Originally Posted by
Shaggy Hiker
How about viruses and hacking? As a general rule, programs do not write into the memory space reserved for other programs. Operating systems try to enforce this, so pretty much anything that attempts to circumvent those rules is going to be either misguided or malicious or both. Consider what that would allow you to do. What is in memory at all times? The program you are interested in, to be sure, but also the operating system itself. Overwrite the right parts of THAT code in RAM, and your computer might crash so hard that your only alternative would be to reformat the drives. It isn't likely that the damage would be that severe, but it could easily result in a BSoD. Naturally, MS would prefer that people not write programs that wreck their OS or lock their computers, and the people who would most like to achieve that result would be those with malicious intent.
So, considering the damage that it would allow you to do to peoples computers, including your own, would you like what you are asking for to be easy?