By Michael Morales, 03/01/2010
When a system has shutdown or restart issues, system shutdown statistics can help in resolving the problem. To get this information, use the Windows Performance Toolkit ...
By Michael Morales, 03/01/2010
What do you do when you get an error message and the source of the error isn't immediately obvious? Use a couple of Sysinternals tools, plus some helpful guidance, to track down ...
By Michael Morales, 12/03/2009
What can you do to shorten a call to Microsoft support? Use Disk2vhd, a new Windows Sysinternals tool that converts your physical system to a .vhd image. In many cases, support ...
By Michael Morales, 09/29/2009
Learn how to identify Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI) provider DLLs, and use the DLL information to find out what vendor the DLL binary belongs and whether updates are ...
By Michael Morales, 08/15/2009
Use this brand-new free tool to save you much time and hassle the next time you run into a high-CPU problem.
By Michael Morales, 07/15/2009
Get insight into your system's most processor-intensive operations, by using the Microsoft Xperf tool to perform a stackwalking trace, then viewing trace-file data and ...
By Michael Morales, 06/15/2009
Use Xperf to uncover system and application process information that can help you troubleshoot common problems, such as high CPU usage and activity spikes in disk I/O.
By Michael Morales, 05/13/2009
Learn how to work with windbg.exe in the Debugging Tools for Windows, for those times when you can't rely on your usual diagnostic tools and need a backup troubleshooting plan.
By Michael Morales, 04/13/2009
Getting too many out of memory messages or application startup failures? Such problems are symptoms of desktop heap issues, which you can troubleshoot and solve using Task Manager ...
By Michael Morales, 03/24/2009
Collect valuable data to solve system problems using a tool created by Microsoft support engineers.
By Michael Morales, 02/10/2009
Use three handy tools—perfwiz.exe, logman.exe, and Performance Analysis of Logs (PAL)—to streamline the task of collecting and analyzing Windows Performance Monitor data.
By Michael Morales, 12/22/2008
Diagnose and fix application failures, script hangs, and other system problems related to Windows Management Instrumentation mishaps with the handy WMIDiag tool.
By Michael Morales, 12/15/2008
Learn how to resolve these cryptic System event log errors—or at least narrow down an event 333 error's cause.
By Michael Morales, 11/21/2008
Use this graphical Windows debugging tool to analyze captured user dump data for a process and determine the cause of a crash, memory leak, or Microsoft IIS hang.
By Michael Morales, 10/29/2008
Solve performance problems by using two free Microsoft tools to reveal which components within a process consume the most memory.
By Michael Morales, 09/26/2008
Got a memory leak? Run UMDH to take process snapshots that can help you pinpoint a leak and fix it faster.