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I have been teaching myself  Microsoft Foundation Classes from the book “Programming Windows With MFC” for the past month or so. That is still the book to have but it is a bit old, it’s from 1999 and it’s aimed at Visual C++ 6.0. It took me until the beginning of the week to get any of the sample code to work with Visual Studio 2022 but now I have finished my first project based on code from the book, at least I think I have.

it’s a very simple image editor with only one function, it turns colour images into grey scale. I have posted a link below with the source code and a stand alone .EXE (it needs no installing) and a sample bitmap of my friend and her daughter.

https://1drv.ms/u/s!ApY7Ke0brhrmhIE-kM6Q-4E_OaVWmg?e=PY6fxE

Comments from anyone who can load VS solutions would be welcome, but anyone can try the EXE, I think, comments about that would be welcome too 🙂

 

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Happy New Year !

Just hoping this one’s no worse than the last one 😁

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What’s the problen 😁

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Thanks for the tip, but I still run a Core i7 990X on Windiws 10 and I haven’t noticed a problen, as of yet 😁

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Sorry to hear that John.

I just managed to sign up with a great new NHS dentist, but I suspect that Sudbury Hill in Harrow would be a bit far for you to travel.

He just fitted me with a crown and did three large fillings and he only charged me for an NHS check up, he said he could put it down as some sort of emergency treatment.

I need another crown and the dentist said if I come back in six months he can do the same again 😃

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Hi Ed.

I actually brought the Windows Sysinternals Reference book from Microsoft press.

The book goes into great detail about every Sysinternals utility that was avaliable  at the time it was published.

The book also starts out with an explination of how Windows Virtual Memory and processes work, if you don’t want to buy Windows Internals Vol’s 1&2, it’s worth it just for that.

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It’s digital streaming however you look at it, it really shouldn’t introduce ANY noise.

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I take it you did create a new partition in the unallocated space ?

If not, then right click the unalocated space and choose “new simple volume”.

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The biggest lier in history won three elections in a row so it must be good for something.

Tony blah just couldn’t help himself though, even when the truth was good enough he had to slip in a litte lie. I think he just got a kick out of misleading the public and getting away with it.

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I notice my post got a tag added at the bottom, which reminds me.

XAML, NOT the up and comming language of the future !

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I notice that, inspite of using the unreal engine, there are still masses of lines of C++ code.

C++, the up and comming language of the future 😆
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Oh no I don’t, there aren’t nearly enough loonys on here, it wouldn’t be any fun 😁

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I still look in a couple of time’s a week. But I do most of my ranting on Quora at the moment, there are just so many deluded remoaners/rejoiners to take a pop at 😁

Honestly, some of the “facts” they come out with are hysterical.

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My surface pro 7 updated itself to Windows 11 a few months ago, but my hobby PC still runs Windows 10 with Windows 11 running in a Hyper-V Gen 2 virtual machine.

It’s going to stay like that until Microsoft drops support for Windows 10, at that point a new motherboard bundle is on the cards 😁

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I use the Avast vpn, I cancelled my subscription 6 months ago, but they don’t seem to have noticed 🤫

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A classic BIOS won’t have an NVMe driver, no.

If you get one of those Samsung 980 Pro drives with an option rom though it WILL have one. Windows 8.0 and up also has its own NVMe driver, so once the system is booted it doesn’t matter what drivers the BIOS has.

IF the Windows installer can see the NVMe drive then you could get around the BIOS driver problem by just reinstalling Windows on the NVMe drive. The installer will leave the system partition on your existing SSD and create a duel boot setup. You can then boot into your new Windows installation on the NVMe drive and delete the original Windows partition on the SSD.

You now boot from the SSD but run Windows from the NVMe 😃

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The problem is that an old style BIOS will only look for bootable devices that are attached to its built in SATA or USB ports, it will also scan for option ROM’s on cards plugged into PCI/PCIe slots and run them.

If your adapter or M2 drive have a boot ROM then you’re good to go, if not, then they just won’t show up as a boot option.

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Apparently some Samsung M2 drives include an old style option ROM that makes them bootable on a traditional BIOS system, much like SCSI adapters did.

Failing that, it should be possible to have your system partition on a bootable SATA drive but your Windows partition on the M2 drive.

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Well have given the Ukrainians anti tank missiles, lets see what they do with them.

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I haven’t played with docker containers on Windows (maybe I will and get back to you 😁) but it looks like the same restrictions would apply.

You can have your Docker container running on the ROOT OS but not on a hosted VM.

Corporate users would have a server version of Windows though, and the restrictions don’t apply there.

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