MagicAndre1981

• Defrag Tools: #40 - WPT - WPR & WPA

  May 13, 2013 at 12:02 PM

  [00:40] - Windows Performance Recorder (UI)

  the subfolder is created for .net ngened symbols if you have .net processes running.

  [19:18] - Symbols & SymCache

  where you able to repro the slow PDB decoding I talked some time ago?

  Btw, this slide (http://media.ch9.ms/teched/na/2011/ppt/WCL316.pptx) mentions a program symcachegen.exe to convert PDBs to symcache fies from a command line. Why is this tool not part of the public WPT?

   

  The scroling issue is what I already told during the DP/CP and RP. The older xperfview is better to display such stacks. The new WPA only has scrollbars everywhere

• Defrag Tools: #39 - Windows Performance Toolkit

  May 13, 2013 at 10:03 AM

  @Kellen Sunderland

   

  Such audio issues are caused by DPC issues. Run this command from cmd prompt with admin rights:

  xperf -on latency -stackwalk profile -buffersize 1024 -MaxFile 256 -FileMode Circular && timeout -1 && xperf -d DPC_Interrupt.etl

   

  wait 60s and press a key.

  Now run this:

  xperf -I DPC_Interrupt.etl -a dpcisr > dpc.txt

  and open the txt file. Now look which drivers have an "Elapsed Time" larger 1024µs.

   

  Update the driver and see if this fixes it.

• Defrag: Explorer Won't Run, Network Limited Access, Touch PC's We Like

  May 09, 2013 at 12:47 AM

  [00:20] - Explorer won't run, clicking icon or Windows+E shortcut.

  I also use TSVN and TGit and Explorer still works. Run ProcMon in background to see what is going on.

  Btw, will this ugly limit of displayed overlay icons ever increased?

   

  [03:38] - Network icon in SysTray showing Limited Access.

  check that the DNS client service (dnscache) runs. Otherwise the apps disable that ugly message, that they don't have internet.

  [10:25] - How to rename user profile and retain settings.

  Use Windows Easy Transfer instead.

  [12:10] - How to browse drives that are offline.

  use this search tool, which creates an index:

  http://locate32.cogit.net/

  Change "Look in" to your HDD drive letter and type the keyworks you look for.

  [17:47] - Pick of the Week: What are some of the touch laptops we like?

  the i7 has 4 real cores, while the i5 uses HT to get 4 "cores".

  But I bought a new dell laptop explicit without touch, because I don't like it and the ugly implementation from Win8. Optimize Win 8.1/Blue for 4:3 AND sliding from top to button (like in Gnome 3) instead from left to right and I may buy a Surface 2 RT as an additional couch surfing device, but with this ugly crappy 16:9 I'll never use a Win8.x tablet!

• Defrag Tools: #39 - Windows Performance Toolkit

  May 06, 2013 at 1:44 PM

  finally you touch my number 1 tool 

   

  [06:23] - Articles

  ETW/xperf is too complicated for starters, so you don't see much users who use it. And the nw WPA.exe makes it even more complicated for new users, because no graphs are selected by default. So the users have no idea how to start.

   

  [18:30] - Windows Performance Recorder

  xperf (win8 version) is also able to generate the .net PDBs if you set the environment variable XPERF_CreateNGenPdbs to 1

   

• Defrag: Uninstall leftovers, IE Crash, Watchdog Bugcheck

  Apr 18, 2013 at 6:42 AM

  [05:42] - Chad Beeder update on monitor turning off after 1 minute at lock screen.

  there seams to be a GUI, after applying a hack:

  http://winaero.com/blog/how-to-unlock-the-hidden-display-off-timeout-for-the-lock-screen-in-windows-8-and-windows-blue/

  

   

  [06:40] - "Leftovers" after uninstalling legacy apps as related to Windows Store apps.

  Yes, removing the apps removes all temp files from this app. And this is also the recommendation from MSFT to kill those temp files:

  http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/winappswithcsharp/thread/f00e1c9c-9214-48fc-b0f2-2d39d8b8039c

   

  [14:16] - IE crashing but unsure how to get good dump from the right process.

