Mark Russinovich

@ACG That's my Zoomit tool: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb897434.aspx 

I'm having a lot of fun, thanks, Darth!

Daniel's video nicely complements a talk I've delivered on crash and hang analysis at various conferences. You can check out the on-demand web cast from TechEd a couple years ago here:

TechEd On-Demand Webcast: Windows Hang and Crash Dump Analysis

I answer some of the questions raised here in the comments, like how to debug a frozen system and why a dump file requires a paging file on the boot volum (the one with \Windows).

Passwords are still required to logon user accounts. While its technically possible to create a session that represents a user without using their password, there would be many serious limitations that make that approach problematic. For example, a user's protected storage area, including their EFS keys, can only be unlocked with their password. In addition, Kerberos network authentication requires the password and so none of the user's network resources would be accessible.

Thanks for the nice feedback, everyone. Glad you enjoyed the interview