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Device configuration overlay (DCO) is a hidden area on many of today's hard disk drives (HDDs). Usually when information is stored in either the DCO or host protected area (HPA), it is not accessible by the BIOS (or UEFI), OS, or the user. However, certain tools can be used to modify the HPA or DCO.
ATATool is freeware software that is used to display and modify ATA disk information from a Microsoft Windows environment. [1] The software is typically used to manage host protected area (HPA) and device configuration overlay (DCO) features and is broadly similar to the hdparm for Linux .
Distributed Component Object Model (DCOM) is a proprietary Microsoft technology for communication between software components on networked computers.DCOM, which originally was called "Network OLE", extends Microsoft's COM, and provides the communication substrate under Microsoft's COM+ application server infrastructure.
COMDLG32.DLL, the Common Dialog Box Library, implements a wide variety of Windows dialog boxes intended to perform what Microsoft deems 'common application tasks'. Starting with the release of Windows Vista, Microsoft considers the "Open" and "Save as" dialog boxes provided by this library as deprecated and replaced by the 'Common Item Dialog API'.
The Object Windows Library (OWL) is a C++ object-oriented application framework designed to simplify desktop application development for Windows and (some releases) OS/2. OWL was introduced by Borland in 1991 and eventually deprecated in 1997 in favor of their Visual Component Library (VCL).
The Microsoft Foundation Classes (MFC), a C++ wrapper around the Windows API. The Windows Template Library (WTL), a template-based extension to ATL and a replacement of MFC; The Object Windows Library (OWL), Borland's alternative to MFC. The Visual Component Library (VCL) is Embarcadero's toolkit used in C++Builder and Delphi. It wraps the ...
The library loaded graphic drivers (*.BGI) and vector fonts (*.CHR) from disk in order to provide device independent graphics support. It was possible for the programmer to embed the graphic driver into the executable file by linking the graphic driver as object code with the aid of a utility provided by the compiler ( bgiobj.exe ).
Microsoft Detours is an open source library for intercepting, monitoring and instrumenting binary functions on Microsoft Windows. [1] It is developed by Microsoft and is most commonly used to intercept Win32 API calls within Windows applications.