A while ago, I got the opportunity to work on an interesting case where the customer’s Explorer process was showing a continuous increase in handle count. Using Process Explorer we could see that these handles were open to various Iexplore.exe processes...

Hello all, Anshuman Ghosh here. A while back, I came across and issue where a customer had a VDI deployment of Windows XP machines running on Windows Server 2008 R2 Hyper-V servers. The problem was that while performance of the virtualized desktops was...

Hello AskPerf readers.  My name is Edwin Rocky and this is my first post on the blog. I had recently worked on a case where we noticed that on a Windows Server 2008 R2 machine when we use the Wmic command to set the automatic page file setting to...

Hello AskPerf Blog readers! We just announced the Beta release of Service Pack 1 (SP1) for Windows 7 and Server 2008 R2. This Service Pack includes all post RTM updates along with a few incremental updates. The SP1 beta will help you:   · Keep your...

Hi all, As discussed in my blog post from way back in January, today is the End of Life for Windows 2000, Windows XP SP2 and Windows Vista RTM support. Below are links to the Windows 7 Upgrade Advisor, and both the support lifecycle site as well as recent...

· Hi all, A few years ago, when Windows Server 2008 released, we blogged about some changes made in the operating system to reduce the overall attack surface of installed services on the Server. This was taking changes made in Windows Server Service Pack...

Hello AskPerf readers, Just want to let you know of a new support offering that we are in the process of rolling out. I am sure many of you have contacted Microsoft for support in the past and are aware of our various support offerings. We have Consumer...