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Episode 1
31 July 2012 - Building your USB thumbdrive
Welcome to the first episode of Defrag Tools where Andrew Richards and I will be walking you through the tools we use when troubleshooting Windows PC's. Each week we'll dive into the tools from SysInternals, showing you how to use them along with our best tips and tricks. In this episode we'll be showing you how to get started by creating a thumb drive that you can use to fix PC's and troubleshoot problems.
Episode 2
06 August 2012 - Process Explorer
In this episode of Defrag Tools, Andrew and I walk you through Sysinternals Process Explorer. Process Explorer is a comprehensive replacement for Task Manager. It allows you to view the details of the processes running on the computer, both at a point in time and historically. The performance graphs allow you to view the CPU, I/O, Memory and GPU usage. Process Explorer can be used to find file locks, loaded DLLs, autostart locations, and many more things.
Episode 3
13 August 2012 - Process Monitor
In this 2 part episode of Defrag Tools, Andrew and I walk you through Sysinternals Process Monitor. Process Monitor allows you to view the File, Registy, Network, Process and Profiling details of the processes running on the computer. The logging allows you to go from a holistic view all the way down to the function in the stack that initiated an event. Process Monitor can be used to troubleshoot nearly all types of issues. As coined by David Solomon - "When in doubt, run Process Monitor".
Episode 4
20 August 2012 - Process Monitor - Examples
In this 2 part episode of Defrag Tools, Andrew and I walk you through Sysinternals Process Monitor. Process Monitor allows you to view the File, Registy, Network, Process and Profiling details of the processes running on the computer. The logging allows you to go from a holistic view all the way down to the function in the stack that initiated an event. Process Monitor can be used to troubleshoot nearly all types of issues. As coined by David Solomon - "When in doubt, run Process Monitor".
Episode 5
27 August 2012 - Autoruns and MSConfig
In this episode of Defrag Tools, Chad and I walk you through Sysinternals Autoruns. We also look at its predecessors: MSConfig and SysEdit. AutoRuns and MSConfig allow you to view and disable autostart entries on the computer. The autostart entries are locations in the registry and file system that can cause applications and DLLs to be automatically run at startup, login, application launch, and at many more registration points in Windows.
Episode 6
04 September 2012 - RAMMap
In this episode of Defrag Tools, Andrew and I walk you through Sysinternals RAMMap. RAMMap allows you to see how the Physical Memory (RAM) on the computer is being used. You can see how much RAM there is, for what purpose it is being used, and if there has been any memory pressure (not enough memory). We also cover a lot of Memory Management theory to understand the data in RAMMap.
Episode 7
10 September 2012 - VMMap
In this episode of Defrag Tools, Andrew and I walk you through Sysinternals VMMap. VMMap allows you to see how the Virtual Memory of a process is being used. You can see how much is used, for what purpose it is being used, and if there has been any memory leaks. Like last week with RAMMap, we cover some Memory Management theory to understand the data in VMMap.
Episode 8
21 September 2012 - Mark Russinovich
Mark Russinovich joins Andrew Richards and Larry Larsen on this episode of Defrag Tools to talk about the history of Sysinternals, his involvement with the Windows Internals book series and advice on Cybersecurity. Learn about new tools, retired tools and tools that never got completed. Get advice on troubleshooting. Get advice on how to survive a cyber attack. And much much more...
Episode 9
24 September 2012 - ProcDump
In this 3 part episode of Defrag Tools, Andrew Richards and Larry Larsen walk you through Sysinternals ProcDump. ProcDump allows you to capture the memory of a process running on the computer. The dump file can be of varying size and can be taken with varying outage durations. Dumps can be triggered immediately or can be triggered by a variety of events including CPU utilization, Memory utilization, a Performance Counter, a Hung Window and/or Native/Managed exceptions.
Episode 10
01 October 2012 - ProcDump - Triggers
In this 3 part episode of Defrag Tools, Andrew Richards and Larry Larsen walk you through Sysinternals ProcDump. ProcDump allows you to capture the memory of a process running on the computer. The dump file can be of varying size and can be taken with varying outage durations. Dumps can be triggered immediately or can be triggered by a variety of events including CPU utilization, Memory utilization, a Performance Counter, a Hung Window and/or Native/Managed exceptions.
Episode 11
08 October 2012 - ProcDump - Windows 8 & Process Monitor
In this 3 part episode of Defrag Tools, Andrew Richards and Larry Larsen walk you through Sysinternals ProcDump. ProcDump allows you to capture the memory of a process running on the computer. The dump file can be of varying size and can be taken with varying outage durations. Dumps can be triggered immediately or can be triggered by a variety of events including CPU utilization, Memory utilization, a Performance Counter, a Hung Window and/or Native/Managed exceptions.
Episode 12
15 October 2012 - TaskMgr and ResMon
In this episode of Defrag Tools, Chad Beeder and Larry Larsen walk you through Task Manager and Resource Monitor. Sometimes you can't download Sysinternals or other troubleshooting tools, at these time, you can turn to these in-box applications that allow you to investigate the computer.
