A customer recently reported a rather peculiar problem. They were working on a roll out of Windows 7, and one of the policies they employed on their domain was the “Show only specified control panel applets” setting. As its name implies, this policy allows an administrator to specify the names …
A walk-through of creating a Netmon parser in the context of a real case As is obvious to frequent readers of our blog, our team logs a lot of time in our debugger of choice (for some, windbg, for others, kd). However, a debugger is not always the best tool …
Recently I received a debug request for a customer having problems running large executables. On their systems, they could run most EXEs without any problems, but they had two programs that were over 1.8 GB which, when run, would display the following error: If they tried to run them in …
Hi, this is Matt from the Windows Performance team. Sometimes we are presented withproblems that defy our usual troubleshooting and require a creative approach. In a recentcase, we needed a way to test the responsiveness of an application as text was typed into itsfields. Initially, we tested the program using …
