[HN Gopher] Under the Hood of AFD.sys Part 1: Investigating Undo...
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       Under the Hood of AFD.sys Part 1: Investigating Undocumented
       Interfaces
        
       Author : omegadev
       Score  : 16 points
       Date   : 2025-08-03 14:06 UTC (2 days ago)
        
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       | lloydatkinson wrote:
       | There's an interesting talk about AFD.sys here too:
       | https://av.tib.eu/media/32819
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       | The real-but-unofficial name is Another Fucking Driver. I see a
       | lot of comments online of people saying they used to work at
       | Microsoft or heard from a friend that works there explaining how
       | it got this name, but I 100% remember watching a Microsoft Build
       | conference (maybe ~10 years ago?) where the person who wrote it
       | said on stage that he really did call it that, but they had to
       | name it Auxiliary Function Driver for obvious reasons.
       | 
       | Sadly I can't find that talk anywhere on the internet, but it
       | definitely happened.
        
         | mananaysiempre wrote:
         | > Sadly I can't find that talk anywhere on the internet
         | 
         | Microsoft is apparently incapable of preserving their website--
         | in particular, several years ago they destroyed what used to be
         | the centralized store for all of their videos, MSDN's Channel
         | 9. I find it useful to open an Internet Archive snapshot of
         | channel9.msdn.com from before ~2020 and navigate from there.
         | 
         | (If I sound a bit salty, it's because I found that a huge
         | number of threads on the Microsoft support forums, mostly
         | concerning older products, was "retired"--i.e. memory-holed--
         | recently enough that Google still thinks they're there. While
         | the "support" part was always a joke, the threads were still
         | occasionally better than a big fat nothing, which is what we
         | have now.)
        
         | ZeroWidthJoiner wrote:
         | Yeah, that original name is corroborated by Raymond Chen:
         | https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20171114-00/?p=97...
        
         | muststopmyths wrote:
         | Wouldn't be the "person who wrote it" unless he came back to do
         | some special presentation. That guy left windows (and maybe
         | even Microsoft) in the mid 90s. AFD has been around since the
         | beginning of NT
        
       | nly wrote:
       | Windows APIs are truly hideous
        
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