Of course, if you want to mimic Explorer exactly, you also need to respect the REST_NOSTRCMPLOGICAL<\/code> policy. <\/p>\n<\/dd>\n_alloca<\/code> can result in security vulnerabilities. <\/p>\n<\/dd>\nSetThreadAffinity<\/code>) use a 32-bit value to represent processor masks. Note that for 64-bit Windows, these masks were expanded to 64-bit integers, so 64-bit Windows supports up to 64 processors in principle. <\/p>\n<\/dd>\nstrlen<\/code> function returned a signed integer, too. You might want to ask Brian Kernighan; he was doing it before Windows. (Signed integers do have the slight advantage of being resilient to integer underflow. If a<\/code> and b<\/code> are both non-negative integers, then a - b<\/code> will never underflow.) <\/p>\n<\/dd>\n\n
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