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Why has the display control panel pointer truncation bug gone unfixed for so long?

The Old New Thing (Raymond Chen) · 2026-07-17 Cached

The article explains why a bug in the display control panel related to pointer truncation persists despite being fixed by the vendor, due to computer manufacturers' driver certification processes and users being stuck with outdated certified drivers.

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The case of the invalid function pointer when shutting down the display control panel

The Old New Thing (Raymond Chen) · 2026-07-15 Cached

This article from The Old New Thing investigates a common crash in the Windows display control panel caused by an invalid function pointer that was truncated to 32-bit and sign-extended. The author analyzes a crash dump to identify the root cause.

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