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Faster restart of Windows 95 when you hold the shift key (devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing) 5 points by todsacerdoti 2 hours ago | past | discuss Clipping the focus item when looking for its on-screen location (devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing) 1 point by ibobev 5 hours ago | past | discuss Using Active Accessibility to find out where the focus item is (devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing) 1 point by ibobev 5 hours ago | past | discuss When programs assume the system will never change, episode 4: Stealing strings (devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing) 4 points by zdw 4 days ago | past | discuss Swapping two blocks of memory that reside inside a larger block, in constant mem (devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing) 2 points by ibobev 12 days ago | past | 1 comment Swapping two blocks of memory that reside inside a larger block, in constant (devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing) 2 points by ibobev 14 days ago | past Understanding and mitigating a stack overflow in our task sequencer (devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing) 1 point by mooreds 15 days ago | past Swapping two blocks of memory inside a larger block, in constant memory (devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing) 48 points by paulmooreparks 17 days ago | past | 26 comments Swapping two blocks of memory inside a larger block, in constant memory (devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing) 3 points by ingve 18 days ago | past How can I detect that the system is running low on memory? (devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing) 5 points by ibobev 19 days ago | past Can I throw a C++ exception from a structured exception? (devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing) 64 points by birdculture 21 days ago | past | 15 comments C++ says “We have try... finally at home” (devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing) 149 points by ibobev 22 days ago | past | 143 comments Why are we worried about memory access semantics? Full barriers are enough? (devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing) 3 points by signa11 22 days ago | past Janet Jackson had the power to crash laptop computers (2022) (devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing) 310 points by montalbano 23 days ago | past | 124 comments Why are we worried about memory access semantics? (devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing) 2 points by HeliumHydride 23 days ago | past Why is the last letter of my string not making it to the clipboard? (devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing) 3 points by HeliumHydride 24 days ago | past C++: "We have try...finally at home" (devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing) 4 points by HeliumHydride 26 days ago | past | 1 comment Microspeak: North Star – The Old New Thing (2015) (devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing) 26 points by rbanffy 27 days ago | past | 10 comments When irate product support customers demand to speak to Bill Gates (devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing) 79 points by magnat 27 days ago | past | 35 comments All the other cool languages have try finally. C++: We have try at home (devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing) 2 points by macote 27 days ago | past | 1 comment Concluding thoughts on our deep dive into Windows clipboard text conversion (devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing) 3 points by ibobev 29 days ago | past The Windows clipboard automatic text conversion algorithm is path-dependent (devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing) 1 point by ibobev 29 days ago | past Why does Windows take the scenic route converting from CF_TEXT to CF_OEM­TEXT? (devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing) 5 points by zdw 32 days ago | past Resolving an ambiguity in the Windows clipboard automated text conversion table (devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing) 2 points by ibobev 36 days ago | past Various locale mismatch scenarios in Windows clipboard text format synthesis (devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing) 29 points by ibobev 38 days ago | past | 7 comments How does Windows synthesize CF_Unicode­TEXT from CF_TEXT and vice versa? (devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing) 10 points by ibobev 40 days ago | past How can I read the standard output of an already-running process? (devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing) 61 points by ibobev 45 days ago | past | 33 comments Uninitialized garbage on ia64 can be deadly (2004) (devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing) 98 points by HeliumHydride 46 days ago | past | 83 comments How can I have a Win32 drop-down combo box with a read-only edit control? (devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing) 2 points by susam 49 days ago | past XAML breaks down when I have an element that is half a billion pixels tall (devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing) 5 points by ingve 56 days ago | past More

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