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In this episode of Defrag Tools, Andrew Richards talks to Andy Luhrs and Bill Messmer from the Debugging Tools for Windows team. We talk about what the team develops, what it is working on, the debugger object model, their blog and their feedback email address.

• Blog - https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/windbg/...

In this episode of Defrag Tools, Andrew Richards and Chad Beeder talk to Nashaat Soliman and Paresh Maisuria (program manager and developer from the Windows kernel power team) about the "Sleep Study" feature in the Powercfg tool, and how you can use it to diagnose battery drain issues...

In this episode of Defrag Tools, Andrew Richards and Chad Beeder use Debugging Tools for Windows (WinDbg) to determine the root cause of various application crashes which have occurred on Andrew's computer. We use Sysinternals ProcDump to capture the dumps.

While debugging, we take a side trip...

In this episode of Defrag Tools, Sylvain Goyette joins Chad Beeder to discuss performance tracing of Universal Windows Platform (UWP) apps.

(Sorry that Sylvain's screen is somewhat hard to read; we had some technical issues with the screen capture session.)

Resources:
Assessment and Deployment...

In this episode of Defrag Tools, Sylvain Goyette joins Chad Beeder to talk about how to collect performance traces during Windows OOBE (Out of Box Experience).

(Sorry that Sylvain's screen is somewhat hard to read; we had some technical issues with the screen capture session.)

Resources and related episodes:...

In this episode of Defrag Tools, Mark Russinovich and Andrew Mason (Program Manager for Nano Server) join Andrew Richards to discuss the release of the Sysinternals tools for Windows Server - Nano Server.

Over 40 of the Sysinternals tools have been updated to support the headless execution on...

In this episode of Defrag Tools, Chad Beeder and Andrew Richards discuss Virtual Hard Disk (VHD) files. We first dive into what a VHD is, how you can boot from a VHD by configuring bcdedit settings, and we see how they look in Disk Management. We then use Sysinternals Disk2VHD - a quick and...

In the spirit of Star Trek crossovers, Andrew Richards and Chad Beeder pay a visit to Gov (Rhymes With Orange) Maharaj, the co-host of The Defrag Show. We talk about how each series got started, the focus of each, and how the two sometimes overlap.

Gov has a wealth of knowledge, a lot of it being garnered...

In this episode of Defrag Tools, Chad Beeder and Andrew Richards walk through using various tools to determine what is causing Andrew's computer to be slow and unresponsive.

Resources:

Process Explorer
Process Monitor
Autoruns

Mark Russinovich Videos on Windows Internals:

2nd video is the video referenced...

In this episode of Defrag Tools, Chad Beeder and Andrew Richards discuss the PsPing command-line tool from Sysinternals - a more powerful replacement for the default "ping" command, which also adds additional capabilities such as bandwidth measurement.

Additional Resources:

PsPing ...