Mar 31, 2015
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What was the relationship between Outlook and Outlook Express?
Raymond Chen
None.
Showing results for March 2015 - The Old New Thing
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Mar 30, 2015
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I want you to chase your sisters until they throw up
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Heaven for little boys.
Mar 30, 2015
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How do I make a boldface item on a context menu?
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The menu default item.
Mar 27, 2015
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Flaw reported in Windows 95
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And a note from Mom.
Mar 26, 2015
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Switching on a tuple: Sneaky trick
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Data packing.
Mar 25, 2015
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What's the difference between PathIsSystemFolder and Protected Operating System Files?
Raymond Chen
The way to detect weird directories that should be excluded from the user interface is to check for the and attributes being set simultaneously. This is the mechanism used when you uncheck Hide protected operating system files in the Folder Options dialog. (Programmatically, you detect whether the user wants to see protected operating system ...
Mar 24, 2015
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A Venn diagram demonstrating the dining options in one of the new cafeterias
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Spelling out the options.
Mar 23, 2015
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CancelIoEx can cancel I/O on console input, which is kind of nice
Raymond Chen
Stop that input.
Mar 20, 2015
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Finding the constructor by scanning memory for the vtable
Raymond Chen
Reversal of fortune.
Mar 19, 2015
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Sure, we have RegisterWindowMessage and RegisterClipboardFormat, but where are DeregisterWindowMessage and DeregisterClipboardFormat?
Raymond Chen
It not going away.