rcMonitor is the total resolution of the display rcWork is the max area you can use,eg if you went fullscreen maximized a window The work area is the portion of the screen not obscured by the system taskbar or by application desktop toolbars. http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms724947 – SPI_GETWORKAREA
Acting as a part of the operating system allows you to do things like create login tokens. It’s unlikely that you would ever need to write a service that uses this privilege unless you’re writing an authentication provider. Since you can create access tokens, you can act as any user. Of course, this means that … Read more
CONIN$ is the console input device. Normally, stdin is an open file handle to this, but if stdin is redirected for some reason, then using CONIN$ will allow you to get access to the console despite the redirection. Reference.
Kernel drivers are programs written against Windows NT’s native API (rather than the Win32 Subsystem’s API) and which execute in kernel mode on the underlying hardware. This means that a driver needs to be able to deal with switching virtual memory contexts between processes, and needs to be written to be incredibly stable — because … Read more
Return: “To Be Filled By O.E.M.” What does this mean? “To be filled by o.e.m.” is a registration entry that originates in the BIOS and usually indicates you are using a motherboard that you purchased directly from the manufacturer, and then assembled into your own custom machine. Refer: To be filled by o.e.m. problem My processor … Read more
DWORD is not a C++ type, it’s defined in <windows.h>. The reason is that DWORD has a specific range and format Windows functions rely on, so if you require that specific range use that type. (Or as they say “When in Rome, do as the Romans do.”) For you, that happens to correspond to unsigned int, but that might not … Read more