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Computer running slow after installing Antivirus software?

June 1, 2008

Almost everyone I know complains about the performance of their computer when an anti-virus (A/V) product has installed, and thinks they need more memory or a faster processor. Wrong! You need to get a faster hard disk, or disable scanning of certain files. You’ll see from Task Manager that memory and other resources are plentiful [...]

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Relog Utility

July 5, 2006

Relog.exe isn’t some new fad amongst Bloggers – it’s a tool from the Windows Resource Kit that helps you convert performance counter logs produced by Performance Monitor (perfmon.exe) into common text formats such as CSV. Earlier today I ran perfmon.exe and forgot to change the logging format from the default binary format to CSV. I [...]

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Review of Protect Your Windows Network : From Perimeter to Data

June 9, 2006

When I attended TechEd Europe in July 2002 one of the most interesting sessions was presented by Steve Riley. This was an overflow session presented during lunch, and I thought it would be interesting to check out something I hadn’t planned to look at. The session covered use of IPSec, and the presentation style was [...]

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Crash reporting in Windows

June 8, 2006

Microsoft have been collecting crash data using a system known as Windows Error Reporting (“Dr Watson”) since the release of Windows XP (and possibly earlier). When a usermode error occurs in an application, a minidump and other pertinent is extracted. The user is then prompted as to whether they wish to report this information. After [...]

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