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Windows Update

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Reboot needed – really??

By dlambert ⋅ March 11, 2009 ⋅ View Comments

Image by Daniel F. Pigatto via Flickr It just happened to me again.  I came into work and was greeted by the cold, grey screen that told me my PC had rebooted.  Windows Update had struck again. I’ve got a PC that hosts my development environment in a VM, so every time this happens, not [...]

Sysinternals Tools

By dlambert ⋅ January 30, 2009 ⋅ View Comments

Image by Getty Images via Daylife A number of years ago, Microsoft purchased an excellent body of tools called Sysinternals.  They’re now (officially) called Windows Sysinternals. Every once in a while, I am reminded just how useful these tools are – today, it was Process Explorer.  My system was running dog-slow, and I wasn’t really [...]

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