http://www.windowsitpro.com/authors/author/author/5611119/rss/5611119en-USSun, 27 May 2012 07:06:19 GMTSun, 27 May 2012 07:06:19 GMThttp://www.windowsitpro.com/article/performance/diagnose-shutdown-problems-with-xbootmgr
By Michael Morales
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 xbootmgr.exe tool, which can help you pinpoint problematic services during shutdown.]]>Michael MoralesMon, 01 Mar 2010 10:42:00 GMThttp://www.windowsitpro.com/article/performance/diagnose-shutdown-problems-with-xbootmgrhttp://www.windowsitpro.com/article/utilities/find-the-source-of-an-error-message
By Michael Morales
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 the error’s source.]]>Michael MoralesMon, 01 Mar 2010 10:34:00 GMThttp://www.windowsitpro.com/article/utilities/find-the-source-of-an-error-messagehttp://www.windowsitpro.com/article/utilities/disk2vhd-the-windows-troubleshooter-s-new-best-friend
By Michael Morales
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 can use the .vhd to reproduce your technical problem, then resolve it.]]>Michael MoralesThu, 03 Dec 2009 00:00:00 GMThttp://www.windowsitpro.com/article/utilities/disk2vhd-the-windows-troubleshooter-s-new-best-friendhttp://www.windowsitpro.com/article/windows-management-instrumentation-wmi/find-the-binary-file-for-any-wmi-class
By Michael Morales
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 available to fix the problem.]]>Michael MoralesTue, 29 Sep 2009 00:00:00 GMThttp://www.windowsitpro.com/article/windows-management-instrumentation-wmi/find-the-binary-file-for-any-wmi-classhttp://www.windowsitpro.com/article/performance/got-high-cpu-usage-problems-procdump-em-
By Michael Morales
Use this brand-new free tool to save you much time and hassle the next time you run into a high-CPU problem.]]>Michael MoralesSat, 15 Aug 2009 00:00:00 GMThttp://www.windowsitpro.com/article/performance/got-high-cpu-usage-problems-procdump-em-http://www.windowsitpro.com/article/performance/under-the-covers-with-xperf
By Michael Morales
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 interpreting the results.]]>Michael MoralesWed, 15 Jul 2009 00:00:00 GMThttp://www.windowsitpro.com/article/performance/under-the-covers-with-xperfhttp://www.windowsitpro.com/article/performance/examining-xperf
By Michael Morales
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.]]>Michael MoralesMon, 15 Jun 2009 00:00:00 GMThttp://www.windowsitpro.com/article/performance/examining-xperfhttp://www.windowsitpro.com/article/performance/administrators-intro-to-debugging
By Michael Morales
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.]]>Michael MoralesWed, 13 May 2009 00:00:00 GMThttp://www.windowsitpro.com/article/performance/administrators-intro-to-debugginghttp://www.windowsitpro.com/article/windows-2000/conquer-desktop-heap-problems
By Michael Morales
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 and the Dheapmon tool and registry settings.]]>Michael MoralesMon, 13 Apr 2009 00:00:00 GMThttp://www.windowsitpro.com/article/windows-2000/conquer-desktop-heap-problemshttp://www.windowsitpro.com/article/utilities/reap-the-power-of-mps_reports-data
By Michael Morales
Collect valuable data to solve system problems using a tool created by Microsoft support engineers.]]>Michael MoralesTue, 24 Mar 2009 00:00:00 GMThttp://www.windowsitpro.com/article/utilities/reap-the-power-of-mps_reports-datahttp://www.windowsitpro.com/article/performance/get-a-handle-on-windows-performance-analysis
By Michael Morales
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.]]>Michael MoralesTue, 10 Feb 2009 00:00:00 GMThttp://www.windowsitpro.com/article/performance/get-a-handle-on-windows-performance-analysishttp://www.windowsitpro.com/article/windows-management-instrumentation-wmi/resolve-wmi-problems-quickly-with-wmidiag
By Michael Morales
Diagnose and fix application failures, script hangs, and other system problems related to Windows Management Instrumentation mishaps with the handy WMIDiag tool.]]>Michael MoralesMon, 22 Dec 2008 00:00:00 GMThttp://www.windowsitpro.com/article/windows-management-instrumentation-wmi/resolve-wmi-problems-quickly-with-wmidiaghttp://www.windowsitpro.com/article/registry2/troubleshooting-the-infamous-event-id-333-errors
By Michael Morales
Learn how to resolve these cryptic System event log errors—or at least narrow down an event 333 error’s cause.]]>Michael MoralesMon, 15 Dec 2008 00:00:00 GMThttp://www.windowsitpro.com/article/registry2/troubleshooting-the-infamous-event-id-333-errorshttp://www.windowsitpro.com/article/performance/simplify-process-troubleshooting-with-debugdiag
By Michael Morales
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.]]>Michael MoralesFri, 21 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMThttp://www.windowsitpro.com/article/performance/simplify-process-troubleshooting-with-debugdiaghttp://www.windowsitpro.com/article/performance/say-whoa-to-runaway-processes
By Michael Morales
Solve performance problems by using two free Microsoft tools to reveal which components within a process consume the most memory.]]>Michael MoralesWed, 29 Oct 2008 00:00:00 GMThttp://www.windowsitpro.com/article/performance/say-whoa-to-runaway-processeshttp://www.windowsitpro.com/article/utilities/resolve-memory-leaks-faster
By Michael Morales
Got a memory leak? Run UMDH to take process snapshots that can help you pinpoint a leak and fix it faster.]]>Michael MoralesFri, 26 Sep 2008 00:00:00 GMThttp://www.windowsitpro.com/article/utilities/resolve-memory-leaks-faster