Most Viewed in November 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 18,885 visits in November 2010, from 14,413 unique visitors.

There follows a list of pages that were each viewed at least 100 times in November 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.

It’s somewhere between pleasure and relief that nearly a dozen pages return to the list now that provision of a sitemap just for Google seems to have prompted Google to start finding these pages again. Quite why 123 visits should suddenly be made to a placeholder page about an obscure compiler option, I should perhaps not want to know.

Rank Page Visits
1 (1) Licensed Memory in Windows Vista 9,727
2 (2) Geoff Chappell, Software Analyst 1,753
3 (3) Edit Boot Options in Windows Vista 1,312
4   The First Run Page in Internet Explorer 478
5 (4) Win32 433
6 (5) Kernel 379
7 (11) HAL Versions 332
8 (13) The Advanced Boot Options Menu in Windows Vista 327
9 (6) Notes 296
10 (7) Installed License Values 287
11 (14) Boot Configuration Data (BCD) 268
12 (8) Licensed Processors in Windows Vista 259
13 (9) Visual C++ 252
14   NTDLL Functions 245
15 (10) Shell 222
16 (17) ZwQueryLicenseValue 192
17 (16) Internet Explorer 189
18 (19) Windows Diagnostic Infrastructure 178
19 (21) C1XX Errors 173
20 (15) What’s New? 172
21 (23) Boot Options: pae 154
22   Feature Control in Internet Explorer 151
23   Install a Boot Logo for Windows XP 149
24   Boot Options: detecthal 147
25   Boot Options: nx 146
26 (18) Windows Kernel Exports 144
27 (20) About This Site 143
28 (29) BCD Elements 140
29 (25) Get More from the Windows Boot Menu 127
30   The Service Control Manager Eventlog Provider 127
31   The Boot Status Data Log 123
32   CL /thread 123
33 (28) Viewing the Firmware Memory Map 119
34 (22) Kernel Versions 115
35 (new) New in October 2010 114
36 (24) LINK /COMMENT 112
37 (12) The MRXCLS.SYS Malware Loader 107
38   Missing Icons in Notification Area 104
39   LINK /IGNORE 100