Episode 13
22 October 2012 - WinDbg
In this episode of Defrag Tools, Andrew Richards and Larry Larsen start walking you through the Debugging Tools for Windows (in particular WinDbg). WinDbg is a debugger that supports user mode debugging of a process, or kernel mode debugging of a computer. This first WinDbg installment configures the system to open dumps files via an adjusted Context Menu. It shows how to set WinDbg as the (AeDebug) postmortem debugger, and how to use ProcDump v5.1 to do the same but capture the process as a dump file. It then starts to explain some basic concepts of debugging: call stacks (k), registers (r) and exception context records (.ecxr). Make sure you watch Defrag Tools Episode #1 for instructions on how to get the Debugging Tools for Windows and how to set the required environment variables for symbols and source code resolution.
Episode 14
12 November 2012 - WinDbg - SOS
In this episode of Defrag Tools, Andrew Richards and Larry Larsen continue looking at the Debugging Tools for Windows (in particular WinDbg). WinDbg is a debugger that supports user mode debugging of a process, or kernel mode debugging of a computer. This installment shows how you can view the user mode call stack and stack variables in a native, managed (.NET) or Silverlight process. We use these commands: dv dt !sos.dumpstack !sos.dumpstackobjects / !sos.dso !sos.dumpobj / !sos.do !sos.printexception / !sos.pe .frame .f+ .f- .load .unload .loadby .chain lm / lmm / lmvm .extmatch .prefer_dml 1 .lines .ecxr .cls Make sure you watch Defrag Tools Episode #1 for instructions on how to get the Debugging Tools for Windows and how to set the required environment variables for symbols and source code resolution.
Episode 15
19 November 2012 - WinDbg - Bugchecks (BSOD)
In this episode of Defrag Tools, Chad Beeder and Larry Larsen discuss analyzing kernel mode bugchecks (colloquially known as Blue Screens of Death) using WinDbg from the Debugging Tools For Windows. We use these commands: !analyze -v .hh .trap !pte !process !thread .formats .process .thread k ~ .reload Make sure you watch Defrag Tools Episode #1 for instructions on how to get the Debugging Tools for Windows and how to set the required environment variables for symbols and source code resolution.
Episode 16
26 November 2012 - WinDbg - Driver Verifier
Not all Blue Screens of Death are easy to debug! Sometimes, you need to enable extra checking to help catch a buggy device driver. In this episode of Defrag Tools, Chad Beeder and Larry Larsen discuss using Driver Verifier in conjunction with WinDbg to track down a driver which is corrupting kernel mode pool memory. Debugger commands used: !analyze -v .trap ub dp dps dc kv Make sure you watch Defrag Tools Episode #1 for instructions on how to get the Debugging Tools for Windows and how to set the required environment variables for symbols and source code resolution.
Episode 17
03 December 2012 - WinDbg - Driver Verifier - Part 2
In this episode of Defrag Tools, Michael Fourre, senior test engineer from the Driver Verifier team, pays a visit to Larry Larsen and Chad Beeder in the Channel 9 studios to give us some deeper insight into this valuable tool for catching device driver bugs!
Episode 18
10 December 2012 - WinDbg - Driver Verifier - Part 3
In this followup to last week's episode of Defrag Tools, Michael Fourre, senior test engineer from the Driver Verifier team, gives us an overview of all the available verifier settings, and explains when you might need to use them.
Episode 19
17 December 2012 - WinDbg - OCA
In this week's episode of Defrag Tools, Graham McIntyre, Senior Developer from the Windows Reliability team, gives us an overview of Online Crash Analysis (OCA). Graham describes OCA and how dump collection has been enhanced in Windows 8.
Episode 20
24 December 2012 - WinDbg - Basic Commands
In this episode of Defrag Tools, Andrew Richards, Chad Beeder and Larry Larsen continue looking at the Debugging Tools for Windows (in particular WinDbg). WinDbg is a debugger that supports user mode debugging of a process, or kernel mode debugging of a computer. This installment goes over the commands used to show the state of debug session. It also shows some of the basic commands used to view process and thread information of a user mode process. We cover these commands: version vertarget | || .sympath .srcpath .exepath .extpath .chain !analyze -v .bugcheck !error ~ ~NNs ~~[TID]s ~*k ~*r !process 0 17 !threads !findstack !uniqstack !peb !teb k= <addr> <addr> <frames> dps dpu dpa dpp .reload /f .reload /user !gle !tls Make sure you watch Defrag Tools Episode #1 for instructions on how to get the Debugging Tools for Windows and how to set the required environment variables for symbols and source code resolution.
Episode 21
01 January 2013 - WinDbg - Memory User Mode
In this episode of Defrag Tools, Andrew Richards, Chad Beeder and Larry Larsen continue looking at the Debugging Tools for Windows (in particular WinDbg). WinDbg is a debugger that supports user mode debugging of a process, or kernel mode debugging of a computer. This installment goes over the commands used to show the memory used in a user mode debug session. We cover these commands: !address -summary !address <addr> !vprot <addr> !mapped_file <addr> Make sure you watch Defrag Tools Episode #1 for instructions on how to get the Debugging Tools for Windows and how to set the required environment variables for symbols and source code resolution.
Episode 22
07 January 2013 - WinDbg - Memory Kernel Mode
In this episode of Defrag Tools, Andrew Richards, Chad Beeder and Larry Larsen continue looking at the Debugging Tools for Windows (in particular WinDbg). WinDbg is a debugger that supports user mode debugging of a process, or kernel mode debugging of a computer. This installment goes over the commands used to show the memory used in a kernel mode debug session. We cover these commands: !vm !vm 1 !memusage 8 !poolused 2 !poolused 4 !poolfind <tag> !pool <addr> !pool <addr> 2 !pte Make sure you watch Defrag Tools Episode #1 for instructions on how to get the Debugging Tools for Windows and how to set the required environment variables for symbols and source code resolution.
