## Summary Caught while reading through `BugReportTool` for an unrelated review: the two `_snwprintf_s` calls in `EventViewer.cpp` pass `sizeof(buff)` as the buffer-size argument, but `buff` is a `wchar_t[1000]`. `_snwprintf_s` measures its size and count arguments in **wide characters**, not bytes, so the current code advertises a 2000-wchar destination for a buffer that only holds 1000. `cpp wchar_t buff[1000]; // 2000 bytes, 1000 wchars memset(buff, 0, sizeof(buff)); _snwprintf_s(buff, sizeof(buff), fmt, ...); // <-- 2000 passed as wchar count ` If the formatted output ever exceeds 1000 wchars, the Secure CRT bounds check fires (in debug) and - depending on which `_snwprintf_s` overload the compiler selects against the safe template - it can write past the end of the stack buffer in release. Neither format string here is likely to produce 1000+ characters in practice (one substitutes a process name, the other a channel name + integer), so this is more of a latent footgun than a known crash, but the bounds are simply wrong. ## Fix Use `_countof(buff)` for the size argument (which is what `_snwprintf_s` actually wants - element count, not byte count) and pass `_TRUNCATE` for the count so output is safely capped at 999 wchars plus the null terminator: `cpp _snwprintf_s(buff, _countof(buff), _TRUNCATE, fmt, ...); ` Applied to both `GetQuery` and `GetQueryByChannel`. ## Scope Searched the rest of the repo for the same pattern (`_snwprintf_s(buf, sizeof(...))` / `_snprintf_s(buf, sizeof(...))`) - these two call sites are the only occurrences in the codebase. ## Validation - `BugReportTool.sln` rebuilds clean locally (Release|x64) and produces `PowerToys.BugReportTool.exe`. - No behavior change on the happy path - both formats are well under 1000 wchars in normal use. ## Risk Low. Two-line change in a single utility that builds event-log queries for bug reports. Truncation on overflow is strictly safer than the prior behavior. Co-authored-by: Copilot <223556219+Copilot@users.noreply.github.com>
Microsoft PowerToys
Microsoft PowerToys is a collection of utilities that help you customize Windows and streamline everyday tasks.
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🔨 Utilities
PowerToys includes over 30 utilities to help you customize and optimize your Windows experience:
📦 Installation
For detailed installation instructions and system requirements, visit the installation docs.
But to get started quickly, choose one of the installation methods below:
Download the .exe file from GitHub
Go to the PowerToys GitHub releases, scroll down and select Assets to reveal the installation files, and choose the one that matches your architecture and install scope. For most devices, that would be x64 per-user.
WinGet
Download PowerToys from [WinGet](https://github.com/microsoft/winget-cli#installing-the-client). Updating PowerToys via winget will respect the current PowerToys installation scope. To install PowerToys, run the following command from the command line / PowerShell:
- User scope installer (default)
winget install Microsoft.PowerToys -s winget
- Machine-wide scope installer
winget install --scope machine Microsoft.PowerToys -s winget
Other methods
There are [community driven install methods](https://learn.microsoft.com/windows/powertoys/install#community-driven-install-tools) such as Chocolatey and Scoop. If these are your preferred install solutions, you can find the install instructions there.
✨ What's new?
To see what's new, check out the release notes.
🛣️ Roadmap
We are planning some nice new features and improvements for the next releases – a brand-new Shortcut Guide experience, ensuring it's easier to find and install Command Palette extensions and so much more! Stay tuned for v0.100!
❤️ PowerToys Community
The PowerToys team is extremely grateful to have the support of an amazing active community. The work you do is incredibly important. PowerToys wouldn't be nearly what it is today without your help filing bugs, updating documentation, guiding the design, or writing features. We want to say thank you and take time to recognize your work. Your contributions and feedback improve PowerToys month after month!
Contributing
This project welcomes contributions of all types. Besides coding features / bug fixes, other ways to assist include spec writing, design, documentation, and finding bugs. We are excited to work with the power user community to build a set of tools for helping you get the most out of Windows. We ask that before you start work on a feature that you would like to contribute, please read our Contributor's Guide. We would be happy to work with you to figure out the best approach, provide guidance and mentorship throughout feature development, and help avoid any wasted or duplicate effort. Most contributions require you to agree to a Contributor License Agreement (CLA) declaring that you grant us the rights to use your contribution and that you have permission to do so. For guidance on developing for PowerToys, please read the developer docs for a detailed breakdown. This includes how to setup your computer to compile.
Code of conduct
This project has adopted the Microsoft Open Source Code of Conduct.
Privacy statement
The application logs basic diagnostic data (telemetry). For more privacy information and what we collect, see our PowerToys Data and Privacy documentation.

