The Old New Thing

Why are there four functions for parsing strings into GUIDs, and why are they in three different DLLs?

March 31, 2016 Mar 31, 2016 03/31/16

Raymond Chen

Different historical contexts..

The numerology of the build, redux

March 30, 2016 Mar 30, 2016 03/30/16

Raymond Chen

But why 16?

Why doesn’t a program show up on the Start menu’s Recently Used Programs list if I just used it to open a document?

March 29, 2016 Mar 29, 2016 03/29/16

Raymond Chen

You have to actually use the program directly, at least once.

Getting MS-DOS games to run on Windows 95: Virtual memory

March 28, 2016 Mar 28, 2016 03/28/16

Raymond Chen

Memory access is uniform and free, right?

Fixing a floating point exception when operating on NaN

March 25, 2016 Mar 25, 2016 03/25/16

Raymond Chen

Generate it at compile time.

Why does PathIsUNC say that paths that begin with \\?\ are not UNCs?

March 24, 2016 Mar 24, 2016 03/24/16

Raymond Chen

Because they aren't.

Don’t be helpless: You can find information too, if you try (episode 3)

March 23, 2016 Mar 23, 2016 03/23/16

Raymond Chen

Look around you.

How can I find out how much disk space the WinSxS folder is really occupying?

March 22, 2016 Mar 22, 2016 03/22/16

Raymond Chen

Untangling the links.

Were there specific criteria for making a game work at all costs vs. leaving it be if it had problems too weird to debug?

March 21, 2016 Mar 21, 2016 03/21/16

Raymond Chen

It was basically up to me.

What are the consequences of reserving a huge amount of memory, most of which is never committed?

March 18, 2016 Mar 18, 2016 03/18/16

Raymond Chen

It's mostly harmless now.