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re: The wisdom of seve^H^H^H^Hsixth graders: Living without electronics for a...
The last thing I will do is go skydiving. (haha) Lucky kid his parents must be jumpers to get around the USPA age restrictions. Either that or he went on a holiday to Kiwi land, or Mexico.
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So, no one came up with Lord of the Flies. Kids these days lack imagination.
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re: In the conversion to 64-bit Windows, why were some parameters not...
[It doesn't matter whether you extend the parameter to 64 bits or not, because the maximum size of a single write is 32MB. (Remember that I/O buffers must be locked, and locking 4GB of memory is not...
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>Is Windows really locking all the pages of a ReadFile() call at once Yes, this is about the first thing (along with the handle dereference) done by the I/O manager, for non-buffered requests....
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re: Keyboard shortcut for resizing all columns in a listview control to fit
Wow look at all these clueless people not knowing about AutoHotkey. :D If you find it dubious, run it with your favorite AV scanner or decompile it using the AutoHotkey decompiler and run only the...
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re: Keyboard shortcut for resizing all columns in a listview control to fit
@xpclient AutoHotkey may be safe, but trusting it blindly allows any malicious third party to mimic the executable. And since people believe they are not ignorant and trust AutoHotkey, then it passes...
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re: Keyboard shortcut for resizing all columns in a listview control to fit
I just tried this on Windows 7/64. It sizes the columns to the visible entries in the list. Scrolling the list to show files with longer names shows those names with ellipsis'. This is not what excel...
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re: Keyboard shortcut for resizing all columns in a listview control to fit
How on earth was xpclient's comment even allowed! May I post a link to my most pretentious app-that-may-be-a-script too? It tells Windows 8 to stop feeling the need to ask for a valid key, I'm mostly...
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There is also an additional cost on all basic type changes. If a type changes bits, then you have to repack it from the other subsystem. If you change a type like SIZE_T, you also break cross task...
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re: In the conversion to 64-bit Windows, why were some parameters not...
[I doubt that this lock-the-whole-range-at-once approach is the best way of doing I/O] This would be an unnecessary optimization for obscenely large I/O requests, causing unnecessary complication of...
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re: The TEMP directory is like a public hot tub whose water hasn't been...
Oh, tell me about that. An enterprise backup product of a first tier antivirus/backup vendor installs a DLL to %TEMP% and WILL NOT run if it's not there or doesn't have "execute" permissions. If you...
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>And shlwapi is a HORRIBLE API In case you're wondering why: none of Path* functions has an argument for the buffer size.
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OT: Also, functions like PathFindExtension are documented with "string of maximum length MAX_PATH" which is stupid and would make the internals of the function more complicated for no reason (IIRC the...
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@alegr1: shlwapi is deprecated - new code should be using something else, as shown here: msdn.microsoft.com/.../bb759845%28v=vs.85%29.aspx
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@RaceProUK: SHLWAPI Wrapper functions doesn't seem to mean what you think it means.
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1. I wouldn't be surprised if an application shipping Win2000's shlwapi works just fine on Win7 if it loads that shlwapi. Of course any other application encountering it ... 2. We really need a TMP...
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Joshua - I wrote a small app that scans a directory and deletes app files not created/written to in the last N days. (Directory and # of days are on commandline). I run it on startup on my personal...
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It could be argued that programs that need "temp" things to hang around should just create a folder in "local app data", do what needs done, and clean up after itself later. Leaving "temp" for things...
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@Nathan Mates: You wrote a small app to recreate what the free EMPTEMP program does? Search the Web and you'll find it. It has been around forever, and it works great in Windows 7. I haven't tried...
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Some OSes make the temp directory a RAM disk.
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