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How long??

By dlambert ⋅ July 14, 2009 ⋅ View Comments

I love these dialog boxes: How hard, exactly, would it be to figure out that a process that had been running at a rate of “x” had suddenly dropped to an entirely unreasonable speed — so slow, for instance, that perhaps it had actually stopped, and thus, would very likely either fail or resume operating [...]

Countdown to release, according to Microsoft

By dlambert ⋅ February 3, 2009 ⋅ View Comments

A while ago, I pointed out a Microsoft development team that was doing a great job of giving us glimpses inside the sausage factory.  In that instance, the Windows Home Server team was showing us how bugs are managed late in the release cycle. Now, Microsoft is opening up again – on a larger scale [...]

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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