Most Apple owners are familiar with the UDID, aka serial number, for their iOS device, but did you know that your Mac has a similar hardware UUID too? In this post, I will show you where to find it, ...

I'm programming in C/C++. I'm trying to communicate with a USB device using the SetupDi* functions from the Windows Driver Kit. To start, I need to create a GUID struct that I pass to ...

The issue occurs mainly because Remote Procedure Call or RPC which enables the communication between Winlogon and Group Policy service (GPSVC) communications, is already established before the service ...

There are a variety of reasons why developers use globally unique identifiers (GUIDs), such as assigning unique identifiers to classes or when dealing with databases. This tip contains sample code ...

Slightly less naively, you might represent each UUID minimally, as an array of 16 bytes, concatenate all of your UUIDs, and then base64 the concatenated array. This will result in a 2136-character ...

In this post, we will explore the causes and remediation for the logged error event – Event ID 158. The event indicates that two or more disk devices in Windows 11 ...