Most Viewed in June 2011

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 24,097 visits in June 2011, from 18,175 unique visitors.

There follows a list of pages that were each viewed at least 100 times in June 2011. 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.

That a throw-away article on an obscure Visual C++ command-line compiler error has languished in obscurity for five years is entirely understandable. That it suddenly gets hundreds of visits in a month is one of those mysteries of how the Internet does (and does not) service the stranger questions of programmers.

Rank Page Visits
1 (1) Licensed Memory in Windows Vista 7,687
2 (2) Geoff Chappell, Software Analyst 1,712
3 (3) Edit Boot Options in Windows Vista 1,429
4 (5) The First Run Page in Internet Explorer 617
5 (4) Win32 584
6 (8) Notes 545
7 (6) Kernel 532
8 (13) Boot Configuration Data (BCD) 423
9 (11) The Advanced Boot Options Menu in Windows Vista 403
10 (15) HAL Versions 375
11 (7) SYSENTER and SYSEXIT in Windows 362
12 (9) Visual C++ 360
13 (10) Boot Options: numproc 346
14 (14) Shell 336
15 (16) SVCHOST 332
16 (17) Internet Explorer 320
17   CL Command-Line Error D2036 311
18 (18) The Boot Status Data Log 298
19 (20) SHELL32 Functions 292
20 (21) The Service Control Manager Eventlog Provider 284
21 (19) Boot Options: detecthal 282
21   Expression Web 3 Crashes Often 282
23 (12) NTDLL Functions 255
24 (24) BCD Elements 248
25 (23) Licensed Processors in Windows Vista 234
26 (31) Installed License Values 219
27 (33) Boot Options: pae 205
28 (28) ZwQueryLicenseValue 200
28 (30) KERNEL32 Functions 200
30 (45) Windows Kernel Exports 199
31 (26) Boot Options: nx 197
32 (22) C1XX Errors 195
33 (24) Predefined C++ Types 188
34 (27) The Windows Explorer Command Line 180
35 (36) About This Site 177
36 (38) BCD Objects 176
37 (43) Kernel Versions 170
38 (34) Windows Diagnostic Infrastructure 169
39 (28) Windows Policy Identifiers 168
39 (35) Boot Windows from a Network 168
41 (37) Feature Control in Internet Explorer 166
42 (40) Memory Limit for Hibernation Support 154
43 (48) What’s New? 150
44   Bug Check 0x9A 142
45 (38) Install a Boot Logo for Windows XP 137
46 (32) LINK /IGNORE 136
47 (41) The x86 BIOS Emulator 121
47 (47) Get More from the Windows Boot Menu 121
49 (45) COMCTL32 Versions 120
49 (51) The Product Suite 120
51 (54) Internet Explorer Options 118
52 (44) Software Analysis By Reverse Engineering 110
52 (52) Boot Options: truncatememory 110
52   DWMAPI Functions 110
55   Disable Global Hot Keys 109
56 (50) IEFRAME Functions 108
57   WPP Software Tracing in SERVICES.EXE 107
57   CMPXCHG8B Support in the Windows Kernel 107
59   Consultation 100