Defrag Tools
- 42 Episodes
Andrew Richards, Chad Beeder and Larry Larsen host this deep dive into the tools used on the tech support show Defrag. Each Defrag Tools show focuses on a specific tool, going deep in to a tool's features, explaining when and why you should use the tool, and provides experience based tips to get the most out of the tool. Send your questions to DefragTools@microsoft.com.
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27 minutes, 24 secondsDefrag Tools: #37 - JavaScript - Part 1Apr 22, 2013 at 10:52 AM| 48,735 views
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In this episode of Defrag Tools, Andrew Richards, Amanda Silver and Larry Larsen start walking you through the debugging of JavaScript Windows Store applications with Visual Studio. Amanda is a Principal developer for the JavaScript engine used in Internet Explorer, Windows Store applications and… -
34 minutes, 16 secondsDefrag Tools: #14 - WinDbg - SOSNov 12, 2012 at 10:24 AM| 48,556 views 26
In this episode of Defrag Tools, Andrew Richards and Larry Larsen continue looking at the Debugging Tools for Windows (in particular WinDbg). WinDbg is a debugger that supports user mode debugging of a process, or kernel mode debugging of a computer. This installment shows how you can view the user… -
27 minutes, 20 secondsDefrag Tools: #1 - Building your USB thumbdriveJul 31, 2012 at 9:01 AM| 48,135 views 16
Welcome to the first episode of Defrag Tools where Andrew Richards and I will be walking you through the tools we use when troubleshooting Windows PC's. Each week we'll dive into the tools from SysInternals, showing you how to use them along with our best tips and tricks. In this episode we'll be… -
39 minutes, 13 secondsDefrag Tools: #13 - WinDbgOct 22, 2012 at 11:34 AM| 47,808 views 11
In this episode of Defrag Tools, Andrew Richards and Larry Larsen start walking you through the Debugging Tools for Windows (in particular WinDbg). WinDbg is a debugger that supports user mode debugging of a process, or kernel mode debugging of a computer. This first WinDbg installment configures… -
24 minutes, 2 secondsDefrag Tools: #9 - ProcDumpSep 24, 2012 at 11:09 AM| 47,376 views 3
In this 3 part episode of Defrag Tools, Andrew Richards and Larry Larsen walk you through Sysinternals ProcDump. ProcDump allows you to capture the memory of a process running on the computer. The dump file can be of varying size and can be taken with varying outage durations. Dumps can be triggered… -
12 minutes, 7 secondsDefrag Tools: #11 - ProcDump - Windows 8 & Process MonitorOct 08, 2012 at 9:42 AM| 47,118 views 4
In this 3 part episode of Defrag Tools, Andrew Richards and Larry Larsen walk you through Sysinternals ProcDump. ProcDump allows you to capture the memory of a process running on the computer. The dump file can be of varying size and can be taken with varying outage durations. Dumps can be… -
32 minutes, 54 secondsDefrag Tools: #36 - CLR GC - Part 4Apr 15, 2013 at 10:24 AM| 46,789 views 3
In this episode of Defrag Tools, Andrew Richards, Maoni Stephens and Larry Larsen continue walking you through the CLR Garbage Collector - specifically PerfView. Maoni is the Principal developer for the GC on the CLR team. Resources:Maoni's WebLogPerfView (Download)Channel 9 - PerfView Tutorial - by… -
33 minutes, 47 secondsDefrag Tools: #16 - WinDbg - Driver VerifierNov 26, 2012 at 9:27 AM| 46,223 views 5
Not all Blue Screens of Death are easy to debug! Sometimes, you need to enable extra checking to help catch a buggy device driver. In this episode of Defrag Tools, Chad Beeder and Larry Larsen discuss using Driver Verifier in conjunction with WinDbg to track down a driver which is corrupting… -
37 minutes, 15 secondsDefrag Tools: #27 - WinDbg - Configure Kernel DebuggingFeb 11, 2013 at 9:02 AM| 46,107 views 11
In this episode of Defrag Tools, Andrew Richards, Chad Beeder and Larry Larsen continue looking at the Debugging Tools for Windows (in particular WinDbg). WinDbg is a debugger that supports user mode debugging of a process, or kernel mode debugging of a computer. This installment goes over the… -
22 minutes, 32 secondsDefrag Tools: #12 - TaskMgr and ResMonOct 15, 2012 at 10:43 AM| 44,124 views 10
In this episode of Defrag Tools, Chad Beeder and Larry Larsen walk you through Task Manager and Resource Monitor. Sometimes you can't download Sysinternals or other troubleshooting tools, at these time, you can turn to these in-box applications that allow you to investigate the computer.…
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