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Working with Very Large Print Jobs

There are sometimes situations where printing of very large documents containing high resolution graphics, text and images is needed.  With the growing technology of high end cameras flourishing in the market, image sizes are growing larger and larger.  Read More...
Posted Friday, June 20, 2008 6:00 AM by CC Hameed | 1 Comments

To DEP or not to DEP …

In my previous posting on Access Violations, I briefly mentioned Data Execution Prevention (DEP).  I have recently had the opportunity to work on a couple of customer issues that caused me to dig a bit deeper into the workings of DEP, so I figured Read More...
Posted Tuesday, June 17, 2008 6:00 AM by CC Hameed | 2 Comments

The Basics of Page Faults

In our last post, we talked about Pages and Page Tables.  Today, we’re going to take a look at one of the most common problems when dealing with virtual memory – the Page Fault.  A page fault occurs when a program requests an address on a page Read More...
Posted Tuesday, June 10, 2008 6:00 AM by CC Hameed | 2 Comments

Access Violation? How dare you ...

I am sure we have all seen access violations occur since we took ownership of our first x86 PC's.  The infamous "Bluescreen", application crashes, it doesn't really matter, access violations are all over the place.  For any of you Read More...
Posted Tuesday, June 03, 2008 6:00 AM by CC Hameed | 5 Comments

Understanding Component-Based Servicing

Prior to Windows Vista, if you wanted to install optional components, Windows Updates or driver files on your system, the process was fairly simple. In Windows Vista, the new componentization architecture, known as Component-Based Servicing (CBS) changes Read More...
Posted Wednesday, April 23, 2008 7:30 AM by CC Hameed | 1 Comments

Using Special Pool to find out who is allocating a Pool Tag

OK, a quick disclaimer right at the start.  The steps we discuss in this post assume that you are very comfortable with kernel debugging, and in particular live debugging.  This is a bit of a niche post, but it is a question that we get every Read More...
Posted Tuesday, April 15, 2008 6:00 AM by CC Hameed | 1 Comments

An Introduction to Pool Tags

We’ve discussed several areas of Memory Management in our blog since we started. Today, we’re going to take a look at Pool Tags and how they can be used to identify the source of Pool Memory leaks. A pool tag is a four-byte character that is associated Read More...
Posted Friday, April 11, 2008 6:00 AM by CC Hameed | 0 Comments

Lock Pages in Memory ... do you really need it?

Back In October, we wrote a post regarding the Event ID 333 Errors and how to troubleshoot them .  At the end of that post, we mentioned the "Lock Pages in Memory" user right.  One of the things we mentioned was that if you have an Read More...
Posted Tuesday, March 25, 2008 6:00 AM by CC Hameed | 6 Comments

WS2008: Memory Management, Dynamic Kernel Addressing, Memory Priorities and I/O Handling

It's the end of the first week - seven days down and only  twenty more to go.  Today we will take a very brief look at some important enhancements to Memory Management, as well as talk about Dynamic Kernel Address Space, Memory Priorities and Read More...
Posted Thursday, February 07, 2008 6:00 AM by CC Hameed | 1 Comments

WS2008: Dynamic Link Library Loader and Address Space Load Randomization

There's only three weeks to go till Launch Day.  Today, we're going to talk about the Dynamic Link Library (DLL) Loader and Address Space Load Randomization.  In Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008, when talking about process and thread creation, Read More...
Posted Wednesday, February 06, 2008 6:00 AM by CC Hameed | 8 Comments

WS2008: Windows Error Reporting

Day Five ... only twenty-two more days to go till Launch Day.  On the menu today - Windows Error Reporting. Starting with Windows Server 2008 and Windows Vista SP1, Windows Error Reporting (WER) can be configured to collect full user-mode dump files Read More...
Posted Tuesday, February 05, 2008 6:00 PM by CC Hameed | 8 Comments

WS2008: Service Shutdown and Crash Handling

Welcome to Day Four of our series leading up to the Windows Server 2008 Launch. Hopefully you had a good weekend - many of you were probably up watching the Super Bowl. Of course, it's Monday morning now - time to get to back to work. Today's topics: Read More...
Posted Monday, February 04, 2008 6:00 AM by CC Hameed | 3 Comments

WS2008: Windows Service Hardening

Day Three of our series of posts in preparation for the Windows Server 2008 Launch and the countdown continues.  If it's a weekend for you, I hope you are enjoying yourself.  Only twenty-four more days to go till Launch Day.  Today's post Read More...
Posted Sunday, February 03, 2008 6:00 AM by CC Hameed | 2 Comments

WS2008: Startup Processes and Delayed Automatic Start

It's Day Two of our series of Windows Server 2008 posts.  Only twenty-five more days to go till the big launch.  Today's topics are Startup Processes and Delayed Automatic Start for System Services. In previous versions of Windows, during system Read More...
Posted Saturday, February 02, 2008 6:00 AM by CC Hameed | 4 Comments

WS2008: Upgrade Paths, Resource Limits & Registry Values

It's February 1, 2008. Only twenty-six more days until Windows Server 2008 is released to the world. With that in mind, we have twenty-six posts lined up between now and February 27 covering areas of Windows Server 2008 that contain both general information Read More...
Posted Friday, February 01, 2008 6:00 AM by CC Hameed | 10 Comments
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