Most Viewed in May 2010

No pages at an obscure technical site are ever really hot, but many nowadays attract more than 100 views per month. There are nearing 2,000 pages at this site. Most are very detailed descriptions of functionality in Windows. Though they are the sort of thing that may be the key to some advanced programmer being able to complete his work, they are beyond arcane to everyone else. I am astonished that any of these pages get looked at even once a day.

This site had 20,235 visits in May 2010, from 15,379 unique visitors.

There follows a list of pages that were each viewed at least 100 times in May 2010. The faded titles are just index pages which I presume are viewed only or mainly on the way to others, especially while moving from one Table of Contents to another. Two of these index pages are just the skimpiest of placeholders, pending my writing an introduction. The rank in brackets is from the previous month.

Rank Page Views
1 (1) Licensed Memory in Windows Vista 6,942
2 (2) Geoff Chappell, Software Analyst 1,716
3 (3) Edit Boot Options in Windows Vista 1,216
4 (4) The First Run Page in Internet Explorer 523
5 (5) Win32 Programming 497
6 (6) Windows Kernel-Mode Programming 457
7 (14) Microsoft Visual C++ 344
8 (13) Boot Options: numproc 338
9 (8) The Advanced Boot Options Menu in Windows Vista 337
10 (9) Notes 326
11 (10) The Service Control Manager Eventlog Provider 311
12 (17) A Study of the Windows Shell 308
12 (21) Internet Explorer 308
14 (7) C1XX Errors 292
15 (15) Licensed Processors in Windows Vista 288
16 (16) BCD Elements 282
17 (18) The Boot Status Data Log 276
18 (11) SYSENTER and SYSEXIT in Windows 263
19 (12) Operation Aurora 258
20 (30) NTDLL Functions 257
21 (22) Installed License Values 249
22 (20) Boot Configuration Data (BCD) 248
23 (19) Boot Options: detecthal 239
24 (25) SVCHOST 217
25 (24) SHELL32 Functions 213
26 (26) What’s New? 204
27 (42) Memory Limit for Hibernation Support 203
28 (22) ZwQueryLicenseValue 201
29 (27) Boot Windows from a Network 199
30 (29) Boot Options: nx 182
31 (31) LINK /IGNORE 178
32 (34) HAL Versions 174
33 (27) Boot Options: pae 173
34 (33) Feature Control in Internet Explorer 171
35 (32) BCD Objects 170
36 (36) Windows Kernel Exports 167
37 (44) Windows Diagnostic Infrastructure 166
38 (42) Missing Icons in Notification Area 160
39 (41) Bug Check 0x9A 155
39 (51) Install a Boot Logo for Windows XP 155
41 (52) Windows Policy Identifiers 150
42 (37) About This Site 146
43   The Microsoft Visual C++ Linker 144
44 (49) The Product Suite 133
45   InitCommonControlsEx 128
46 (40) Kernel Versions 126
47 (44) Get More from the Windows Boot Menu 123
47 (44) The x86 BIOS Emulator 123
49 (47) Viewing the Firmware Memory Map 119
50 (38) CPU Identification by the Windows Kernel 117
50 (48) Boot Options: truncatememory 117
52 (49) Boot Options: kernel 114
53 (35) CMPXCHG8B Support in the Windows Kernel 111
54   COMCTL32 Versions 110