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    Copyright
    Praise for The Old New Thing
    Preface
    Acknowledgments
    About the Author
    Ch. One. Initial Forays into User Interface Design
    Ch. Two. Selected Reminiscences on Windows 95
    Ch. Three. The Secret Life of GetWindowText
    Ch. Four. The Taskbar and Notification Area
    Ch. Five. Puzzling Interface Issues
    Ch. Six. A History of the GlobalAlloc Function
    Ch. Seven. Short Topics in Windows Programming
    Ch. Eight. Window Management
    Ch. Nine. Reminiscences on Hardware
    Ch. Ten. The Inner workings of the Dialog Manager
    Ch. Eleven. General Software Issues
    Ch. Twelve. Digging into the Visual C++ Compiler
    Ch. Thirteen. Backward Compatibility
    Ch. Fourteen. Etymology and History
    Ch. Fifteen. How Window Messages are Delivered and Retrieved
    Ch. Sixteen. International Programming
    Ch. Seventeen. Security
    Ch. Eighteen. Windows 2000 and Windows XP
    Why doesn’t the new Start menu use Intellimenus in the All Programs list?
    Why is there no programmatic access to the Start menu pin list?
    Why does Windows XP Service Pack 2 sometimes forget my CD autoplay settings?
    The unsafe device removal dialog
    Two brief reminiscences on the Windows XP Comments? button
    Why does Explorer eject the CD after you finish burning it?
    Why does Windows setup lay down a new boot sector?
    Psychic debugging: Why your expensive four-processor machine is ignoring three of its processors
    Psychic debugging: Why your CPU usage is hovering at 50%
    What’s the deal with the DS_SHELLFONT flag?
    Why does DS_SHELLFONT = DS_FIXEDSYS | DS_SETFONT?
    What other effects does DS_SHELLFONT have on property sheet pages?
    Ch. Nineteen. Win32 Design Issues
    Ch. Twenty. Taxes
    Ch. Twenty-One. Silliness
    Tales of Application Compatibility
    How to Ensure that Your Program Does Not Run Under windows 95
    Index
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    Chapter Eighteen. Windows 2000 and Windows XP

    Chapter Eighteen. Windows 2000 and Windows XP

    WINDOWS 2000 AND Windows XP continued the evolution of the Windows user interface introduced in Windows 95. They faced the dual challenge of changing the user interface while still maintaining backward compatibility as well as coping with an increasingly hostile software environment. Gone are the days when you could assume that software vendors wouldn’t actively abuse their customers.


      

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