Lot 15: detect the games marked by hand, and make the idle look cheap - #10

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Record the game the presence writer never saw, and propose Lot 15

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Add watch-games to the probe, to measure what Windows writes to its list

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Record the first probe run: a hand-ticked entry shadows Microsoft's own

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Record the second probe run: the registry notification never comes

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Measure what the second signal costs a poll, and an elevated process

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Try nine ways of being told the game list changed; WMI is told

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Record why the notification may be silent, and a poll 130 times cheaper

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Decide the cheap poll and the hint, from Microsoft's documentation first

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Detect the games marked by hand, and make the idle look cheap

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Close Lot 15 on its field run, and measure what the watcher holds

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Tighten Lot 15's code after review, and test its rules without Windows

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Write down what Lot 15 taught: documentation first, cost at rest

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