My main goal is to disable the clock icon without editing regex and restarting Explorer (similarly to how the Windows Settings App achieves this).

my main goal is to disable the Clock icon without editing regex and restarting explorer (similarly to how the Windows Settings App achieves this). if anyone familiar with Windows API or any other api that allows this could you possibly explain the way to approach this problem?

I have a laptop that has a dedicated NVIDIA GPU. However, this laptop has a problem where the NVIDIA GPU sometimes exits its suspended state and starts using battery, which causes a heavy battery drain.
If the GPU is awake, you can force it to get on the “suspend” state by disabling and enabling the GPU again on Device manager. Once you do this, it gets fixed.

I maintain a Windows service that runs in session 0. It performs maintenance tasks at certain times in a similar way to the Windows task scheduler. If the system is asleep, it uses SetWaitableTimer() to wake-up. This has worked well for traditional sleep and hibernate for many years.

I am writing a program that will open a job object present in BaseNamedObjects namespace using OpenJobObjectA. Below is snippet of code:

The Win32 API function CreateFile() opens a “file” using a path, but this path can also open a volume (e.g. \.D:), or a physical drive (e.g. \.PHYSICALDRIVE2), or console handles, “changer drivers”, or even tape. This remembers UNIX, but different to UNIX, if I use GetFileSize() on a volume/drive, it fails with “The parameter is incorrect”, being necessary to use DeviceIoControl().

Is there a Windows API returning the message text for NTSTATUS codes?

My Windows 11 dialogue boxes suddenly changed and now the messages display odd words like “You’ll”. How do I reset to the default?

GetProcessGroupAffinity requires the memory for [out] PUSHORT GroupArray to be overaligned. Is this (bug?) documented anywhere? Is this even a bug? The only mention I could find is here https://fossies.org/linux/fio/os/windows/cpu-affinity.c at line 236.