Where in the World is Mark Russinovich?

re: Where in the World is Mark Russinovich?

Nick — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 22:25:24 GMT

I realize this may not be the most appropriate place to submit bugs in Sysinternals software, but since you mention new versions of Process Monitor I figured what the hey.

On 32-bit XP and Vista (not tested anywhere else), if you try to monitor processes when launching a very large executable (1.8GB in this instance), Procmon will crash (unfortunately I don't have the exact message handy). I'm not sure if this can be fixed, but it would be nice since it's completely impossible to capture _any_ data once you start the large executable, even when playing back saved log files.

In any case, thanks for the tools and the blog!

re: Where in the World is Mark Russinovich?

molotov — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 01:09:48 GMT

Hi Nick,

You might check out the Process Monitor forum @ http://forum.sysinternals.com/forum_topics.asp?FID=19.

Kind regards,

--molotov

re: Where in the World is Mark Russinovich?

Bob — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 01:16:35 GMT

"check out my recent interview with TechNet Edge."

Really enjoyed that one, Mark. You really are *the* go to person for a rational, insightful, no bs discussion on Windows and Windows vs alternatives. Much appreciated.

Windows Internals focus

Bruno Martínez — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 03:46:05 GMT

I was waiting for Windows Internals 5th edition, but it having focus only on Vista discourages me a little. I wanted coverage of XP and 2003 too. What is the overlap between the 4th and 5th editions? Should I read the 4th first, and then move to the 5th when it's realeased?

re: Where in the World is Mark Russinovich?

markrussinovich — 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.

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?

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 — 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?

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?

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?

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?

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!

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?

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