Where in the World is Mark Russinovich?

re: Where in the World is Mark Russinovich?

Devon Musgrave — Sat, 14 Feb 2009 03:20:17 GMT

An update from Mark about the book: http://blogs.msdn.com/microsoft_press/archive/2009/02/13/update-from-mark-russinovich-about-windows-internals.aspx

Where in World is WinXP-SP2+SP3?

Athena — Sun, 19 Oct 2008 03:04:51 GMT

I know XP-SP3 wasn't in Edition 4, and I don't think it covered SP2 (don't even see any mention of SP1 in it).

I hope you can at least cover WinXP-SP3 and maybe highlight differences in Vista v. XP -- maybe *possible* differences in Windows "7" -- will it solve the performance and driver compatibility problems brought into Vista?

re: Where in the World is Mark Russinovich?

Rinzwind — Mon, 15 Sep 2008 20:20:45 GMT

Btw I don't have problems using newsid on Vista 32 bit, but I do read about some problems on the internet. So a revisit to check if everything still works ok is greatly appreciated!

Imaging and running newsid /a [newcomputername] is just great instead of using the slow sysprep which also changes other things!

re: Where in the World is Mark Russinovich?

Rinzwind — Mon, 15 Sep 2008 20:05:27 GMT

>>...and enhancements to existing ones...<<

Please, please PLEASE revisit newsid.exe because sysprep is just a pain in the *ss... nNewsid works fast and clean. Why doesn't MS inderstand that we need a simple tool like newsid! So take a look at Vista and 2008 compatibility. I and many others would be very gratefull.

re: Where in the World is Mark Russinovich?

HiddenBrains — Sat, 13 Sep 2008 07:46:55 GMT

Really enjoyed that one "check out my recent interview with TechNet Edge." Mark.

re: Where in the World is Mark Russinovich?

Px — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 19:59:45 GMT

"Finally, Bryce and I have some exciting Sysinternals updates, including a major Process Monitor update and enhancements to Process Explorer, planned for release in the coming weeks and months."

Mark, can you tell, update for Pagedefrag to work on x64 systems among them?

re: Where in the World is Mark Russinovich?

John — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 18:09:24 GMT

Ok, but why would someone make a 1.8 GB self-extracting archive? Wouldn't it make more sense to have a small executable that operates on a big archived data file? It's probably failing because it has to extract a whopping 1.8 GB!

re: Where in the World is Mark Russinovich?

Nick — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 22:49:23 GMT

John: Exactly. It's a self-extracting archive that does some kind of file/registry validation/manipulation before starting the extraction. It was failing on some systems and I was trying to find out why. Unfortunately Procmon wasn't much help due to this issue.

re: Where in the World is Mark Russinovich?

John — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 18:09:14 GMT

Nick: Out of morbid curiosity, what is this 1.8 GB monstrosity? Some kind of self-extracting installer or something?

re: Where in the World is Mark Russinovich?

Mark Russinovich — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 03:53:06 GMT

Yes, read the 4th edition for Windows 2000, XP and Server 2003. We decided that the book would have gotten way to complex if we had tried to cover XP, Server 2003, and Vista/Server 2008, highlighting the differences between them.