Quick Process Monitor Tip

Back in the olden days I used to use the Sysinternals tools Filemon and Regmon when diagnosing system issues. Those were replaced years ago by another Sysinternals tool: Process Monitor.

Process Monitor does it all. You can watch file, registry, processes – you name it. It shows what succeeds, what fails and every possible result in

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Sysinternals Disk2vhd Announced

The Sysinternals folks today announced a new utility called Disk2vhd. As you might guess from the name, it creates a virtual hard drive from a running machine.

So, just as you could use VMware vCenter Converter to create VMware images of live machines, you can now do the same for Microsoft’s Hyper-V or Virtual PC.

Some interesting

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Windows Startup Tuning

I’ve been playing with a couple different ways of managing my Windows computers’ start times recently. My goal is to go from off to usable as fast as possible. Here’s a quick look at some of the tools I’ve been using.

For a quick and easy way to manage what is going to run at start

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Desktops

The Windows Sysinternals folks released a new utility today: Desktops. It is probably no secret to most readers here that I like to play with virtual desktop apps. In fact, I bet I had this one running within 5 minutes of reading the announcement.

If I had to guess, I’d suspect that it is the logical

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Sysinternals Live

This is almost the most useful and interesting Microsoft “Live” site yet: Sysinternals Live. Now, don’t get too excited about following the link — until you need one of the many excellent Sysinternals utilities.

This new site puts ‘em all in one easy to find place. No need to download and install anything either. If you

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