No more sense to keep all these MSDN disks

I have several active Microsoft MSDN licenses / subscriptions, and the oldest one comes with the biggest MSDN disc collection (more than 1500 CDs and DVDs). The 2015 is the year when the Cloud has won. Disks are going to recycling plant, and I am left with a small virtual .iso collection, and big collection …

RegCopyTree fails with Access denied error (5) on Windows 7

MSDN documentation for RegCopyTree states that ‘The calling process must have KEY_CREATE_SUB_KEY access to the destination key’, however call fails on some keys with Access denied error (5) on Windows 7 Ultimate 64-bit. Changing desired access rights to KEY_ALL_ACCESS solves the problem. Currently I do not know why, but it works in my case.

2011 links no. 3

Interview With Sacha Barber in The Code Project. The ABA problem occurs during synchronization, when a location is read twice, has the same value for both reads, and “value is the same” is used to indicate “nothing has changed”. However, another thread can execute between the two reads and change the value, do other work, …