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I'm not sure if they provided adequate tooling for the former. They definitely didn't provide adequate documentation for the latter.

Or maybe they did - back when MSDN was actually well-organized and somewhat complete-ish (and shipped on optical disks or otherwise downloadable!), I was too young to make much use of it. Now, that wealth of knowledge is mostly gone, and external links to it don't resolve.




Naturally it is documented, otherwise how would I know about it without ever being a Microsoft employee?

These are the current locations for them,

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/sbscs/creati...

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/sbscs/manife...

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/sbscs/isolat...

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/sbscs/author... (see last bullet points regarding not to use the registry as best practice)

The problem as usual, is lack of education on the matter, and willingness to change how people work.

I stand corrected on one point though, it has been a long time and actually it was only introduced on Windows XP and Server 2003, not Windows 2000.




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