Back in the late 80s and early 90s, you still had to dive deep into the hardware to get decent software. This meant checking hardware-related register values to get mouse coordinates via interrupt 33h, for example. 1 Or write inline assembler within Turbo Pascal procedures or PowerBASIC functions. Those were the programming languages I grew up with. Later, others came along, but I never really got used to them. I am a “BASIC guy” as I write in my README on Codeberg.2 Read more

Crashed services of a business software are inconvenient. If they occur more than once, it becomes annoying. If there is also a software supplier who is unwilling or unable to solve the problem, it gets complicated. A quick and pragmatic solution was needed shortly before the Easter holidays. If only there was not another obstacle in the way: It is all about Windows services. No progress with on-board resources Usually, modern operating systems provide an administrator with the necessary tools to control services. In Windows, it is the graphical snap-in services.msc in the Microsoft Management Console1, which has barely changed since NT4 Option Pack. You can set the start modes and up to three error handling modes: Read more