The Old New Thing
Practical development throughout the evolution of Windows.
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Sep 13, 2024
The case of the fail-fast crashes coming from the power management system
Understanding why it decided to fail fast.
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Sep 12, 2024
How can I tell whether two programs will share drive letter mappings?
You can compare the authentication IDs.
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Sep 11, 2024
The case of the string being copied from a mysterious pointer to invalid memory, revisited
Reflections on an older topic.
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Sep 10, 2024
Does the Resource Compiler have a separate preprocessor or doesn’t it?
It did, but now it doesn't.
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Sep 9, 2024
GitHub trick to find the commit that deleted a file
Ask for the history of the file.
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Sep 6, 2024
The case of the image that came out horribly slanted: Negative stride
It's all topsy-turvy.
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Sep 5, 2024
The case of the image that came out horribly slanted: Taking the pitch into account
Getting the pieces to line up.
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Sep 4, 2024
The case of the image that came out horribly slanted: Diagnosis
Imperfect pitch.
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Sep 3, 2024
Why did Windows 95 use blue screen error messages instead of hard error messages?
You may not able to get there from here.
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