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Many of the normal interlocked operations
come with variants called InterlockedXxxAcquire and InterlockedXxxRelease .
What do the terms Acquire and Release mean here? They have to do with the memory model and how aggressively
the CPU can reorder operations Read More...
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After I noted how the window manager uses the double-click time as a basis for determining
how good your reflexes are ,
people got all excited about reducing the double-click speed to make Windows feel peppier .
But be careful not to go overboard. Back Read More...
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Under the TV + Movies menu in Windows Media Center, you may have noticed a new tile: MSNBC News Beta . The MSNBC News Beta tile will begin appearing in Windows Media Center for users in the United States and Canada running Windows Vista Home Premium and Read More...
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Esther is back with a brand new demo focusing on another cool feature in Windows Vista - Snipping Tool . Snipping Tool is really handy for anyone who needs to capture and/or send an image of their screen, a web page or document - really any time where Read More...
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Each component that uses ACLs to control access
has its own idea of what GENERIC_READ , GENERIC_WRITE , and GENERIC_EXECUTE mean.
It's not like there's a master list that somebody can make that lists them all,
because I can make up a new one right here. Read More...
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The command interpreter cmd.exe has a concept
known as the error level ,
which is the exit code of the program most recently run.
You can test the error level with the IF ERRORLEVEL command: IF ERRORLEVEL 1 ECHO error level is 1 or more <sidebar> Read More...
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If the documentation says that you have to call a function,
then you have to call it.
It may be that the function doesn't do anything,
but that doesn't prevent it from doing something in the future. Today's example is the function GetEnvironmentStrings Read More...
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While this blog is committed to bringing you the latest info on Windows Vista, I wanted to take a moment to take a look at what everyone's been talking about today: PDC, WinHEC and Windows 7. The Professional Developer Conference (PDC) , taking place Read More...
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Occasionally, somebody asks how to change the size of the desktop icons,
not because they want to change the size from the default, but rather
because they somehow turned into giant marshmallow men and they want
to get the default size back. There are Read More...
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I caught this bit of news tonight from Redmond Pie’s awesome Web Slice for IE8 Beta 2 which shows their latest headlines: Microsoft Live Labs has released a really neat Color Picker Gadget for Windows Sidebar. Download: Color Picker Gadget from Microsoft Read More...
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A few weeks ago, Chris Pirillo (of Lockergnome fame) launched a brand new community website – called Geeks! - designed to give geeks of all ages a place to socialize on the web. On Geeks! – folks can sign-up to become members on the site and create photo Read More...
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Today we are excited to announce that 3 new Windows Ultimate Extras are now available for installation via Windows Update! This is the 6th wave of Ultimate Extras released by Microsoft exclusively for Windows Vista Ultimate users. Users will find the Read More...
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Now, it may very well be true that many people who use GetForegroundWindow() as the owner for a dialog box because they don't know any better,
but I'm not convinced that everyone who does so did it out of ignorance;
I'm sure there's some malice in there, Read More...
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I caught this via Nic over at Channel 10 today – a new version of Microsoft Pro Photo Tools has been released: Microsoft Pro Photo Tools 2. Download: Microsoft Pro Photo Tools 2 The first thing I want to mention in regards to what’s new with Microsoft Read More...
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Last time , we looked at a customer who wanted to know how to tell
whether a given folder was a Recycle Bin folder or not.
We answered the question as stated,
but made the mistake of not looking
at the problem the customer was trying to solve. I need Read More...
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