The post doesn’t mention a year. Early Microsoft Windows was very badly documented and the docs were difficult to search, so it wouldn't surprise me that it took senior level support to know that fact.

And there weren't tools like process monitor that showed way more about the state of what was running

It’s the same for 2026

i envy the folks who can actually make sense of msdn docs. they were tedious and overwhelming decades before ai made that the premiere style this year.

some parts are better than others, but god is it a quest to find anything in there.