Most Viewed in December 2009

No pages at an obscure technical site are ever really hot, but many nowadays attract more than 100 views per month. There are well over 1,500 pages at this site. Most are very detailed descriptions of functionality in Windows. They are the sort of thing that may be the key to some advanced programmer being able to complete his work but which is beyond arcane to everyone else. I am astonished that any of these pages get looked at even once a day.

This site had 21,346 visits in December 2009, from 15,498 unique visitors.

There follows a list of pages that were each viewed at least 100 times in December 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 (1) Licensed Memory in Windows Vista 9,157
2 (2) Geoff Chappell, Software Analyst 1,773
3 (3) Edit Boot Options in Windows Vista 1,183
4 (4) Win32 Programming 602
5 (5) Windows Kernel-Mode Programming 543
6 (6) The First Run Page in Internet Explorer 486
7 (7) Licensed Processors in Windows Vista 446
8 (13) The Service Control Manager Eventlog Provider 437
9 (8) Notes 388
10 (12) A Study of the Windows Shell 381
11 (15) Internet Explorer 355
12 (9) Microsoft Visual C++ 341
13 (10) The Advanced Boot Options Menu in Windows Vista 340
13 (11) Installed License Values 340
15 (18) SYSENTER and SYSEXIT in Windows 330
16 (19) Boot Options: numproc 302
17 (16) ZwQueryLicenseValue 290
18 (21) SHELL32 Functions 258
19 (49) The x86 BIOS Emulator 257
20 (21) Boot Options: pae 238
21 (24) What’s New? 220
22 (20) Boot Options: detecthal 219
23 (23) Boot Configuration Data (BCD) 218
24 (27) About This Site 215
25 (35) BCD Elements 209
26 (28) Get More from the Windows Boot Menu 203
27 (17) Missing Icons in Notification Area 197
27 (34) Feature Control in Internet Explorer 197
29 (25) LINK /IGNORE 193
30 (31) SVCHOST 190
31   Updated CRTDRVR Library 189
32 (29) HAL Versions 181
33 (33) Windows Diagnostic Infrastructure 177
33 (36) Viewing the Firmware Memory Map 177
35 (37) The Boot Status Data Log 176
36 (32) Boot Options: nx 173
37 (39) NTDLL Functions 172
38 (new) New or Updated in December 2009 171
39 (26) Boot Windows from a Network 163
40 (14) C1XX Errors 161
41 (30) Install a Boot Logo for Windows XP 160
42 (49) BCD Objects 159
43 (41) MSHTML Classes: CDocument 153
44 (47) Internet Explorer Options 151
45 (40) CMPXCHG8B Support in the Windows Kernel 141
46 (53) An MSHTML Import Library 135
47 (46) Kernel Versions 133
48 (51) Bug Check 0x9A 129
49   Memory Limit for Hibernation Support (new) 125
50 (45) The Product Suite 123
51 (43) CPU Identification by the Windows Kernel 121
52   Boot Options: truncatememory 120
52   Missing Shell Functions 120
54 (54) Windows Kernel Exports 117
55 (38) Consultation 112
56   Desktop Icon for Default Web Browser 110
57   Boot Options: kernel 108
58   What’s Hot? 105
59 (55) Matters Arising From DOS Internals 103
60   Support This Site 101
60   SHDOCVW 101
62   Feedback 100
62   SHELL32 100