Just some more junk that I use quite a bit that I would share with others in case it can be useful in the wild... Part 1 Part 2 IFEO via GFLAGS I've mentioned setting IFEO before but here is the real short way to do it form the command...

You might find yourself debugging an issue and a thread you are interested in is paged out. Here's the steps to use to page in the stack for the kernel side and user side... Be careful when doing this on a live machine that you want to release after debugging...

Sometimes a system just goes offline or reboots and we cannot catch it in the debugger or it is not a stop error (bugcheck) so that machine just reboots from underneath you. One technique you can use is to set a breakpoint on nt!NtSetSystemPowerState...

Windows System state analyzer tool Helps create snapshots of the computer—some of which include fixed drives, services, drivers and the registry. Users can create two snapshots at different points in time and compare them to view differences. A detailed...

Issue came in this week where when you attempted to logon to a server it would not authenticate your request and would give you a message indicating the "domain is not available". If you tried logging on via your UPN, then it would give a slightly different...

Had an issue come in today where the customer requested that one of their drives on SAN storage be expanded. They carved out the necessary disk space and expanded the LUN which was verified showing 430GB total on the array. Rescanned in Disk Management...

Had a client whose machine would not load Windows Defender, each time it was opened it would eventually die on initialization: Log Name: Application Source: Application Error Date: 8/13/2007 4:03:10 PM Event ID: 1000 Task Category: (100) Level: Error...

So you went out and got yourself a new server and it came with TOE functionality, and now you're playing Windows 2008 which has TCP offload enabled but you just want to know if its actually offloading traffic. Here's the only way I know of finding what...

This is how it should look, at least this is what's working for me. Loving VMRC BTW. I'm kind of doc'ing this for myself as more and more virtual machines are coming online and we're asked to debug them and I never can remember the syntax. On the Virtual...

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=938194 This update resolves some compatibility issues and reliability issues in Windows Vista. By applying this update, you can achieve better reliability and hardware compatibility in various scenarios. This update...

Pre-Vista it could be an issue if you didn't have debugging turned on via the boot.ini file and your system stopped booting. Well in Vista and 2k8 you can enable "Debugging mode" on boot by hitting F8 after POST. You can also turn off driver signing verification...

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I have to say I am quite pleased with this little gem in Vista. Once I started using it I haven't gone back. It's a real easy way to collaborate with another user(s) when you need them to see what you see or let them drive your session. I've used it about...

You might find yourself looking for "net send" in Vista and wonder where it went? Before you flip out, there is a solution. Use MSG.exe C:\Windows\system32>msg /? Send a message to a user. MSG {username | sessionname | sessionid | @filename | *} [...