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re: What do HeapLock and HeapUnlock do, and when do I need to call them?
I actually used HEAP_NO_SERIALIZATION once, on a private heap that was being used as an arena allocator so I didn't have to free memory in error condition (the normal path freed its memory anyway as it...
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re: A question about endian-ness turns out to be the wrong question
I know that they should have installed the Cumulative update, but there's some MIS that I know refrain from install patches to their system, fearing it'll break their programs. Given that they haven't...
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re: A question about endian-ness turns out to be the wrong question
@jas88: WindowsRT can be big endian.
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re: What do HeapLock and HeapUnlock do, and when do I need to call them?
I agree mostly with all the comments about Raymond's comment "I encountered one developer who thought that...". In summary, holding beliefs about the behaviour of a call without reading the...
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re: What is so special about the instance handle 0x10000000?
This comment needs to be put in a more accurate context - "Everybody who does Win32 programming should recognize that 0x10000000 is the default DLL base address assigned by the linker". Are you...
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re: Why can't you rename deleted items in the Recycle Bin?
This might sound crazy, but I actually had a need to rename a deleted folder in recycle bin - I deleted a souce code folder on the desktop, and copied in an updated source code folder from the company...
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re: Why can't you rename deleted items in the Recycle Bin?
Actually in Britain, at least, you can get your birth certificate name changed. If you are transgender you can as an adult get your name and gender changed on your birth certificate. Perhaps the better...
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re: Why can't you rename deleted items in the Recycle Bin?
@Frank:I have that same situation occur a few times. However, you can simply drag & drop files/folders out of the Recycle Bin to the location of your choice. That trick has saved me a lot of time.
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re: Why can't you rename deleted items in the Recycle Bin?
@Frank: And if you must restore to exact previous location, you can rename the new code.
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re: Why can't you rename deleted items in the Recycle Bin?
Frank, you *can* restore a folder to a different parent folder, avoiding the name collision. I just tried it on Windows 7. There is a "Move here" menu item in the context menu.
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re: Why can't you rename deleted items in the Recycle Bin?
Thanks y'all. Never occured to me I could drag a deleted item from the recycle bin to some other locations :D
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re: Why can't you rename deleted items in the Recycle Bin?
I've wanted to rename stuff in the recycle bin for exactly the same reason as Frank. As for why people think it's a reasonable thing to ask for... I'm guessing a lot of people assume the Recycle Bin is...
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re: 2012 year-end link clearance
'The bottom border of the cake was slightly restyled in transit: "border-bottom: none;"''More like border-bottom:ruined;'CSS jokes. Nerdy, but priceless
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re: 2012 year-end link clearance
Reference: The Service Pack ShuffleThere's one other case for needing to detect whether or not a particular update has been installed.I had a case where on Windows XP SP2, installing a specific...
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re: Why can't you rename deleted items in the Recycle Bin?
Haven't you heard of people who keep their important documents in the Recycle Bin? (and people who keep important messages in the Deleted folder of their email program)? Not kidding. They get very...
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re: Why can't you rename deleted items in the Recycle Bin?
[I see no explanation for how this could possibly escape the 100-point hole every feature starts out in.]Every Halloween, undead feature requests dig themselves from the 100-point hole, and limp around...
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re: Why can't you rename deleted items in the Recycle Bin?
"The purpose of the Recycle Bin is not to provide another place where you can organize your data."Love it. Like alegr1, the amount of computers (personal and corporate (when the recycle bin is not...
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re: Why can't you rename deleted items in the Recycle Bin?
I agree why would anyone want to do this? Just cut and paste items and then do what you wanna do with them.
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re: If NTFS is a robust journaling file system, why do you have to be careful...
in other words, the issue is not the FS but the write cache used to give the appearance of better responsiveness than there really is.
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re: 2012 year-end link clearance
@Joshua: So if for whatever reason the user tried to reinstall SP2 they would immediately blue screen?
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