Defrag Tools
- 173 episodes
Andrew Richards, Chad Beeder and Larry Larsen host this deep dive into the tools used to troubleshoot systems. 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.
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16 minutes, 41 secondsDefrag Tools #169 - Debugging Tools for Windows Team3 days ago
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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 -… -
35 minutes, 47 secondsDefrag Tools #168 - Powercfg Sleep StudySep 19, 2016 at 6:00AM 1
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 on… -
56 minutes, 43 secondsDefrag Tools #167 - Debugging User Mode Crash Dumps ReduxAug 29, 2016 at 6:00AM 11
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 into… -
32 minutes, 50 secondsDefrag Tools #166 - Performance Analysis of UWP AppsAug 15, 2016 at 8:21AM 2
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 Kit… -
25 minutes, 24 secondsDefrag Tools #165 - Performance Tracing in OOBEAug 08, 2016 at 6:00AM 1
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… -
19 minutes, 16 secondsDefrag Tools #164 - Sysinternals for Nano Server - Mark RussinovichJul 04, 2016 at 6:00AM 12
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 Nano… -
31 minutes, 9 secondsDefrag Tools #163 - Virtual Hard Disk (VHD) - Sysinternals Disk2VHDMay 23, 2016 at 6:00AM 10
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 easy way… -
40 minutes, 6 secondsDefrag Tools #162 - Defrag Show Crossover - Gov MaharajMay 09, 2016 at 6:00AM 4
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… -
37 minutes, 41 secondsDefrag Tools #161 - Troubleshooting a Slow PCApr 25, 2016 at 6:00AM 9
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 ExplorerProcess MonitorAutoruns Mark Russinovich Videos on Windows Internals: 2nd video is the video… -
24 minutes, 8 secondsDefrag Tools #160 - Sysinternals PsPingApr 18, 2016 at 6:00AM 8
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 ProcDump…
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