A special kind of HMODULE. The post What does it mean when the bottom bit of my <CODE>HMODULE</CODE> is set? appeared first on The Old New Thing.

It doesn't care about impersonation, says so on the tin. The post Why doesn’t <CODE>Get­Last­Input­Info()</CODE> return info for the user I’m impersonating? appeared first on The Old New Thing.

Choosing the register to use to pass the desired stack allocation size. The post Windows stack limit checking retrospective, follow-up appeared first on The Old New Thing.

It was carefully designed to be trivial. The post Retrofitting the <CODE>WM_<WBR>COPY­DATA</CODE> message onto Windows 3.1 appeared first on The Old New Thing.

Offensive content in the eyes of a software engineer. The post The time the x86 emulator team found code so bad that they fixed it during emulation appeared first on The Old New Thing.

The thread pool is designed for throughput, not latency. The post How can I schedule work on a thread pool with low latency? appeared first on The Old New Thing.

I mean, technically I didn't do it. The post Understanding the rationale behind a rule when trying to circumvent it appeared first on The Old New Thing.

There is no such feature, but you can just exclude it virtually. The post What’s the opposite of <CODE>Clip­Cursor</CODE> that lets me <I>exclude</I> the cursor from a region? appeared first on The Old New Thing.

Even the boss got into the festivities. The post The Microsoft Company Party where everybody played name tag swap appeared first on The Old New Thing.

Generalizing the shuffle to arbitrary numbers of blocks. The post Rotation revisited: Shuffling more than three blocks, and other small notes appeared first on The Old New Thing.

Not doing the reading. The post The back cover of <I>C++: The Programming Language</I> also raises questions not answered by the front cover appeared first on The Old New Thing.

Math is hard. Let's go counting! The post Rotation revisited: Avoiding having to calculate the gcd when doing cycle decomposition appeared first on The Old New Thing.

Rotating in the minimum number of steps by performing cycle decomposition. The post Rotation revisited: Cycle decomposition in clang’s libcxx appeared first on The Old New Thing.

We've seen this before. The post Rotation revisited: A shocking discovery about gcc’s unidirectional rotation algorithm appeared first on The Old New Thing.

Moving in a straight line, in a different way. The post Rotation revisited: Another unidirectional algorithm appeared first on The Old New Thing.

Modern this and that. The post The placeholder name for the Windows 8 experience was “modern” appeared first on The Old New Thing.

A variation where we try only once. The post Sharing the result of a single Windows Runtime IAsyncOperation among multiple coroutines, part 3 appeared first on The Old New Thing.

Just let each person take turns trying. The post Sharing the result of a single Windows Runtime IAsyncOperation among multiple coroutines, part 2 appeared first on The Old New Thing.

Caching the result and knowing when the cache is valid. The post Sharing the result of a single Windows Runtime IAsyncOperation among multiple coroutines, part 1 appeared first on The Old New Thing.

A difference in philosophy. The post If C# and JavaScript lets me await a Windows Runtime asynchronous operation more than once, why not C++/WinRT? appeared first on The Old New Thing.

Putting them in a place that can access only if you call Start. The post A hypothetical redesign of <CODE>System.<WBR>Diagnostics.<WBR>Process</CODE> to avoid confusion over properties that are valid only when you are the one who called <CODE>Start</CODE> appeared first on The Old New Thing.

You need to pump messages when idle, but maybe you are never idle. The post Why do you say that a COM STA thread must pump messages if I see sample code creating STA threads and not pumping messages? appeared first on The Old New Thing.

Trick question: You can't. But maybe you can fake it. The post How do I use Win32 structures from the Windows Runtime? appeared first on The Old New Thing.

You need to arrange to get one from the other. The post The classic TreeView control lets me sort by name or by lParam, but why not both? appeared first on The Old New Thing.

The storage control blocks were destroyed. The post What is the history of the <CODE>ERROR_<WBR>ARENA_<WBR>TRASHED</CODE> error code? appeared first on The Old New Thing.

Reported incorrectly since the day it was written. The post Just shows that nobody cares about debugging the parity flag any more appeared first on The Old New Thing.

Maybe because it already exists? The post The case of the <CODE>Create­File­Mapping</CODE> that always reported <CODE>ERROR_<WBR>ALREADY_<WBR>EXISTS</CODE> appeared first on The Old New Thing.

Using data structures you already knew. The post A constant-space linear-time algorithm for deleting all but the 10 most recent files in a directory appeared first on The Old New Thing.

Keeping things moving. The post The case of the hang when the user changed keyboard layouts appeared first on The Old New Thing.

Compatibility, of course. The post Why do Windows client editions on 32-bit x86 systems artificially limit RAM to 4 GB? appeared first on The Old New Thing.