Episode 23
14 January 2013 - Windows 8 SDK
In this episode of Defrag Tools, Andrew Richards and Larry Larsen upgrade the software we downloaded in Episode #1 to the Windows 8 (x86 &x64) and Windows RT (ARM) versions. Resources: Windows Software Development Kit (SDK) for Windows 8 Sysinternals USB3 Debugging Cable - Note, you must use a USB3 A-A cable designed for debugging, otherwise it will fry your box!
Episode 24
21 January 2013 - WinDbg - Critical Sections
In this episode of Defrag Tools, Andrew Richards, Chad Beeder and Larry Larsen continue looking at the Debugging Tools for Windows (in particular WinDbg). WinDbg is a debugger that supports user mode debugging of a process, or kernel mode debugging of a computer. This installment goes over the commands used to diagnose a Critical Section hang in a user mode application. We start with an overview of the four synchronization primitives and then delve deep in to temporary hangs, orphaned Critical Sections and deadlocks. We use these commands: ~*k ~*kv ~ ~~[TID]s !cs !cs <pointer> !locks Make sure you watch Defrag Tools Episode #1 and Defrag Tools Episode #23 for instructions on how to get the Debugging Tools for Windows and how to set the required environment variables for symbols and source code resolution.
Episode 25
28 January 2013 - WinDbg - Events
In this episode of Defrag Tools, Andrew Richards, Chad Beeder and Larry Larsen continue looking at the Debugging Tools for Windows (in particular WinDbg). WinDbg is a debugger that supports user mode debugging of a process, or kernel mode debugging of a computer. This installment goes over the commands used to diagnose an Event hang in a user mode application. We talk about single and multiple event hangs, automatic and manual events, waitable object handles and common design patterns that you will encounter. We use these commands: ~*k ~*kv ~ ~~[TID]s dp <addr> !handle !handle <handle> <mask> .dumpdebug !uniqstack !findstack <text> Make sure you watch Defrag Tools Episode #1 and Defrag Tools Episode #23 for instructions on how to get the Debugging Tools for Windows and how to set the required environment variables for symbol and source code resolution.
Episode 26
04 February 2013 - WinDbg - Semaphores, Mutexes and Timers
In this episode of Defrag Tools, Andrew Richards, Chad Beeder and Larry Larsen continue looking at the Debugging Tools for Windows (in particular WinDbg). WinDbg is a debugger that supports user mode debugging of a process, or kernel mode debugging of a computer. This installment goes over the commands used to diagnose Semaphores, Mutexes and (Waitable) Timers in a user mode application. For timers, we delve deep in to the kernel to gather more information about them. We use these commands: !handle !handle <handle> <mask> !object <name> !object <addr> !timer !timer <addr> ub @rip dt nt!_KTHREAD <addr> Make sure you watch Defrag Tools Episode #1 and Defrag Tools Episode #23 for instructions on how to get the Debugging Tools for Windows and how to set the required environment variables for symbol and source code resolution.
Episode 27
11 February 2013 - WinDbg - Configure Kernel Debugging
In this episode of Defrag Tools, Andrew Richards, Chad Beeder and Larry Larsen continue looking at the Debugging Tools for Windows (in particular WinDbg). WinDbg is a debugger that supports user mode debugging of a process, or kernel mode debugging of a computer.
Episode 28
18 February 2013 - WinDbg - Scheduling
In this episode of Defrag Tools, Andrew Richards, Chad Beeder and Larry Larsen continue looking at the Debugging Tools for Windows (in particular WinDbg). WinDbg is a debugger that supports user mode debugging of a process, or kernel mode debugging of a computer.
Episode 29
25 February 2013 - WinDbg - ETW Logging
In this episode of Defrag Tools, Andrew Richards, Chad Beeder and Larry Larsen continue looking at the Debugging Tools for Windows (in particular WinDbg). WinDbg is a debugger that supports user mode debugging of a process, or kernel mode debugging of a computer.
Episode 30
04 March 2013 - MCTS Windows Internals
In this episode of Defrag Tools, Andrew Richards, Chad Beeder and Larry Larsen review MCP exam 70-660 - MCTS Windows Internals.
Episode 31
11 March 2013 - ZoomIt
In this episode of Defrag Tools, Andrew Richards, Chad Beeder and Larry Larsen walk you through Sysinternals ZoomIt. ZoomIt is a screen zoom and annotation tool for technical presentations that include application demonstrations. ZoomIt runs unobtrusively in the tray and activates with customizable hotkeys to zoom in on an area of the screen, move around while zoomed, and draw on the zoomed image.
Episode 32
18 March 2013 - Desktops
In this episode of Defrag Tools, Andrew Richards, Chad Beeder and Larry Larsen walk you through Sysinternals Desktops. Desktops allows you to organize your applications on up to four virtual desktops. We go under the covers and show how Desktops fits in to the Session, Window Station and Desktop object/security model. ** I didn't do a great job explaining Sessions/Window Stations/Desktops -- If you want to know about those concepts in detail, I suggest you watch Sysinternals Primer: Gems instead.
