1. Background: How Windows Turns a Number into a Sentence An event in the Windows event log is not a sentence. On disk, in the EVTX, an event is a numeric EventID, a publisher GUID, a set of binar...

1. Background: What is DDE? Dynamic Data Exchange (DDE) is a legacy Windows IPC protocol that lets applications communicate through window messages. Introduced in Windows 2.0 (1987), it was techni...