The Old New Thing

A survey of the various ways of creating GDI bitmaps with predefined data

March 31, 2017 Mar 31, 2017 03/31/17

Raymond Chen

So many to choose from.

For sale: One TARDIS, working (lights), you must pick up from Vancouver

March 30, 2017 Mar 30, 2017 03/30/17

Raymond Chen

Time travel circuits disabled by Time Lords, however.

The gradual erosion of the SEM_NOOPENFILEERRORBOX error mode

March 30, 2017 Mar 30, 2017 03/30/17

Raymond Chen

It does less and less, until it basically does nothing.

A brief discussion on how best to respond to the end-session messages

March 29, 2017 Mar 29, 2017 03/29/17

Raymond Chen

You can start early, but be aware that the user might change their mind.

Explorer is a single-instance application, but you can find other ways to get the effect of running a separate instance

March 28, 2017 Mar 28, 2017 03/28/17

Raymond Chen

Look for the explorer browser helpers.

How real-mode Windows loaded code from the disk, and how you could use that to minimize disk swapping

March 27, 2017 Mar 27, 2017 03/27/17

Raymond Chen

Send in the clones.

When you submit a security vulnerability report, we go the extra mile and try to fix your typos

March 24, 2017 Mar 24, 2017 03/24/17

Raymond Chen

Even if the typo is what confused you.

Responses to various ideas on how to get people to stop using that leaked build

March 23, 2017 Mar 23, 2017 03/23/17

Raymond Chen

Over-engineering the solution.

You can peek to see whether your delay-loaded function loaded successfully

March 22, 2017 Mar 22, 2017 03/22/17

Raymond Chen

Predicting the future.

Why does the volume control let me set the volume only to even numbers?

March 21, 2017 Mar 21, 2017 03/21/17

Raymond Chen

Because pressing Volume-Up 100 times would be really annoying.