There is an interesting article about checking the version of the operating system. If you are too lazy to read it then just remember this: Do not check it at all! Well, I changed my mind. You should read it! So go to Yochay Kiriaty’s Article, read it and then get back her for the [...]

Some time ago, I was in the situation to set up a new computer with a Windows XP 64 CD. Well it doesn’t matter that it was 64bit.  However, I always create a separate partitions for Windows XP. And because user profiles tend to get big, I moved a new user to a second partition. [...]

Frequently Given Answers written by Jonathan de Boyne Pollard is a plain html website that you may be interested in. Well, I was because it has some good points about how Windows works – and some more unrelated Windows stuff:

/EDIT: I forgot to mention that he headers are included in the Jedi Apilib as JwaWdm.pas. I’m working on a new build of TSAdminEx for which I need to query the total amount of physical memory. Locally we can use the GlobalMemoryStatusEx API but there’s no API to do this remotely. It would be possible [...]

There are a lot of setups out there which just copy some files and then run the application. I often wonder why they really need Administrator rights at all. So IMO, if you want to create a setup for your product you should really consider the following question: Does your setup really need Administrator rights?

If you wonder why articles aren’t released that frequently any more, you should know that currently I am in the middle of some other (not JEDI related) projects (at my university). However I’m also going to prepare some huge improvements in JWSCL. New features are added and more testing is done too – for your [...]

Some people know Remko Weijnen’s blog about stuff regarding Windows Terminal Server. If you don’t you should read his articles. You’ll get a deep insight how Windows works. Recently another author published an article about TS internals on Remko’s blog. Danila Galimov exposes how communication is done between Terminal Service and a Terminal Session (like [...]

I’ve just had an awful bug search on a machine of a fellow programmer. He wanted to use the PNGComponents in Delphi2007 and just installed it as usual. (He’s running Vista SP1 by the way.) After a successul installation he tried to put a TPngImageList on the form. In the same moment the whole Delphi [...]

Have you every wondered why the Windows folder is growing and growing so big? I always create a new partition for a brand new Windows. However for Windows Vista I wondered what would be a good size. Windows XP has lived on a 21GB partition for many years without even coming close to the end [...]

People may think that BOOL and Boolean are the same types in Delphi since they can just contain true and false. Right? Yes and No. They seem to be the same, however there is a little difference how these types are handled in an assignment. To see the difference we have to open up the [...]