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The case of the CreateFileMapping that always reported ERROR_ALREADY_EXISTS
1 day ago
A customer reported that whenever their program called CreateFileMapping to create a...
A constant-space linear-time algorithm for deleting all but the 10 most recent files in a directory
2 days ago
Say you have a directory full of files, and you want to...
The case of the hang when the user changed keyboard layouts
3 days ago
A customer reported that their program hung when the user changed keyboard...
Why do Windows client editions on 32-bit x86 systems artificially limit RAM to 4 GB?
4 days ago
Windows XP SP 2 introduced Data Execution Prevention (DEP), which takes advantage...
Additional notes on controlling which handles are inherited by CreateProcess
5 days ago
Some time ago, I wrote about programmatically controlling which handles are inherited...
Developing more confidence when tracking renames via ReadDirectoryChangesW
8 days ago
A customer was using ReadDirectoryChangesW to monitor the contents of a directory...
When you upgrade your resource strings to Unicode, don’t forget to specify the L prefix
9 days ago
Some time ago, I discussed how the Resource Compiler defaults to CP_ACP...
Why not have changes in API behavior depend on the SDK you link against?
10 days ago
Some time ago, I noted that the CoInitializeSecurity function demands an absolute...
A dispute over the TAB key highlights a mismatch between Microsoft and IBM organizational structures
11 days ago
I’ve written in the past about the cultural mismatch between Microsoft and...
How do I inform Windows that I’m writing a binary file?
12 days ago
A customer wanted to know how to inform Windows that they were...
Developing a cross-process reader/writer lock with limited readers, part 4: Abandonment
15 days ago
We’ve been building a cross-process reader/writer lock with a cap on the...
Developing a cross-process reader/writer lock with limited readers, part 3: Fairness
16 days ago
We’ve been building a cross-process reader/writer lock with a cap on the...