Episode 33
25 March 2013 - CLR GC - Part 1
In this episode of Defrag Tools, Andrew Richards, Maoni Stephens and Larry Larsen walk you through the CLR Garbage Collector. Maoni is the Principal developer for the GC on the CLR team.
Episode 34
02 April 2013 - CLR GC - Part 2
In this episode of Defrag Tools, Andrew Richards, Maoni Stephens and Larry Larsen continue walking you through the CLR Garbage Collector. Maoni is the Principal developer for the GC on the CLR team.
Episode 35
08 April 2013 - CLR GC - Part 3
In this episode of Defrag Tools, Andrew Richards, Maoni Stephens and Larry Larsen continue walking you through the CLR Garbage Collector. Maoni is the Principal developer for the GC on the CLR team.
Episode 36
15 April 2013 - CLR GC - Part 4
In this episode of Defrag Tools, Andrew Richards, Maoni Stephens and Larry Larsen continue walking you through the CLR Garbage Collector - specifically PerfView. Maoni is the Principal developer for the GC on the CLR team.
Episode 37
22 April 2013 - JavaScript - Part 1
In this episode of Defrag Tools, Andrew Richards, Amanda Silver and Larry Larsen start walking you through the debugging of JavaScript Windows Store applications with Visual Studio. Amanda is a Principal developer for the JavaScript engine used in Internet Explorer, Windows Store applications and Visual Studio.
Episode 38
29 April 2013 - JavaScript - Part 2
In this episode of Defrag Tools, Andrew Richards, Amanda Silver and Larry Larsen continue walking you through the debugging of JavaScript Windows Store applications with Visual Studio. Amanda is a Principal developer for the JavaScript engine used in Internet Explorer, Windows Store applications and Visual Studio.
Episode 39
06 May 2013 - Windows Performance Toolkit
In this episode of Defrag Tools, Andrew Richards, Chad Beeder and Larry Larsen starting walking you through the Windows Performance Toolkit (WPT).
Episode 40
13 May 2013 - WPT - WPR & WPA
In this episode of Defrag Tools, Andrew Richards, Chad Beeder and Larry Larsen continue walking you through the Windows Performance Toolkit (WPT).
Episode 41
20 May 2013 - WPT - Command Line
In this episode of Defrag Tools, Andrew Richards, Chad Beeder and Larry Larsen continue walking you through the Windows Performance Toolkit (WPT). Example xPerf scripts.
Episode 42
27 May 2013 - WPT - CPU Analysis
In this episode of Defrag Tools, Andrew Richards, Chad Beeder and Larry Larsen continue walking you through the Windows Performance Toolkit (WPT). Example xPerf scripts.
Episode 43
03 June 2013 - WPT - Wait Analysis
In this episode of Defrag Tools, Andrew Richards, Chad Beeder and Larry Larsen continue walking you through the Windows Performance Toolkit (WPT). Example xPerf scripts.
Episode 44
17 June 2013 - WPT - DiskIO Analysis
In this episode of Defrag Tools, Andrew Richards, Chad Beeder and Larry Larsen continue walking you through the Windows Performance Toolkit (WPT). Example xPerf scripts.
Episode 45
24 June 2013 - WPT - File & Registry Analysis
In this episode of Defrag Tools, Andrew Richards, Chad Beeder and Larry Larsen continue walking you through the Windows Performance Toolkit (WPT). Example xPerf scripts.
Episode 46
08 July 2013 - WPT - Driver Analysis
In this episode of Defrag Tools, Andrew Richards, Chad Beeder and Larry Larsen continue walking you through the Windows Performance Toolkit (WPT). Example xPerf scripts.
Episode 47
15 July 2013 - WPT - MiniFilter Analysis
In this episode of Defrag Tools, Andrew Richards, Chad Beeder and Larry Larsen continue walking you through the Windows Performance Toolkit (WPT). Example xPerf scripts.
Episode 48
22 July 2013 - WPT - Memory Analysis - Pool
In this episode of Defrag Tools, Andrew Richards, Chad Beeder and Larry Larsen continue walking you through the Windows Performance Toolkit (WPT). This is part 1 of 3 episodes on memory usage/leaks. Example xPerf scripts.
Episode 49
29 July 2013 - WPT - Memory Analysis - VirtualAlloc
In this episode of Defrag Tools, Andrew Richards, Chad Beeder and Larry Larsen continue walking you through the Windows Performance Toolkit (WPT). This is part 2 of 3 episodes on memory usage/leaks. Example xPerf scripts.
Episode 50
05 August 2013 - WPT - Memory Analysis - Heap
In this episode of Defrag Tools, Andrew Richards, Chad Beeder and Larry Larsen continue walking you through the Windows Performance Toolkit (WPT). This is part 3 of 3 episodes on memory usage/leaks. Example xPerf scripts.
Episode 51
12 August 2013 - Support Diagnostics
In this two part series of Defrag Tools, Andrew Richards and Larry Larsen talk to Jeff Dailey, Director of diagnostics in Microsoft Support. In this episode, we cover the principals of data collection and analysis.
Episode 52
19 August 2013 - Microsoft Fix it Center Pro
In this two part series of Defrag Tools, Andrew Richards and Larry Larsen talk to Jeff Dailey, Director of diagnostics in Microsoft Support. In this episode, we talk about Microsoft Fix it Center Pro.