  I let the Windows Error reporting service to generate the dumps for me. Here is mine for IE:

  https://www.dropbox.com/s/el6d8ksz4lh2a3d/WER_InternetExplorer_full.reg

  The activates WER to generate dumps in C:\localdumps In addition it also activates AppVerifier/PageHeap

   

  [19:50] Winupdate issues.

  this means a file is not found:

  C:\Users\André>err 0x80070002
  # for hex 0x80070002 / decimal -2147024894
    COR_E_FILENOTFOUND                                             corerror.h
    DIERR_NOTFOUND                                                 dinput.h
    DIERR_OBJECTNOTFOUND                                           dinput.h
    STIERR_OBJECTNOTFOUND                                          stierr.h
  # as an HRESULT: Severity: FAILURE (1), FACILITY_WIN32 (0x7), Code 0x2
  # for hex 0x2 / decimal 2
    ERROR_FILE_NOT_FOUND                                           winerror.h
  # The system cannot find the file specified.
  # 5 matches found for "0x80070002"

  (Btw, why is err.exe removed from Win8 SDK)?

  Run the WinUpdate troubleshooter and delete the content of this folder and C:\Windows\SoftwareDistribution\Download and check again for new updates.

   

  @David Garbacz have you figured out which driver it was?

• Defrag: Portable Office, Driver Bugchecks, C9 Win8 App

  Apr 04, 2013 at 6:39 AM

  [10:05] - BluRay drive causing driver power state failure bugcheck.

  also try if you can disable power saving options in device manager for the BR drive.

  14:07] - How to set drive letter for removable drive.

  Use this tool:

  USB Drive Letter Manager for Windows

  http://www.uwe-sieber.de/usbdlm_e.html

  [21:19] - Is it safe to delete appdata/local/temp?

  no, don't delete the complete folder, especially the LOW folder. This breaks apps with low IL level.

  I've automated the diskcleanup with scheduled task:

  http://support.microsoft.com/kb/253597/en-us

   

• Defrag Tools: #29 - WinDbg - ETW Logging

  Mar 29, 2013 at 6:31 AM

  @loverboy

  error 0xb7 occurs when you already run a tool which odes ETW tracing (ResMon, ProcExp):

  http://www.msfn.org/board/topic/155479-xperf-error-nt-kernel-logger-cannot-create-a-file-when-that-file-already-exists-0xb7/

• Defrag: VS Compile prob, Moving AppData, Versioning AX

  Mar 28, 2013 at 2:31 PM

  7z is the BEST file compression format! You get massive smaller files with LZMA2+ULTRA

  [03:48] - IE9 and IE10 hangs to white screen and crashes.

  inside IE, click on restore default settings. Also try to use software rendering.

   

  [07:57] - Display sleep time out doesn't persist on lock screen.

  I have no idea, because the first thing I do in Win8 is to disable this ugly and useless lockscreen crap.

  [11:10] - How to see version number on a .ax file.

  I answered this on supersuer.com:

  http://superuser.com/questions/140639/how-to-see-file-version-number-like-ax-in-windows-explorer-on-windows-7/555609#555609

  Install this nice addon to get the old XP view:

  

   

  Here you can see the file and codec-version.

   

  12:46] - Can drivers other than display be installed without uninstalling old ones?

  yes, but the driver repository folder explodes (C:\Windows\System32\DriverStore\FileRepository) when you don't uninstall the old drivers. You can use pnputil to kill old drivers after you installed the new one to cleanup this folder.

  [14:00] - Dealing with malware if rootkit tools can't find it. 

  try GMER:

  http://www.gmer.net/

   

• Defrag Tools: #33 - CLR GC - Part 1

  Mar 27, 2013 at 12:36 AM

  Vance has a complete PerfView series here on channel9:

  http://channel9.msdn.com/Series/PerfView-Tutorial

   

• Defrag: Disabling Hibernation, Superfetch, onboard VGA

  Mar 18, 2013 at 2:10 PM

  @Dax1792:

  do what Gov told you. Create fulldumps and send them to the provide email address.

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