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Thu, Dec 20 2007 22:42

The case of Task Manager that does not kill

Quite long time ago, my friend Vadym Stetsiak described a bug of Task Manager , which allows to disallow (!) the killing of a process, if it's name is lsass.exe. In order to test this bug, you can rename any executable file into lsass.exe, run it...
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Sun, Jul 15 2007 1:01

Undefeatable files & folders in Windows XP SP2 - a bug in SHFileOperationW

Recently I was surprised with one interesting behavior of my Windows XP box. I was playing with long name files and noticed that major part of my shell extensions do not work with files, whose path is longer then 260 symbols. I also noticed, that Windows...
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Sat, Dec 2 2006 2:27

The case of IE7 that would not run

Yesterday I met an interesting behavior of IE7. On one of my computer which runs Windows Server 2003 SP1 I was trying to publish a post to my blog ('the power of IDA'). But I failed to do that. IE7 was crashing when I tried to write something in the editor...
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Fri, Nov 17 2006 2:01

Why does Windows do not provide more flexible API for Shell Context Menu Handlers?

Recently, I came across an interesting situation. My PC (XP SP2) was making some calculations. CPU activity was high. I was surfing through my folders and clicked on one of them using right button of the mouse. The context menu appeared after 10-20 seconds...
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