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Typing neither 'Beam me up' nor 'Engage' will cause the effect you show on the video. It simply shows a list of search results!!!

What am I misunderstanding here?

this seams to work only for US. I also see nothing in Germany.

[06:35] - Tiles on Start Screen looks incorrect after changing fonts.

the downloaded ISO from the tool doesn't include a WIM, only an encrypted ESD file which can't be opened.

Use the new DISM command

DISM /Online /Cleanup-Image /RestoreHealth

to repair missing files. This is the advanced version of the checksur tool from Vista/7. If the files can't be restored, the clean files are now downloaded from the Internet (WindowsUpdate).

Finally MS implemented my request and so you no longer have to download this large checksur tool each time again. If you were unlucky the corrupted files where not part of the checksur tool. So this new way is much, much better

[11:00] - What is the difference between Bitlocker on Windows 7 and Windows 8.

the most important difference is, that Win8's bitlocker now only encrypts the real data and not the complete drive.

[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

@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.

[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!

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

[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?

[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

@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/

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/

Vance has a complete PerfView series here on channel9:

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