Date: | August 27, 2003 / year-entry #34 |
Tags: | code;tipssupport |
Orig Link: | https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20030827-00/?p=42783 |
Comments: | 3 |
Summary: | Windows XP ships with a number of icon overlays. A small arrow. Everybody knows this one: It's the shortcut overlay. A hand, palm up. This is the "sharing" overlay. A folder with this overlay is the root of a file share. A downward-pointing blue arrow. This is the "to be written to CD" overlay. A... |
Windows XP ships with a number of icon overlays.
The black clock is particularly baffling because you sometimes see it even if your system is not equipped with Hierarchical Storage Management. When this happens, it's because some program (typically a setup program) didn't check error codes properly. CopyFileAttributes(LPCTSTR pszSrc, LPTSTR pszDst) { SetFileAttributes(pszDst, GetFileAttributes(pszSrc)); }
The above code fragment fails to check for an error code from |
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If this happens… how do you fix it?
Things you ought to do though you may not personally benefit from it.
I read Raymond Chen’s post entitled How do you convince developers to pay their "taxes"? with interest….