September 2007 - Posts
I posted earlier on using VirtualRegistry to provide version lies when an application is looking for the version of the operating system in the registry instead of using one of the GetVersion APIs. I could go on and on about all of the other command line
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When investigating application compatibility issues on Windows Vista, a significant percentage of the failures that I debug are not failures with the platform itself, but rather applications that would have failed as a standard user on Windows XP or earlier,
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Last time around, we were talking about version lie shims for Windows Vista with managed code. Somebody pointed out that they suspected that the same issue might be true for Visual Basic 6 applications, since version lie shims didn't appear to work there
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One of the classes of shims that people find the easiest to understand are the version lie shims. In essence, we have shims that can compensate for the fact that so many developers' keyboards were shipped with a defective > key (and the failure rate
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