Episode 53
26 August 2013 - Crashes, Hangs and Slow Performance
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.
Episode 54
02 September 2013 - IE Favorites Crash
In this episode of Defrag Tools, Andrew Richards, Chad Beeder and Larry Larsen show you the analysis of a crash. The crash happens when Favorites is clicked in Internet Explorer. We show Andrew's debugging and troubleshooting steps to solve the issue.
Episode 55
09 September 2013 - Bugcheck 0xAB Crash
In this episode of Defrag Tools, Chad Beeder, Andrew Richards and Larry Larsen show you the analysis of a Bugcheck 0xAB (by C9'er David Grainger). We show Chad's debugging and troubleshooting steps to solve the issue.
Episode 56
16 September 2013 - Explorer Hang
In this episode of Defrag Tools, Andrew Richards, Chad Beeder and Larry Larsen show you the analysis of a hang. The hang happens in Explorer when Windows-E is pressed - the folder window never appears. We show Andrew's debugging steps to solve the issue.
Episode 57
23 September 2013 - New Job, New Systems, 2 Questions and 2 Crashes
In this episode of Defrag Tools, Andrew Richards, Chad Beeder and Larry Larsen talk about Andrew's new job, configuring new systems with SSDs and HDDs, answer two questions from a viewer (Barry), and debug two crashes. [So why is the audio weird in this episode? Well, Andrew accidently hit mute on his mic just before recording. Kaitlin came to the rescue and used the audio from Chad's mic, fixing the levels for hours - Thx Kaitlin]
Episode 58
30 September 2013 - Sysinternals Streams and Autoruns Example
In this episode of Defrag Tools, Andrew Richards, Chad Beeder and Larry Larsen talk about a Sysinternals Autoruns file from a viewer (Judy) for a slow booting system. We update Sysinternals and in doing so, we use Sysinternals Steams to show the (NTFS) alternate data stream used to save the Zone information of the download.
Episode 59
07 October 2013 - Larry Osterman
In this episode of Defrag Tools, Larry Osterman joins Andrew Richards and Chad Beeder to talk about lots of random stuff from his 29ys at Microsoft; including the old days, Windows Audio, Windows 8.1 UI, and much more.
Episode 60
14 October 2013 - Visual Studio 2013 - JavaScript - Just My Code
In this episode of Defrag Tools, Rob Paveza joins Andrew Richards and Larry Larsen to talk about Just My Code for JavaScript Windows Store Apps in Visual Studio 2013. We show how much easier debugging is with all of the JavaScript libraries (e.g. JQuery) filtered out.
Episode 61
21 October 2013 - Windows 8.1 - Disk Space, Sysinternals DU and RU
In this episode of Defrag Tools, Andrew Richards, Chad Beeder and Larry Larsen talk about Sysinternals Disk Usage and Sysinternals Registry Usage. These tools are used to determine the size of Folder and Registry trees. We provide advice on how to free up disk space so you can upgrade to Windows 8.1 on a low-disk space system.
Episode 62
28 October 2013 - Windows 8.1 - High DPI
In this episode of Defrag Tools, Chad Beeder, Andrew Richards and Larry Larsen talk about the High DPI support in Windows 8.1.
Episode 63
04 November 2013 - Windows 8.1 - SDK
In this episode of Defrag Tools, Andrew Richards, Chad Beeder and Larry Larsen walk you through the download of the Windows 8.1 SDK and the latest Sysinternals tools. We harvest the Debugging Tools for Windows, Windows Performance Toolkit, and Application Verifier files from the SDK. We also show some of the new WinDbg features.
Episode 64
10 November 2013 - Windows 8.1 - Store App Crash (c000027b)
In this episode of Defrag Tools, Andrew Richards, Chad Beeder and Larry Larsen walk you through a Windows Store Application crash dump. We show the Quality page of the Dev Dashboard and debug a dump with WinDbg.
Episode 65
18 November 2013 - Windows 8.1 - Jeffrey Richter - Windows Runtime via C#
In this episode of Defrag Tools, Jeffrey Richter joins Andrew Richards and Larry Larsen to talk about Windows Store Application development. We talk about all the books he's authored and what his company (Wintellect) is doing recently.
Episode 66
26 November 2013 - Windows 8.1 - Jeffrey Richter - Wintellect Package Explorer
In this episode of Defrag Tools, Jeffrey Richter joins Andrew Richards and Larry Larsen to talk about the Wintellect Package Explorer. This new tool, associated with the Windows Runtime for C# book, allows you to view the properties of Store apps installed on your system, and help you manage them.
Episode 67
02 December 2013 - Windows 8.1 - Background Task Hang
In this episode of Defrag Tools, Andrew Richards and Chad Beeder walk you through a common issues in Background Task applications. We use a Windows Store 8.1 app sample to show how missing code affects the process, and how the process can be reported as having an Application Hang due to non-responsiveness.
Episode 68
09 December 2013 - Windows 8.1 - HTTP Request Crash
In this episode of Defrag Tools, Andrew Richards and Chad Beeder walk you through a common issues in Windows Store applications that use HTTP. We use a Windows Store 8.1 app sample to show how a missing exception handler affects the stability of the process.
