How can NT character-mode application determine if its console has been inherited from parent process, as opposed to newly allocated console within CreateProcess?

I was trying to do environment setup for Angular2 and for that I am getting below mentioned error while using command : npm install I am having Node versions : Node version is v6.7.0, npm versio...

I'm doing some poking around in Windows internals for my general edification, and I'm trying to understand the mechanism behind Image File Execution Options. Specifically, I've set a Debugger entry...

I'm having to support multiple database types for my tenant-enabled web application. Among others, I have successfully supported Microsoft's SQL Server, by using the net.sourceforge.jtds.jdbc.Drive...

I tried to launch a long PowerShell script with the name "long name here.ps1" from command prompt. But I am also trying to ensure that it runs as an administrator command in PowerShell. I...

In a C++ Windows (XP and NT, if it makes a difference) application I'm working on, I need to get the network name associated with the computer the code is executing on, so that I can convert local ...

I am just debugging a Windows application which is crashing. After starting the app, attaching to it with WinDbg, and then letting it crash, the following appeared in the WinDbg command window: (1...

I'm currently trying to debug a system deadlock and I'm having a hard time understanding this. Child-SP RetAddr : Args to Child : Call Site fffff880`035cb760 fffff800`02ecef72 : 00000000`00000002...

I'm told, that Windows NT was first designed to implement the microkernel architecture, but moved away to hybrid kernel. What caused the change? I'm having trouble trying to find any info a...

I have a system which has some devices with which it communicates through virtual COM ports. With time, the COM port numbers change. I made some code that will search for the new COM port numbers f...

I'd like to try writing my own minimal NT subsystem on Windows 7 for purely educational purposes -- something like a bare-bones equivalent of the posix.exe in Microsoft's Subsystem for Unix-b...

An MFC application that I'm trying to migrate uses afxext.h, which causes _AFXDLL to get set, which causes this error if I set /MT: Please use the /MD switch for _AFXDLL builds My research to dat...