When you lock memory with VirtualLock it locks the
memory into your process’s working set .
It doesn’t mean that the memory will never be paged out.
It just means that the memory won’t be paged out as long as there is a thread executing in your process Read More……(read more)

Some time ago, I looked at two ways of reimplementing
the dialog procedure
( method 1 , method 2 ).
Commenter “8″ wondered why we have a DefWindowProc function at all .
Couldn’t window procedures have followed the dialog box model,
where they simply return Read More……(read more)

One customer discovered that viewing the properties of a drive
from Explorer shows the amount of disk free space
significantly lower than the actual amount of
free disk space as resported by the disk management snap-in.
The command prompt agrees with Read More……(read more)

One customer traced a problem they were having to the way they
were calling a function similar in spirit to this one: HGLOBAL CopyClipboardData(UINT cf)
{ HGLOBAL hglob = NULL; HANDLE h = GetClipboardData(cf); if (h) { void *p = GlobalLock(h); if (p) Read More……(read more)

If you use Ubuntu (Feisty Fawn) as your Linux distribution, which everyone knows it’s a pretty fast Linux operating system, you can also do some tricks in order to get a boost. I will teach you today some quick hacks on how to improve the overall performance of your system.

WARNING: Please follow the instructions below very carefully, in the order in which they are listed below and reboot your machine after each one. If not, your operating system will NOT work anymore. (more…)

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One customer was confused by the two list view hit-test messages LVM_HITTEST and LVM_INSERTMARKHITTEST .
What is the difference between the two? The LVM_HITTEST message tries to find the item the
point is over . The LVM_INSERTMARKHITTEST message tries Read More……(read more)