Most Viewed in August 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 26,105 visits in August 2011, from 18,830 unique visitors.

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

Rank Page Visits
1 (1) Licensed Memory in Windows Vista 8,874
2 (2) Geoff Chappell, Software Analyst 1,984
3 (3) Edit Boot Options in Windows Vista 1,488
4 1(0) Notes 760
5 (5) Win32 630
6 (7) The First Run Page in Internet Explorer 594
7 (6) Kernel 585
8 (9) Boot Configuration Data (BCD) 455
9 (18) SVCHOST 441
10 (8) HAL Versions 436
10 (11) The Advanced Boot Options Menu in Windows Vista 436
12 (13) Boot Options: numproc 405
13 (12) Visual C++ 402
14 (20) SYSENTER and SYSEXIT in Windows 393
15 (17) The Boot Status Data Log 359
16 (13) Shell 340
17 (16) Installed License Values 329
18 (34) About This Site 316
19 (22) SHELL32 Functions 313
20 (15) Internet Explorer 311
21 (21) NTDLL Functions 308
22 (25) The Service Control Manager Eventlog Provider 291
23 (23) Boot Options: detecthal 283
24 (26) KERNEL32 Functions 267
24   CommonPlacesFolder 267
26 (29) C1XX Errors 251
27 (24) Licensed Processors in Windows Vista 249
28 (19) BCD Elements 248
29 (27) Boot Options: nx 239
30 (33) Feature Control in Internet Explorer 232
31 (31) ZwQueryLicenseValue 215
32 (40) Windows Policy Identifiers 210
33 (37) The Windows Explorer Command Line 196
34 (39) BCD Objects 193
35 (28) Boot Options: pae 191
35   IEFRAME Functions 191
37 (32) Boot Windows from a Network 185
38 (36) LINK /IGNORE 174
39 (42) COMCTL32 Versions 173
40 (29) Windows Diagnostic Infrastructure 172
41 (34) Windows Kernel Exports 168
42 (40) Install a Boot Logo for Windows XP 159
43 (46) Memory Limit for Hibernation Support 158
44 (43) The x86 BIOS Emulator 154
45 (45) Software Analysis By Reverse Engineering 145
46 (44) What’s New? 140
47   Compiler Options 134
48 (57) The Product Suite 132
49 (52) Internet Explorer Options 131
50   Viewing the Firmware Memory Map 125
51 (48) Bug Check 0x9A 124
52 (47) WPP Software Tracing in SERVICES.EXE 122
53 (50) Kernel Versions 119
54 (38) LINK /COMMENT 117
54 (58) Get More from the Windows Boot Menu 117
56   InitCommonControlsEx 113
57 (55) Missing Icons in Notification Area 112
58 (51) Disable Global Hot Keys 110
58   CMPXCHG8B Support in the Windows Kernel 110
60   Notes on Computer Security 107
61   Operation Aurora 106
61   Icon Exceptions for Taskbar Grouping 106
61 (49) Consultation 106
64 (54) Internet Explorer Registry API 104
65   CPU Identification by the Windows Kernel 100