Episode 69
16 December 2013 - Windows 8.1 - XML Load Crash
In this episode of Defrag Tools, Andrew Richards and Chad Beeder walk you through a common issues in Windows Store applications that use XML. We use a Windows Store 8.1 app sample to show how missing code affects the stability of the process.
Episode 70
23 December 2013 - Windows 8.1 - Interop Crash
In this episode of Defrag Tools, Andrew Richards and Chad Beeder walk you through a common issues in Windows Store applications that use Interop. We use a Windows Store 8.1 app sample to show how missing code affects the stability of the process.
Episode 71
30 December 2013 - Message Analyzer - Part 1
In this episode of Defrag Tools, Paul Long joins Chad Beeder in this 3 part series on Message Analyzer.
Episode 72
06 January 2014 - Message Analyzer - Part 2
In this episode of Defrag Tools, Paul Long joins Chad Beeder in this 3 part series on Message Analyzer.
Episode 73
13 January 2014 - Message Analyzer - Part 3
In this episode of Defrag Tools, Paul Long joins Chad Beeder in this 3 part series on Message Analyzer.
Episode 74
20 January 2014 - Frame.GetNavigationState Crash
In this episode of Defrag Tools, Andrew Richards and Chad Beeder walk you through a common issue in Windows Store applications that use Frame.GetNavigationState. We use a Windows Store 8.1 app sample to show how using complex objects as a parameter in navigation can cause serialization to raise an exception.
Episode 75
27 January 2014 - Windows 8.1 - FileNotFound Crash
In this episode of Defrag Tools, Andrew Richards, Chad Beeder and Larry Larsen walk you through a common issue in Windows Store applications that use Files. We use a Windows Store 8.1 app sample to show how missing code affects the stability of the process.
Episode 76
03 February 2014 - Escalation Engineer
In this episode of Defrag Tools, Trey Nash and Jason Epperly join Chad Beeder to talk about their roles as Escalation Engineers in CSS.
Episode 77
10 February 2014 - WPT Example - CPU
In this episode of Defrag Tools, Trey Nash joins Chad Beeder to demonstrate how the Windows Performance Toolkit was used to solve a performance issue in a time sensitive application.
Episode 78
17 February 2014 - WPT Example - Disk
In this episode of Defrag Tools, Jason Epperly joins Chad Beeder to demonstrate how the Windows Performance Toolkit was used to solve a performance issue while logging in to a system.
Episode 79
24 February 2014 - Microsoft Consulting Services
In this episode of Defrag Tools, Chad Beeder is joined by Steve Thomas to talk about Steve's role as a consultant for Microsoft Consulting Services.
Episode 80
03 March 2014 - App-V
In this episode of Defrag Tools, Chad Beeder is joined by Steve Thomas to talk about Application Virtualization (App-V) troubleshooting techniques.
Episode 81
10 March 2014 - Aaron Margosis
In this episode of Defrag Tools, Andrew Richards and Chad Beeder are joined by Aaron Margosis to talk about the Sysinternals book he co-authored, and demos an Application Installation Recorder that leverages Process Monitor and PowerShell.
Episode 82
17 March 2014 - Performance Counters - Part 1
In this episode of Defrag Tools, Andrew Richards, Chad Beeder and Larry Larsen begin a multi-part series on how Performance Counters work and how to add them to an application. This episode focuses on the (statistical) counter types that determine how the (raw) data is reported.
Episode 83
24 March 2014 - Performance Counters - Part 2
In this episode of Defrag Tools, Andrew Richards and Chad Beeder continue a 3-part series on how Performance Counters work and how to add them to an application. This episode focuses on the XML manifest that you develop, that turns in to code when compiled with CTRPP.
Episode 84
31 March 2014 - Performance Counters - Part 3
In this episode of Defrag Tools, Andrew Richards and Chad Beeder continue a 3-part series on how Performance Counters work and how to add them to an application. This episode focuses on turning the XML manifest in to code (with CTRPP), and using the generated code in a sample application.
Episode 85
14 April 2014 - Sigcheck (plus: the Heartbleed bug)
In this episode of Defrag Tools, Chad Beeder and Larry Larsen discuss two topics: The Heartbleed bug, and the Sigcheck tool from Sysinternals.
Episode 86
21 April 2014 - Windows 8.1 Update
In this episode of Defrag Tools, Andrew Richards walks you through the download of the Windows 8.1 Update SDK, the Windows 8.1 Store App Samples, the latest Sysinternals tools, and the Wintellect Package Explorer. We harvest the Debugging Tools for Windows, Windows Performance Toolkit, and Application Verifier files from the SDK.
Episode 87
28 April 2014 - Symbol Folder Hierarchy - index2.txt
In this episode of Defrag Tools, Andrew Richards and Chad Beeder talk about how you can change the Symbol folder's hierarchy to be 2-Tier instead of 1-Tier - by adding an index2.txt file to the root.
Episode 88
05 May 2014 - Symbol Folder Tools
In this episode of Defrag Tools, Andrew Richards and Chad Beeder talk about 4 tools used to maintain your Symbol Store and Symbol Cache folders.
Episode 89
16 June 2014 - Sysinternals Strings, FindStr, !pde.ssz
In this episode of Defrag Tools, Chad Beeder and Andrew Richards use FindStr, Sysinternals Strings and !pde.ssz to perform string searches and filtering.
