Win32 System Services: The Heart of Windows® 98 and Windows® 2000

Chapter 21. Miscellaneous

This chapter describes six more system services that are important to any application developer working in Windows:

1. The registry

2. The event log

3. Memory management

4. Time

5. The error handler

6. Structured exception handling

All of these topics are small, straightforward, and easy to understand.

Compatibility Note: All of the code in this chapter, with the exception of Section 21.2, works identically in Windows 2000 and Windows 98. Section 21.2 will not work in Windows 98.