Video: The Case of the Unexplained...

Mark Russinovich the Master Guru of Windows Troubleshooting from Microsoft talks about solving the unsolvable on your system done step-by-step with real case studies he shows how to solve Windows Crashes, Process Hangs, Security Vulnerability's, DLL Conflicts, Permissions Problems, Registry Misconfiguration`s, Network Hangs and File System Issues

Video Here: http://www.microsoft.com/emea/spotlight/sessionh.aspx?videoid=722
 
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Nice video, never realised that PE could be so useful. Thanks!
 

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Process Explorer is a very valuable tool for t-shooting, as are a few other of the SysInternals tools, I couldn't do without them these days.
It's too bad that most of the newbies that come here looking for help, probably don't know how to use these tools properly or they could make our job of figuring out their problems much easier...:(

But then again...that's why they're called Newbies/n00b's/@$#!^&'s...;)
(LOL)

But even with all the tools available, Windoze is just so darn complex that it's still sometimes impossible for an x-pert type person to find out just what the HE(!!) went wrong, so all you noobs out there take heart in that.
 

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    Intel E6750 Core 2 Duo
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    Asus Commando MoBo (P965/ICH8R)
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    4G's Crucial Ballistix Tracer DDR2 PC26400 RAM
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Heh - I am not a n00b by any means - and there are many functions of PE and ways that it can be used that *I* don't know....

And I know a lot more than the n00bs do....

So, yeah, that is to be expected.

The part I hate is that a lot of n00bs just want to use the computer as a toy, instead of realizing that a computer is a machine - like a car - and it needs to be maintained, just like a car, on a regular schedule.
 

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    Intel Core i7 965 EE @ 3.6 GHz
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    eVGA X58 Classified 3 (141-GT-E770-A1)
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    3 * Mushkin 998981 Redline Enhanced triple channel DDR3 4 GB CL7 DDR3 1600 MHz (PC3-12800)
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    eVGA GeForce GTX 970 SSC ACX 2.0 (04G-P4-3979-KB)
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    Realtek HD Audio (onboard)
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    2 * Lenovo LT2323pwA Widescreeen
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    2 * 1920 x 1080
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    SanDisk Ultra SDSSDHII-960G-G25 960 GB SATA III SSD (System) Crucial MX100 CT256MX100SSD1 256GB SATA III SSD (User Tree) 2 * Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 ST31000528AS 1TB 7200 RPM SATA II Mech. HD Seagate ST1500DL001-9VT15L Barracuda 7200.12 1.5 TB S
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    Thermaltake Black Widow TX TR2 850W 80+ Bronze Semi-Mod ATX
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    Corsair H100 (CPU, dual 140 mm fans on radiator) + Air (2 *
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    Logitech MX Master (shared)
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    Logitech G15 (gen 2)
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    AT&T Lightspeed Gigabit duplex
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    Sabayon Linux (current, weekly updates, 5.1.x kernel)
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    Lenovo ThinkPad E545
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    AMD A6-5350M APU
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    Lenovo
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    8 GB
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    Conextant 20671 SmartAudio HD
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    Lenovo 15" Matte
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    Lenovo
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    AT&T LightSpeed Gigabit Duplex
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