The other day, long time colleague Brian asked over on a large distribution list: Does Windows automatically call SetThreadPreferredUILanguages(MUI_CONSOLE_FILTER, NULL, NULL) when launching a console app?  If not, why not? Now...

Not even vaguely on-topic, sorry. I'll do something more appropriate to an MSDN blog sometime soon. Probably. Well, maybe... Prognosis. The definition is simple: "a medical opinion as to the likely course and outcome of a disease". People are...

It was Friday afternoon when Santhosh (Santhosh Pillai, aka THE Santhosh, the guy who helped us with the collation story for Malayalam way back when) was asking a question. The question was: Hi: Is there an updated version of this page...

The question from Jim was: I am troubleshooting an issue with Vista SP2 where the common dialogs seem to be failing – Notepad – File/Open gives: “Not enough memory available to complete this operation. Quit one or more applications to...

I've had more and more people asking me lately about my symptoms -- just what are they, people wonder. My guts tell me that this is not something to write about, but after 39 years on this planet I've decided that if I have learned anything, it is...