It's random, really. The post What algorithm did Windows XP use to choose your initial user picture? appeared first on The Old New Thing.

For a driver that needs high resolution mode only in Windows. The post A sample use of the <CODE>winstart.bat</CODE> file in Windows 95 appeared first on The Old New Thing.

Imagining how to report a memory allocation failure for a sparse page. The post Why don’t we allow stacks to be sparse, instead of forcing them to be contiguous? appeared first on The Old New Thing.

You're changing the value for future windows. The post What happens if you change a window class’s <CODE>GCL_<WBR>CB­WND­EXTRA</CODE>? appeared first on The Old New Thing.

Are you talking to the right guy? The post The case of the progress callback that never got called when progress happened appeared first on The Old New Thing.

Loss of identity. The post The perils of binding to value types in XAML appeared first on The Old New Thing.

People are our most valuable asset. The post Microspeak: Funded / unfunded appeared first on The Old New Thing.

All dressed up with nowhere to go. The post AWE does not require PAE, though PAE makes it much more useful appeared first on The Old New Thing.

Explicitly denying that you implement the method. The post On forcing all derived classes to implement a specific non-virtual method, part 2 appeared first on The Old New Thing.

Don't implement a stub. Just don't implement it at all. The post On forcing all derived classes to implement a specific non-virtual method, part 1 appeared first on The Old New Thing.

The smallest perturbation. The post In the product end game, every change carries significant risk, episode 2 appeared first on The Old New Thing.

It wouldn't be a Windows Entertainment Pack then, would it? The post Why didn’t the Windows Entertainment Pack just run the MS-DOS version inside an emulator? appeared first on The Old New Thing.

Filling in with your imagination. The post Comparing the two holograms on the Windows 95 box appeared first on The Old New Thing.

Applying our principles. The post Reducing C++ template bloat by factoring out the type-dependent portions of the function, practical exam appeared first on The Old New Thing.

Looking for consolidation points. The post Reducing C++ template bloat by factoring out the type-dependent portions of the function appeared first on The Old New Thing.

Just use the callable directly. The post On wrapping a callable in a lambda that just calls it with the same parameters appeared first on The Old New Thing.

A contingency plan. The post Why did the Microsoft Entertainment Pack for Windows have a special sticker announcing that it also had Tetris? appeared first on The Old New Thing.

The usual probing. The post How do functions like <CODE>alloca</CODE> allocate memory from the stack? appeared first on The Old New Thing.

You can request the target machine architecture. The post Forcing an ARM64X executable to run as a specific architecture appeared first on The Old New Thing.

Another RAII-style wrapper. The post A little helper class for managing <CODE>LPPROC_<WBR>THREAD_<WBR>ATTRIBUTE_<WBR>LIST</CODE>s appeared first on The Old New Thing.

Understanding the temporal relevance. The post The comments that go into code versus those that go into the pull request description appeared first on The Old New Thing.

It had been there long before Windows 95, but nobody remembered. The post The little-known <TT>winstart.bat</TT> batch file appeared first on The Old New Thing.

Try one of the fancier alternatives to Copy­File. The post How can I perform a <CODE>Copy­File&shy</CODE> in unbuffered mode? appeared first on The Old New Thing.

Cheating with std::unique_ptr. The post Creating a fake agile wrapper that is technically agile but is not useful outside its home apartment, part 5 appeared first on The Old New Thing.

Moving things around if possible. The post Creating a fake agile wrapper that is technically agile but is not useful outside its home apartment, part 4 appeared first on The Old New Thing.

Forcing an object into the global interface table. The post Creating a fake agile wrapper that is technically agile but is not useful outside its home apartment, part 3 appeared first on The Old New Thing.

Using a reference stored in the global interface table. The post Creating a fake agile wrapper that is technically agile but is not useful outside its home apartment, part 2 appeared first on The Old New Thing.

Looking for a COM reference that is between strong and weak. The post Creating a fake agile wrapper that is technically agile but is not useful outside its home apartment, part 1 appeared first on The Old New Thing.

What failure of the context callback means. The post Making an agile version of a Windows Runtime delegate in C++/WinRT, part 10 appeared first on The Old New Thing.

Maybe it doesn't matter. The post Making an agile version of a Windows Runtime delegate in C++/WinRT, part 9 appeared first on The Old New Thing.