Short-circuiting the easiest case. The post Making an agile version of a Windows Runtime delegate in C++/WinRT, part 2 appeared first on The Old New Thing.

The easy case is easy. The post Making an agile version of a Windows Runtime delegate in C++/WinRT, part 1 appeared first on The Old New Thing.

It's fixed, but the fix isn't getting there. The post Why has the display control panel pointer truncation bug gone unfixed for so long? appeared first on The Old New Thing.

Inferring the code's history. The post Speculating on how the buggy control panel extension truncated a value that it had right in front of it appeared first on The Old New Thing.

Watching the bits disappear. The post The case of the invalid function pointer when shutting down the display control panel appeared first on The Old New Thing.

Please, tell me more. The post Microspeak: Double-click and drill down appeared first on The Old New Thing.

Guard pages all the way down? The post Why don’t we just make the entire stack out of guard pages? appeared first on The Old New Thing.

Decoding where those integer came from. The post The case of the mysterious changes to integers when there shouldn’t have been any code generation effect appeared first on The Old New Thing.

You need to rebuild everything that was dependent on the change. The post I’ve decoded a <CODE>#pragma detect_mismatch</CODE> error and fixed the mismatch, but I still get the error appeared first on The Old New Thing.

A two-in-one package. The post The other kind of control flow guard check: The combined validate and call appeared first on The Old New Thing.

It used some heuristics. The post How did Windows 95 decide that a setup program ran? appeared first on The Old New Thing.

You can't change your mind, but you can do it a different way. The post I opened a file with <CODE>FILE_<WBR>FLAG_<WBR>DELETE_<WBR>ON_<WBR>CLOSE</CODE>, but now I changed my mind appeared first on The Old New Thing.

Contextual clues. The post How did we conclude that <TT>CcNamespace.dll</TT> was the ringleader of a group of DLLs that unloaded prematurely? appeared first on The Old New Thing.

Oops, I didn't realize that I was still doing that. The post The case of the thread executing from an unloaded third-party DLL appeared first on The Old New Thing.

Unlocking the door from the inside. The post It rather involved being on the other side of this airtight hatchway: Changing administrative settings appeared first on The Old New Thing.

Made it to another midpoint. The post 2026 mid-year link clearance appeared first on The Old New Thing.

Finding an illicit place to hide data. The post A compatibility note on the abuse of Windows window class extra bytes appeared first on The Old New Thing.

The intended usage is encoded in the prefix. The post The evolution of window and class extra bytes in Windows appeared first on The Old New Thing.

Tying two bugs together. The post The case of the DLL that was not present in memory despite not being formally unloaded, part 2 appeared first on The Old New Thing.

Subtlety. The post Raymond’s hot take on Hainanese chicken appeared first on The Old New Thing.

Figuring out how it went missing. The post The case of the DLL that was not present in memory despite not being formally unloaded, part 1 appeared first on The Old New Thing.

You're asking for it to cancel, but it doesn't wait for confirmation. The post Cancellation of Windows Runtime activities is asynchronous appeared first on The Old New Thing.

Yes, but the name is a psychological trick. The post Microspeak elaborated: Isn’t escrow just a release candidate by another name? appeared first on The Old New Thing.

Starting in Word and expanding to nearly every other word processor, and even things that aren't word processors. The post In memory of the man who put red and green squiggles under words appeared first on The Old New Thing.

A special kind of HMODULE. The post What does it mean when the bottom bit of my <CODE>HMODULE</CODE> is set? appeared first on The Old New Thing.

It doesn't care about impersonation, says so on the tin. The post Why doesn’t <CODE>Get­Last­Input­Info()</CODE> return info for the user I’m impersonating? appeared first on The Old New Thing.

Choosing the register to use to pass the desired stack allocation size. The post Windows stack limit checking retrospective, follow-up appeared first on The Old New Thing.

It was carefully designed to be trivial. The post Retrofitting the <CODE>WM_<WBR>COPY­DATA</CODE> message onto Windows 3.1 appeared first on The Old New Thing.

Offensive content in the eyes of a software engineer. The post The time the x86 emulator team found code so bad that they fixed it during emulation appeared first on The Old New Thing.

The thread pool is designed for throughput, not latency. The post How can I schedule work on a thread pool with low latency? appeared first on The Old New Thing.