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Not getting kernel memory dumps in Windows Vista or Windows 2008?

Backstory: With the advent of Windows Vista there are changes made in how the operating system determines if it can take a kernel memory dump or not. Starting in Vista the amount of memory allocated for kernel mode could vary dynamically . If the pagefile Read More...

Posted Tuesday, October 16, 2007 5:36 PM by Brad Rutkowski | 2 Comments

Discrepancy in volume size when you extend a volume with DISKPART

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 Read More...

Posted Wednesday, August 15, 2007 9:51 PM by Brad Rutkowski | 0 Comments

The case of Windows Defender not starting.

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 Read More...

Posted Wednesday, August 15, 2007 3:03 AM by Brad Rutkowski | 1 Comments