Determining how each Explorer window is sorted
Today’s Little Program lists all the open Explorer windows and their current sort criteria. (I will refrain from mentioning how auto-sort makes this meaningful.) Remember that Little Programs do...
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Some time ago, I discussed the fates of the various cat projects that led to Windows 95, which was in turn a follow-up to a list of cat-related code names from projects that led to Windows 95. In...
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A customer had a question about the ChangeTimerQueueTimer function, and they shared a sample program that demonstrated the issue. (Hooray for reduction.) #include <windows.h> #include...
View Article2015 year-end link clearance
The year-end link clearance is here! You may have noticed that the link clearances are getting shorter and shorter. I may have to cut back to only one link clearance per year. Not Even Close: The...
View ArticleIf you want to receive a message that is broadcast to top-level windows, you...
A customer wanted to suppress autorun from a wizard page. They started with this page on MSDN but found that their wizard page did not receive the QueryCancelAutoPlay message. default: if...
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