Episode 90
23 June 2014 - Scheduled Tasks
In this episode of Defrag Tools, Chad Beeder and Andrew Richards use the Scheduled Tasks MMC, Sysinternals Autoruns, at.exe, scdtasks.exe and PowerShell to manage the Task Scheduler.
Episode 91
30 June 2014 - Writing a Debugger Extension Part 1
In this episode of Defrag Tools, Andrew Richards and Chad Beeder start a new series on writing a Debugger Extension for the Debugging Tools for Windows. The series is based on a 3 part MSDN Magazine series that Andrew wrote back in early 2011.
Episode 92
07 July 2014 - Writing a Debugger Extension Part 2
In this episode of Defrag Tools, Andrew Richards and Chad Beeder continue a series on writing a Debugger Extension for the Debugging Tools for Windows. The series is based on a 3 part MSDN Magazine series that Andrew wrote back in early 2011.
Episode 93
14 July 2014 - Writing a Debugger Extension Part 3
In this episode of Defrag Tools, Andrew Richards and Chad Beeder continue a series on writing a Debugger Extension for the Debugging Tools for Windows. The series is based on a 3 part MSDN Magazine series that Andrew wrote back in early 2011.
Episode 94
22 July 2014 - Writing a Debugger Extension Part 4
In this episode of Defrag Tools, Andrew Richards and Chad Beeder continue a series on writing a Debugger Extension for the Debugging Tools for Windows. The series is based on a 3 part MSDN Magazine series that Andrew wrote back in early 2011.
Episode 100
- Episode 100!!! - Campus Tour
This week we break out of the Channel 9 studios and visit the offices of Chad Beeder and Andrew Richards, and talk about some of the history of Buildings 22 and 26.
Episode 101
04 August 2014 - Writing a Debugger Extension Part 5
In this episode of Defrag Tools, Andrew Richards and Chad Beeder continue a series on writing a Debugger Extension for the Debugging Tools for Windows. The series is based on a 3 part MSDN Magazine series that Andrew wrote back in early 2011.
Episode 102
11 August 2014 - Writing a Debugger Extension Part 6
In this episode of Defrag Tools, Andrew Richards and Chad Beeder continue a series on writing a Debugger Extension for the Debugging Tools for Windows. The series is based on a 3 part MSDN Magazine series that Andrew wrote back in early 2011.
Episode 103
19 August 2014 - Writing a Debugger Extension Part 7
In this episode of Defrag Tools, Andrew Richards and Chad Beeder continue a series on writing a Debugger Extension for the Debugging Tools for Windows. The series is based on a 3 part MSDN Magazine series that Andrew wrote back in early 2011.
Episode 104
02 September 2014 - Writing a Debugger Extension Part 8
In this episode of Defrag Tools, Andrew Richards and Chad Beeder continue a series on writing a Debugger Extension for the Debugging Tools for Windows. The series is based on a 3 part MSDN Magazine series that Andrew wrote back in early 2011.
Episode 105
08 September 2014 - Writing a Debugger Extension Part 9
In this episode of Defrag Tools, Andrew Richards and Chad Beeder finish a series on writing a Debugger Extension for the Debugging Tools for Windows. The series is based on a 3 part MSDN Magazine series that Andrew wrote back in early 2011.
Episode 106
15 September 2014 - Larry Osterman - 30 Years - Part 1
In a two part special for Defrag Tools, Larry Osterman joins Larry Larsen, Andrew Richards and Chad Beeder to celebrate Larry's 30 years at Microsoft. We travel to the Microsoft Archives building to reminisce over a selection of products that Microsoft has produced over Larry's 30 year career.
Episode 107
22 September 2014 - Larry Osterman - 30 Years - Part 2
In this second part of a two part special for Defrag Tools, Larry Osterman joins Larry Larsen, Andrew Richards and Chad Beeder to celebrate Larry's 30 years at Microsoft. We continue looking around the Microsoft Archives building, reminiscing over a selection of products that Microsoft has produced over Larry's 30 year career.
Episode 108
29 September 2014 - Sysinternals SysMon - Mark Russinovich
Mark Russinovich and Thomas Garnier join Andrew Richards in this episode of Defrag Tools. We talk about their new tool - Sysinternals System Monitor. System Monitor (Sysmon) is a Windows system service and device driver that, once installed on a system, remains resident across system reboots to monitor and log system activity to the Windows event log. It provides detailed information about process creations, network connections, and changes to file creation time.
Episode 109
06 October 2014 - Writing a CLR Debugger Extension Part 1
In this episode of Defrag Tools, Andrew Richards starts a two part series on writing a Debugger Extension in C# for the Debugging Tools for Windows. The series follows on from the recent 9 part series on writing a Debugger Extension in C++. The C# code utilizes the Microsoft.Diagnostics.Runtime (CLRMD) and DllExports packages, available on NuGet.
Episode 110
13 October 2014 - Writing a CLR Debugger Extension Part 2
In this episode of Defrag Tools, Andrew Richards finishes a two part series on writing a Debugger Extension in C# for the Debugging Tools for Windows. The series follows on from the recent 9 part series on writing a Debugger Extension in C++. The C# code utilizes the Microsoft.Diagnostics.Runtime (CLRMD) and DllExports packages, available on NuGet.
