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System Tray Notification area icons
If you’re a developer writing for Windows 7, you’ll probably have noticed that icons in the System Tray aren’t shown by default. Raymond Chen blogged about this recently, here and here. Notification...
View ArticleDaylight savings time change for Chile
My team is responsible for issuing updates whenever a country decides to change their daylight savings start/end dates, or even time zone. Most recently, we’ve released an update for Chile. More...
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Remote Assistance and UAC prompts
Recently, I received some e-mail sent to one of our internal DLs describing an issue a customer is facing when using Remote Assistance: My customers engineer requests to connect to a user’s machine via...
View ArticleWhy do .zip files from Mac OS show up as green/encrypted?
It’s kind of funny really. The ZIP specification mandates that a program/OS creating a zip archive include a tag informing about itself to the program trying to decompress the archive. This information...
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Why does explorer tell me the file was opened by the wrong program?
(or why Windows Audio is holding an Event Log file open) Today’s blog post will be about the “File in use” dialog. You may have encountered this dialog when trying to delete a file that you happened to...
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Hilarious network configuration
I call this DNS art Try running this from a cmd prompt: tracert -h 99 216.81.59.173 You’ll get something like this: <initial routing...> 13 * * * Request timed out. 14 150 ms 153 ms 144 ms...
View ArticleAdventures in reinterpret_cast
It’s like dialing the wrong number and then going on as if you’re talking to the person you intended to anyway Today I was helping one of my teammates debug an issue he had been looking at for a while....
View ArticleYour app will crash if you try to invoke the setdesktopwallpaper verb
I was building a little app that would take a jpeg file and set it as the user’s wallpaper. I could use the SystemParametersInfo API but I wanted something a bit more flexible (e.g. SPI only supports...
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Windows 10 and File Explorer
It’s been a while since I posted anything so I figured I’d give you all, my good-looking audience, an update. My team and I have been pretty busy with File Explorer in Windows 10, and we are very...
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Switch between registry hives in Windows 10
When working on a product like Windows, it’s hard please everybody – a feature that will be well received by a certain consumer segment might be completely lost on or ignored by enterprises, etc. and...
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