🍈 Zettelkasten

Prefix	Meaning
Alpc	Advanced Local Procedure Calls
Cc	Common Cache
Cm	Configuration manager
Dbg	Kernel debug support
Dbgk	Debugging Framework for user mode
Em	Errata manager
Etw	Event Tracing for Windows
Ex	Executive support routines
FsRtl	File System Runtime Library
Hv	Hive library
Hvl	Hypervisor library
Io	I/O manager
Kd	Kernel debugger
Ke	Kernel
Kse	Kernel Shim Engine
Lsa	Local Security Authority
Mm	Memory manager
Nt	NT system services (accessible from user mode through system calls)
Ob	Object manager
Pf	Prefetcher
Po	Power manager
PoFx	Power framework
Pp	PnP manager
Ppm	Processor power manager
Ps	Process support
Rtl	Run time library
Se	Security Reference Monitor
Sm	Store Manager
Tm	Transaction manager
Ttm	Terminal timeout manager
Vf	Driver Verifier
Vsl	Virtual Secure Mode library
Wdi	Windows Diagnostic Infrastructure
Wfp	Windows FingerPrint
Whea	Windows Hardware Error Architecture
Wmi	Windows Management Instrumentation
Zw	Mirror entry point for system services (beginning with Nt) that sets previous access mode to kernel, which eliminates parameter validation, because Nt system services validate parameters only if previous access mode is user.

If you have no suffixes, then windows does the compatibility for you. Only use suffixes if you want specific functionality

Suffix	Meaning
A	(A) ANSI Functions `CreateWindowA` Uses ANSI characters. This prevents it from using special characters.
W	(W) Wide/Unicode Functions Unicode. So chars do not take exactly 1 byte. This is opposite to (A), these function can use special characters.
Ex	(Ex) Extended Control Very overloaded versions of the original for added functionality. `VirtualAllocEx` allocates virtual memory inside the calling process `VirtualAllocEx` allocates virtual memory inside any process. Allows you alot of fine tweaking

Combinations

If a argument allows a combination of enums, then you are able to pass it like ENUM1 | ENUM2.