Maarten's blog

Follow-up from the research on how to disable a per-application shim . When I saw the output from the shim infrastructure in DebugView, I mistakenly assumed that the application was shimmed. It apparently only means that the application is found in the...

When I go to connect and download the Windows 7 Software Logo Requirements v1.7.docx, it downloads a zip file. Unzipping the file gives me a somewhat familiar view. I've seen this before. This looks like a OPC document . Since OPC is XML wrapped...

For Windows Vista Logo, we used to have vouchers to entice early adaption. An ISV recently asked me for vouchers for Windows 7. Since Windows 7 is a "self-test" there is no need for a voucher. It is virtually free. The only cost might be that an ISV needs...

I recently upgraded to Windows 7 RTM. When I hit the Windows key, no search results were being returned. Only standard items from control panel etc. The Windows search service appeared not to be running. When I tried to start the service from services...

You can link binaries with /integritycheck. This will tell the loader to check the signature of the binary at load time. Supposedly signing with page hash (/ph) has a substantial impact on load time. Omitting /ph will require the entire binary to be loaded...

The other day I was working on an application that we apparently shimmed. I wanted to know if disabling the shim actually changed the behavior. You can download ACT and go hunt for the executable. (For some interesting reason that fully escapes me...

I am working on profiling impacts of software on the performance of the OS. I'm testing on Windows 7 RC 7100 x86. It is predominantly to get a feel for the complexity. I want to know how much effort it would entail to wrap this up into an offering for...