January, 2010

Today I would like to do a quick walkthrough of the VMMap tool from Windows Sysinternals . This tool gives us a neat summary of a process’ virtual and physical memory usage. It shows a graphical summary as well as a detailed report of a given process...

Hello AskPerf! Blake here again with another informative AskPerf Blog post. Today we are going to take a brief look at some of the new features in Windows PowerShell 2.0. As you may or may not know, PowerShell 2.0 is now included in Windows 7 and Windows...

Hello all, this is just a quick reminder that Windows 2000 and Windows XP Service Pack 2 are nearing end-of-support. This applies to both Windows 2000 Server and Windows 2000 Professional, as well as all editions of Windows XP with SP2. On July 13th,...

This is in continuation of the topic discussed by John Dickson in his blog post entitled Installing Windows Vista Print Drivers on Windows Server 2003 http://blogs.technet.com/askperf/archive/2008/09/19/installing-windows-vista-print-drivers-on-windows...

Computer Hung/Unresponsive (Pre-Windows Server 2008) Description: A hang is typically defined as a condition where a machine is non-responsive over the network and\or at the console. This usually manifests itself in not being able to log onto...

There often arises a need to figure out what may have changed on a system, either due to a specific issue or even to compare the difference between two systems. Today I would like to introduce you to the Windows System State Analyzer utility. Unless you...

The Remote Desktop Services (Terminal Services) Team Blog has posted an interesting write-up pertaining to Virtual Desktop Pool; check it out:   http://blogs.msdn.com/rds/archive/2010/01/04/virtual-desktop-pool.aspx Tim Newton   Share this post...

  Hello all, happy New Year and welcome back from the holidays. I recently worked a case involving intermittent COM+ corruption, and resetting security permissions would alleviate the issue for a period of several weeks. As I am sure you can imagine...