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Clint Huffman Explains High CPU Troubleshooting

Oct 312009

IT pros have allot of great tools that we can use to troubleshoot situations. Clint Huffman has a great blog that walks through how he troubleshoots some of the issues he sees in the field. The latest post by Clint explains how he investigates high CPU usage on a BizTalk server. He walks through the use of PAL, Process Monitor, Process Explorer, WINDBG, and a few others. The great part about the post is how to use all of these tool to find the root issue. I personally find these post very helpful as it helps me better understand how to troubleshoot issues in my own environment. Also the post hints that PAL 2.0 will be released very soon. If you have not kept up with PAL 2.0 the big change is that it is built on PowerShell. I can’t wait to see what improvements have been made.

Clint Huffman’s Windows Troubleshooting – High CPU
http://blogs.technet.com/clinth/default.aspx

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Not My Fault Driver Test Program

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Oct 292009

One of the hardest things as an IT Pro is to recreate a situation. There are a few tools out there that help you recreate problems that impact your systems on a daily basis. One of these programs is Not My Fault written by Mark Russinovich. This tool demonstrates several different issues like driver bugs, overrunning buffers, and memory leaks. As you can see from from the picture below there are several different options you can choose from. You can get this great tool from following the link below and downloading notmyfault.zip. So now you know longer have an excuse as an IT pro that you can’t recreate a memory leak or driver issue. Download the program now and start practicing how you identify these issues.

Not My Fault Download Link From Sysinternals
http://download.sysinternals.com/files/notmyfault.zip

Not My Fault Driver Crash Test Program

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Windows 7 Performance Experience

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Oct 282009

With Windows 7 having just been out for a week or so I thought I would share a quick experience. I have an old Toshiba Satellite laptop (P10-S429) which has a P 4 processor with 512 MB physical memory. I had my doubts if Windows 7 would run on this machine as it is a the bare minimum hardware standards set by Microsoft. I can now say that I am very surprised at how well it actually does perform. I actually believe that its performs is even better running Windows 7 then it did running windows XP. So I am sure that there are other IT people out there that are running Windows 7 on older machines. I would love to hear what your experience has been so far. Also check out the video below from PCWIZKid’s Tech Talk. They do a very good job at dual booting a machine with Vista and Windows 7 to compare the performance.