I have setup GitforWindows in my Windows 7 64Bit pretty well with Credential manager as "Wincred". Yet when I run some commands like git remote prune origin in GitBash, it gives following error in...

I am working on a Java server application (running under Windows as a service) and want to achieve the following scenario: A user issues a POST request to the server. The user is authenticated wi...

As with most "legacy" MSDN pages, the page for ReportEvent has too little information for me to make much sense of it. I've tried searching, but can't find a good, clean, simple example of the func...

I'm linking with a third-party library (Poco C++) and getting the following unresolved symbol errors from the linker. It appears to be unable to find "CryptAcquireContextW", "CryptReleaseContext", ...

Here's some C# source code which implements an unmanaged DLL (advapi32). public void AddPrivileges(string account, string privilege) { IntPtr pSid = GetSIDInformation(account); LSA_UNICODE_STRIN...

I use advapi32.dll's logonuser method to access data over our network. I know it change the thread's user to the information i give it, but i was wondering if there's a way to reverse it. I want t...

In order to avoid registry redirection to Wow64 keys, how to translate the following code that uses Microsoft.Win32 APIs public void SetKeyAccessControl( RegistryKey rootKey, string subKeyName, ...

I don't understand what RevertToSelf() does in a .net application. Checking MSDN definition it reads the definition as The RevertToSelf function terminates the impersonation of a client applicatio...

It's a pointer to an array of LSA_UNICODE_STRING structures. I found some code that does the inverse, i.e., create a LSA_UNICODE_STRING from a C# string. You can see that in the helper code section...