January, 2009

Happy Friday AskPerf readers! Today’s post is a short one, in which we’re going to quickly discuss an odd issue that we have seen a few times recently following the installation of Windows Server 2003 Service Pack 2. As the title indicates, this issue...

On Thursday, February 12th, Mark Russinovich will host a virtual roundtable for IT Pros worldwide to discuss Windows 7 Beta. Mark, and a panel of Subject Matter Experts (SME’s) will discuss Windows 7 and what’s in store for IT Pros. Learn about the evolution...

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. ...

Today we’re getting you caught up on some of the changes in the Internet Explorer world.  The IE Product team has been posting a lot of information about IE8 recently – here are some of the key posts: IE8 Blocker Toolkit Available : IE8 will be distributed...

Hello AskPerf Readers. My name is Mick Bailey, and I am a Support Escalation Engineer on the Performance team in Texas. Recently I was working with a customer on an issue concerning print notifications for Windows Vista, and I thought that the information...

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...