Programming

PAE patch updated for Windows 10

Posted on February 1, 2016 by wj32 / 490 Comments

This patch allows you to use more than 3/4GB of RAM on an x86 Windows system. Works on Windows Vista SP2, Windows 7 SP0, Windows 7 SP1, Windows 8, Windows 8.1 a...

F#/Programming

F# code: memoize a recursive function

Posted on January 13, 2016 by wj32 / 1 Comment

In this article we’ll look at how to memoize a general function f : ('a -> 'b) -> 'a -> 'b in F#, along with some interesting applications. Gener...

Hardware/Programming/Windows

PAE patch updated for Windows 8.1

Posted on October 25, 2013 by wj32 / 301 Comments

Note: An updated version for Windows 10 is available. This patch allows you to use more than 3/4GB of RAM on an x86 Windows system. Works on Windows Vista SP2, ...

Hardware/Programming/Windows

PAE patch updated for Windows 8

Posted on December 26, 2012 by wj32 / 131 Comments

Note: An updated version for Windows 8.1 is available. This patch allows you to use more than 3/4GB of RAM on an x86 Windows system. Works on Vista, 7, 8, has b...

Programming

How to backup files in C++ using the volume shadow copy service (VSS)

Posted on December 13, 2012 by wj32 / 2 Comments

If you’re writing a backup program, you need to be able to read and access files that are in use by other programs. The proper way to do this is to use th...

Programming

NiceVS makes Visual Studio 2012 usable again

Posted on December 12, 2012 by wj32 / 0 Comment

OK, Visual Studio 2012’s new user interface isn’t that bad. But you need to get some serious work done, and you don’t want to be forced to hov...

Programming

EnumWindows no longer finds Metro/Modern UI windows: a workaround

Posted on December 12, 2012 by wj32 / 8 Comments

In the final release of Windows 8, the EnumWindows function no longer lists Metro/Modern UI windows: Note For Windows 8 and later, EnumWindows enumerates only t...

Programming

ObQueryTypeInfo and NtQueryObject buffer overrun in Windows 8

Posted on November 30, 2012 by wj32 / 0 Comment

**** Update: **** Microsoft is now aware of this bug. Here’s some output from WinDbg on Windows 8 while I was debugging a driver: These two UNICODE_STRING...

Programming/Windows

Introducing WJ’s Backup

Posted on December 10, 2011 by wj32 / 3 Comments

Recently I became frustrated with Cobian Backup. It was the only free software I could find that: supported incremental backups, supported Volume Shadow Copy, a...

Hardware/Programming/Windows

PAE patch updated for Windows 7 SP1

Posted on February 23, 2011 by wj32 / 336 Comments

Note: An updated version for Windows 8 is available. This patch allows you to use more than 3/4GB of RAM on an x86 Windows system. Works on Vista and 7, has bee...