Most Viewed in May 2009

No pages at an obscure technical site are ever really hot, but increasingly many attract more than 100 views per month. I am astonished that any pages at this site get looked at even once a day.

This site had 29,425 visits in May 2009, from 24,236 unique visitors.

There follows a list of pages that were each viewed at least 100 times in May 2009. 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	(2)	Licensed Memory in Windows Vista	21,755
2	(1)	Geoff Chappell, Software Analyst	2,697
3	(28)	Licensed Processors in Windows Vista	1,031
4	(9)	Notes	952
5		Win32 Programming	932
6		Windows Kernel-Mode Programming	828
7	(3)	Edit Boot Options in Windows Vista	710
8	(4)	A Study of the Windows Shell	650
9	(29)	Installed License Values	618
10	(7)	Microsoft Visual C++	577
11	(16)	Internet Explorer	553
12		ZwQueryLicenseValue	504
13	(new)	New in May 2009	391
14	(6)	The Service Control Manager Eventlog Provider	387
15	(25)	About This Site	368
16	(10)	The First Run Page in Internet Explorer	357
17	(5)	Boot Options: numproc	343
18	(14)	SYSENTER and SYSEXIT in Windows	301
19		New in April 2009	297
20	(18)	The Advanced Boot Options Menu in Windows Vista	282
21		Boot Options: pae	272
22	(22)	CPU Identification by the Windows Kernel	251
23	(15)	What’s New?	247
24		Boot Configuration Data (BCD)	236
25	(12)	Browsing This Website	232
26	(30)	Get More from the Windows Boot Menu	202
27	(19)	Feature Control in Internet Explorer	201
28	(27)	Install a Boot Logo for Windows XP	200
29		Consultation	199
30	(13)	SVCHOST	190
31		Notes on Internet Explorer	186
31	(21)	NTDLL 6.0 Named Exports	186
33	(17)	SHELL32 Functions	184
34		Notes on the Windows Shell	180
34		Bug Check 0x3E	180
36		Windows Diagnostic Infrastructure	177
37	(8)	NTDLL Functions	171
38		Viewing the Firmware Memory Map	170
39		Fee Schedule	163
40		Licensing Windows Vista	157
41		Feedback	149
42		Matters Arising From DOS Internals	147
43		Kernel Versions	146
43	(20)	LINK /IGNORE	146
45		Boot Options: nx	145
46	(33)	Missing Settlement Functions	142
47		C1XX Errors	140
47	(22)	MSHTML Classes: CDocument	140
47	(11)	RtlSetProcessIsCritical	140
50		Missing Icons in Notification Area	139
51		Diagnostic Provider for SERVICES.EXE	137
52		NTDLL	135
53		Bug Check 0x79	133
54	(32)	Software Analysis	131
55		Boot Windows from a Network	125
56		CMPXCHG8B Support in the Windows Kernel	124
57		BCD Elements	115
57		WPP Software Tracing in SERVICES.EXE	115
59		BCD Objects	111
60	(30)	Internet Explorer Options	110
61		SHDOCVW Functions	108
61	(24)	SVCHOST Process Initialisation	108
63	(26)	New or Revised in March 2009	104
63		Styles of Display Names for Drives	104
65		Boot Options: detecthal	103
66		The Boot Status Data Log	102
67		The Shell Core Provider	101