Sep
08
This is probably a bit obscure but writing it up will surely help someone — if not myself next time around… I use WhatsUp Gold to monitor the machines at work. Been using it for years and it has worked great for us. Recently I hit a little challenge though. Needed to monitor the event …
Nov
24
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 …
Aug
28
Sometimes the computer seems pretty slow. You fire up Task Manager and a quick glance shows the CPU running at 100%! Flip to the Process tab, click on the CPU column heading (to sort) and see that svchost.exe is using all the cycles. Traditionally, that’s when I’d say, “oh crap.” You see, you can have …
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