Episode 111
20 October 2014 - Programming Windows Store Apps with HTML, CSS and JavaScript Part 1
In this of Defrag Tools, Kraig Brockschmidt joins Andrew Richards and Chad Beeder for two episodes to talk about Windows Store Application development using HTML, CSS and JavaScript. Be sure to download the free ebook!
Episode 112
27 October 2014 - Programming Windows Store Apps with HTML, CSS and JavaScript Part 2
In this of Defrag Tools, Kraig Brockschmidt joins Andrew Richards and Chad Beeder for a second episode to talk about Windows Store Application development using HTML, CSS and JavaScript. Be sure to download the free ebook!
Episode 113
03 November 2014 - PerfView Part 1
In this episode of Defrag Tools, Vance Morrison joins Andrew Richards and Chad Beeder to discuss his performance analysis tool, PerfView. In part 1 of this series, we demonstrate downloading and installing the tool, and collecting traces.
Episode 114
10 November 2014 - PerfView Part 2
In this episode of Defrag Tools, Vance Morrison joins Andrew Richards and Chad Beeder to discuss his performance analysis tool, PerfView. In part 2 of this series, we review a trace for CPU issues.
Episode 115
17 November 2014 - PerfView Part 3
In this episode of Defrag Tools, Vance Morrison joins Andrew Richards and Chad Beeder to discuss his performance analysis tool, PerfView. In part 3 of this series, we focus on looking at memory issues.
Episode 116
24 November 2014 - PerfView Part 4
In this episode of Defrag Tools, Vance Morrison joins Andrew Richards and Chad Beeder to discuss his performance analysis tool, PerfView. In part 4 of this series, we focus on using PerfView as a diagnostics tool.
Episode 117
01 December 2014 - PerfView Part 5
In this episode of Defrag Tools, Vance Morrison joins Andrew Richards and Chad Beeder to discuss his performance analysis tool, PerfView. In part 5 of this series, we focus on using PerfView as a diagnostics tool.
Episode 118
08 December 2014 - PerfView Part 6
In this episode of Defrag Tools, Vance Morrison joins Andrew Richards and Chad Beeder to discuss his performance analysis tool, PerfView. In part 6 of this series, we show how easy it is to add ETW events to your applications, and how these events can be seen in PerfView.
Episode 119
15 December 2014 - Windows Management Instrumentation
In this episode of Defrag Tools, Andrew Richards and Chad Beeder to discuss Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI).
Episode 120
22 December 2014 - PerfView Part 7
In this episode of Defrag Tools, Vance Morrison joins Andrew Richards and Chad Beeder to discuss his performance analysis tool, PerfView. In part 7 of this series, we show how easy it is to analyze ETW events with PerfView.
Episode 121
29 December 2014 - DebugDiag Part 1
In this episode of Defrag Tools, Wade Mascia joins Andrew Richards and Chad Beeder to discuss his debugging analysis tool, DebugDiag. In part 1 of this 4 part series, we show the basic features of DebugDiag.
Episode 122
05 January 2015 - DebugDiag Part 2
In this episode of Defrag Tools, Wade Mascia joins Andrew Richards and Chad Beeder to discuss his debugging analysis tool, DebugDiag. In part 2 of this 4 part series, we continue delving in to the features of DebugDiag.
Episode 123
12 January 2014 - DebugDiag Part 3
In this episode of Defrag Tools, Wade Mascia joins Andrew Richards and Chad Beeder to discuss the debugging analysis tool, DebugDiag. In part 3 of this 4 part series, we continue delving in to the features of DebugDiag.
Episode 124
19 January 2015 - DebugDiag Part 4
In this episode of Defrag Tools, Wade Mascia joins Andrew Richards and Chad Beeder to discuss the debugging analysis tool, DebugDiag. In part 4 of this 4 part series, we continue delving in to the features of DebugDiag.
Episode 125
26 January 2015 - PerfView - Part 8
In this episode of Defrag Tools, Vance Morrison joins Andrew Richards and Chad Beeder to discuss his performance analysis tool, PerfView. In part 8 of this series, we show how to analyze the GC with PerfView.
Episode 126
23 February 2015 - Internet Explorer F12 Developer Tools - Part 1
In this episode of Defrag Tools, Andy Sterland joins Chad Beeder to discuss the IE F12 Developer Tools, including some of the new features available in the Windows 10 Tech Preview.
Episode 127
02 March 2015 - Internet Explorer F12 Developer Tools - Part 2
In this episode of Defrag Tools, David Stephens joins Andrew Richards to discuss the IE F12 Console, including some of the new features available in the Windows 10 Tech Preview.
Episode 128
16 March 2015 - Networking - Part 1
In the next two episodes of Defrag Tools, Andrew Richards and Chad Beeder discuss Networking. We look at various inbox tools, including ipconfig, route, netstat, arp, nslookup, tracert, ping, psping, net and netsh.
Episode 129
23 March 2015 - Networking - Part 2
In this episode of Defrag Tools, Andrew Richards and Chad Beeder continue to discuss Networking. We look at more inbox tools (netsh, tracert, ping, psping, net) and talk about Receive-Side Scaling (RSS), TCP Chimney Offload and the TCP Receive Window.
Episode 130
30 March 2015 - Services
In this episode of Defrag Tools, Andrew Richards and Chad Beeder discuss services in Windows. We look at several tools for managing services, and discuss how they are implemented.
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