Joe Nord

Windows Explorer does not show the disk file create and modified times for MP4 files. Instead it shows MP4 embedded date and time and if that is zeros, sorting videos can be complicated. more »

When Windows 10 starts and users logon, the operating system by default will automatically restart all the applications that were running when the system was rebooted including launching them to reload the documents and revisit web browser URLs.  Handy… more »

The DOS world's need for memory grew and the 64KB available to .COM executables was no longer adequate.  The NE "new executable" executable file format was invented and uses the .EXE file extension rather than .COM.  The first 2 bytes of these files… more »

In the beginning, the DOS .COM file format was the format for executables of size less than 64KB and let's face it, who would really need more.  I'm headed down a path to discuss PE file format executables and no good discussion is right without a… more »

RIFF (.wav) file format has been around unchanged since the early 1990s and still in common use today.  This post shows details of the headers inside the .wave file including the audio format, number of channels and bits per sample. more »