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How do I preserve the user’s notification icon preferences for my program after I update it?

Give it a GUID.

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How do I prevent my registered hotkey from firing repeatedly due to auto-repeat?

You can ask for auto-repeat to be ignored.

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Why was the Windows 95 precursor project code-named Panther abandoned?

Didn’t fit in a 4-megabyte bag.

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When I use Alt+PrtSc to take a screen shot of a maximized window, why does it capture a few pixels from an adjacent monitor?

Because it’s hanging over the edge.

October 24, 201734
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A closer look at the complexity analysis of finding the k’th smallest element in two sorted arrays

Let’s calculate it properly.

October 23, 201714
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On the gradual improvements in how the system deals with the failure to initialize a critical section

Gradually improve the situation until the problem vanishes completely.

October 20, 201718
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How do I create a shortcut whose target is specified by a relative path?

It’s already in there.

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I used WS_EX_COMPOSITED to get rid of my redrawing flicker, but it resulted in sluggish response

The system needs to know when to present the back-buffer.

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When a stopgap solution becomes an undocumented feature some people rely on

It was never meant to be long for this world.

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Nasty gotcha: Powershell aliases that match commands you might want to run

Because two-letter names would never collide, right?

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