Defrag Tools: #52 - Microsoft Fix it Center Pro

In this episode of Defrag Tools, Andrew Richards, Chad Beeder and Larry Larsen talk about Crashes, Hangs and Slow Performance. We talk about how to approach these issues and list the tools that can help you analyze them.
Resources:
Sysinternals VMMap
Sysinternals ProcDump
Debugging Tools for Windows
Windows Performance Toolkit
Timeline:
[00:00] - General Troubleshooting
[00:34] - Crashes
[04:10] - Windows Error Reporting
[04:40] - AeDebug
[09:15] - Event Viewer - Application Log - "Source:Application Error, Event ID:1000"
[10:10] - BSOD
[10:51] - Event Viewer - System Log - "Source:BugCheck, Event ID:1001"
[11:54] - System | Advanced | Startup and Recovery - Restart
[13:55] - OCA
[15:15] - Hangs
[17:09] - Forcing a Hard Reboot (ACPI)
[18:50] - Store app hangs - PLM restarts app on hang
[19:48] - Desktop app hangs - "Not Responding" - DWM desktop composition
[26:44] - Slow Performance
[27:10] - Windows Performance Toolkit
[29:09] - Email us your issues at defragtools@microsoft.com
How to default windbg to have .prefer_dml 1 on by default?
@Ytterbium: Add -c ".prefer_dml 1" to the command line for the .dmp association.
Hi,
Any plans to talk about Application Verifier (the tool we downloaded during the first video and never used since)?
Thanks.
@Anatoli: Yep, need to do that still. It's on the to-do list.
still on the list ?
Larry, Dont you prefer large screen machines to that tiny little thing. this is the problem i have with surface, its too small, they need to make a Surface Laptop with a 17 inch screen