In Windows XP, applications are restricted from modifying the system menu. Instead, each application gets a separate copy of the system menu. Some applications may try to get a handle to the real system menu and attempt to modify it. This compatibility fix makes the AppendMenu API return TRUE all the time, since there is no way to tell if an HMENU is the handle to the real system menu or simply a handle to the local copy of the system menu.
In Windows 2003 and earlier versions of Windows, the Remote Procedure Call (RPC) Locator service manages the RPC name service ...
In Windows 9x applications could restart the computer by calling the ExitWindowsEx API. Windows XP requires the application ...
In Windows 9x, DirectDraw manipulates the palette directly without using GDI, while on NT it uses GDI. Therefore, if an application ...
In Windows 9x, the DrawText API would accept out of range values and then convert them to acceptable values. This compatibility ...
In Windows XP, applications are restricted from modifying the system menu. Instead, each application gets a separate copy ...
In Windows XP, due to a modification in the caching between MoveFile and DeleteFile API's, when the VerInstallFileW API is ...
In Windows XP, the WS_EX_CLIENTEDGE window style causes applications to run with the taskbar still visible. This may not ...
In Windows XP, we have changed foreground semantics to stop foreground focus stealing by one app if another application is ...
InactivityTimeout defines the time limit (in seconds) for automatic disconnection of the phone line, if no data is exchanged. ...