Why do atoms start at 0xC000- April 29, 2008 There are two types of atoms, so-called integer atoms, which are just small integers, and, um, atoms that don't have a special adjective; these plain vanilla atoms come from functions like AddAtom. (For the purpose of this discussion, I'll call them string atoms.) The atom zero is invalid (INVALID_ATOM); atoms 1 through MAXINTATOM-1† are integer atoms, and atoms from MAXINTATOM through 0xFFFF are string atoms. Why is the value of MAXINTATOM 0xC000 The reason has its roots in 16-bit...http://blogs.msdn.com/oldnewthing/archive/2008/04/29/8436335.aspx What happened to winipcfg and netmon- April 7, 2008 Commenter Michael Moulton asks: Back in the Win95 & 98 days, we had winipcfg to manage DHCP leases on the client. Additionally, we had an app (I think it was netmon) to let you view people currently accessing your shares. Now, we have ipconfig on the command line and nothing like netmon. I'd be interested in hearing why those tools weren't retained. Let's start with winipcfg. On the Windows NT side, the tool for managing IP addresses has always been ipconfig, and it hasn't..http://blogs.msdn.com/oldnewthing/archive/2008/04/07/8364033.aspx |