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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

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

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

Understanding Crash Dump Files

At the end of 2007 we talked about Bugchecks and why they happen .  Today we're going to talk about the Crash Dump files themselves - the different types of dumps, how the dumps themselves are generated and why you will need a correctly sized page Read More...
Posted Tuesday, January 08, 2008 6:00 AM by CC Hameed | 6 Comments

What a Heap of ... (Part Two)

On Tuesday, we talked about Heap - what it is and how it works. Today we're going to continue our look at Heap. At the end of the last post we mentioned Look-Aside Lists and Low Fragmentation Heap. But before we dive into those, let's take a look at Heap Read More...
Posted Friday, June 29, 2007 5:14 AM by CC Hameed | 4 Comments
 
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