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Two Minute Drill: Using PROCDUMP

Hello again AskPerf!  Blake Morrison here to introduce you to a new tool from Sysinternals called ProcDump.  If you are familiar with AdPlus then ProcDump will be a welcome addition to your debugging arsenal.  ProcDump is a new command Read More...
Posted Tuesday, August 18, 2009 6:00 AM by CC Hameed | 3 Comments

Two Minute Drill: Debugging – lm, not just Alphabet Neighbors

I know – it really does seem like I’m on a bit of a Sesame Street kick at the moment, doesn’t it? Ah well - it is Friday and the weekend is almost upon us. Why not have a little fun? Today, we’re continuing on with looking at different debugger commands. Read More...
Posted Friday, August 07, 2009 6:00 AM by CC Hameed | 0 Comments

Two Minute Drill: Debugging and the k* Commands

Good morning AskPerf! 2009 is moving fast – it’s hard to believe we’re already into August! Today, we’re continuing on with our debugging focus. Over the next few posts, we’ll be looking at different command types within the debugger. Today’s post is Read More...
Posted Tuesday, August 04, 2009 6:00 AM by CC Hameed | 0 Comments

Two Minute Drill: Stack Basics

Welcome back AskPerf!  Carrying on with our debugging / architectural theme from the last couple of weeks, today’s topic is about the stack.  A stack is a way of storing information – a data structure.  When a new object is placed on the Read More...
Posted Friday, July 31, 2009 6:00 AM by CC Hameed | 1 Comments

Two Minute Drill: The .MSP file

Hello AskPerf – my name is Digvijay Nath, and I’m a Support Engineer on the Performance team in our Bangalore office.  Today, I’m going to quickly cover the .MSP file used by the Windows Installer.  The installer uses different file types to Read More...
Posted Tuesday, May 26, 2009 6:00 AM by CC Hameed | 2 Comments

Two Minute Drill: Application Verifier

Happy Friday AskPerf.  My name is Syed Yusuf, and I am a Support Engineer on the Performance team.  Application crash issues can be somewhat tricky to resolve – especially if we’re dealing with a third party application.  Today we’re going Read More...
Posted Friday, May 22, 2009 6:00 AM by CC Hameed | 1 Comments

Two Minute Drill: TYPEPERF

Hello again AskPerf! Blake Morrison here to discuss a little known OS tool called TYPEPERF. TYPEPERF is a built-in tool that writes performance data to the command window or to a log file. If you are a command line junkie, love to script, and need to Read More...
Posted Tuesday, May 12, 2009 6:00 AM by CC Hameed | 1 Comments

Two Minute Drill: The New MPS Reports

Happy Friday AskPerf! Today’s post is a quick overview of the new MPS Reports tool that was released last week. For those of you that have worked on support incidents with us in the past, you’re used to downloading multiple flavors of the MPS Reports Read More...
Posted Friday, May 01, 2009 6:00 AM by CC Hameed | 6 Comments

Two Minute Drill: Performance Analysis of Logs Tool (PAL)

Today’s post comes to us from Priyanka Rotti and Sudha N – two of our Support Engineers on the Performance team. Reviewing Performance Monitor Logs can be one of the most daunting tasks for an administrator, especially if it’s not something that you do Read More...
Posted Friday, April 10, 2009 6:00 AM by CC Hameed | 1 Comments

Two Minute Drill: Introduction to Windows System Resource Manager (WSRM)

Hello AskPerf!  It’s Blake Morrison here once more with some information on a Windows feature with which you may not be familiar … But, before we start off this post think about the following scenarios – how many of them have you experienced? Your Read More...
Posted Tuesday, March 31, 2009 6:00 AM by CC Hameed | 1 Comments

Two Minute Drill: PRINTBRM and the Configuration File

Good Morning AskPerf!  My name is Bernd Högen and I am a Platforms Escalation Engineer in Germany.  As we discussed in a previous post , PRINTBRM.EXE is the replacement for the now-retired PrintMig 3.1 utility.  PRINTBRM.EXE is located Read More...
Posted Friday, February 20, 2009 6:00 AM by CC Hameed | 1 Comments

Two Minute Drill: Scriptomatic 2.0

Hello AskPerf! My name is Jeffrey Worline and I am a Support Escalation Engineer on the Performance team in Texas. We’ve done a number of posts in the past about WMI, and different WMI tools, and today we’re going to take a look at a powerful tool that Read More...
Posted Tuesday, February 17, 2009 6:00 AM by CC Hameed | 0 Comments
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Who’s That Hiding in my Windows?

Hello AskPerf!  My name is Satyajit and I am a Support Engineer on the Performance team.  Today we’re going to discuss the use of a very useful Windows SysInternals tools named Autoruns that we can use to examine programs that start during the Read More...
Posted Tuesday, February 10, 2009 6:00 AM by CC Hameed | 4 Comments

Two Minute Drill: NMI

Back in “the old days”, you could use a ball-point pen to break into the debugger .  No, I haven’t stayed too long at the fair – you could use the tip of the ball-point pen to short the nearest pair of pins to create a hardware crash dump.  Read More...
Posted Friday, January 23, 2009 6:00 AM by CC Hameed | 2 Comments

Two Minute Drill: WMIDiag and Namespace Security

Hello AskPerf. Happy New Year! My name is Gangadharan Prashanth and we’re going to kick off 2009 with a quick look at WMI Namespace Security and a common error message that we see when running the WMI Diagnosis Utility (WMIDiag). When running WMIDiag, Read More...
Posted Tuesday, January 13, 2009 6:00 AM by CC Hameed | 3 Comments
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