In het Uitzicht van Vensters, kunnen de gebruikers uitgebreid hebben Het Rapport van de Gezondheid van het systeem geproduceerd voor hen in het helpen prestaties en betrouwbaarheidskwesties op hun PC problemen oplossen of te zien hoe in het algemeen gezond hun PC is. Voor de gemiddelde gebruiker, zal dit waarschijnlijk om het even wat niet betekenen. Maar voor me, ben ik het type van gebruiker dat werkelijk van houdt hebbend de capaciteit om rapporten te creëren die me over mijn PC vertellen zodat ik was werkelijk opgewekt om deze capaciteit in het Uitzicht van Vensters te vinden.

Vanavond dat ik heb beslist om een rapport voor het eerst te produceren over mijn hoofdDesktopPC en te zien wat het zegt. Om een gezondheid van het Systeem te hebben produceerde het Rapport:

1. Het open Menu van het Begin.
2. Klik op „Computer met de rechtermuisknop“ en klik „Eigenschappen“.
3. In het venster van de Eigenschappen van het Systeem, klik op uw classificatie van de Index van de Ervaring van Vensters.
4. In het de Informatie van Prestaties en venster van Hulpmiddelen, onder „Taken“ in linkeropties klikt de ruit „Geavanceerde Hulpmiddelen“.
5. Onder het Geavanceerde venster van Hulpmiddelen kies „een rapport van de systeemgezondheid“ bij de bodem produceer.

Het rapport produceert na ongeveer 60 seconden van het testen. Hier is mijn geproduceerd Rapport I van de Gezondheid van het Systeem vanavond:

Aangezien u kunt zien, worden om het even welke soort fouten of waarschuwingen voor uw systeem getoond eerst bij de bovenkant van het rapport. U kunt van mijn rapport zien, is mijn Printer van PK Photosmart C5100 gehandicapt gevend een fout. Dit is omdat ik onlangs mijn PK Photosmart C5100 van wordt verbonden met mijn PC via USB schakelde aan het zijn een netwerkprinter. Ik kan dit negeren

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Vandaag, Inkeping verteld u sommige ongeveer updates aan de hulpmiddelen in het Pak van de Optimalisering van de Desktop van Microsoft (MDOP) van Barcelona, Spanje bij het Forum van IT TechEd. I recently had a chance to give one of the components of MDOP - the Microsoft Diagnostic and Recovery Toolset (DaRT) 6.0 - a try. DaRT is an excellent set of tools for IT Professionals to troubleshoot unresponsive PCs and removing viruses and malware off infected PCs in their environment. DaRT 6.0 also now has the ability for IT Professionals to conduct offline removal of malware and viruses from infected PCs.

The first thing I noticed when I started using DaRT is that it provides two options to the IT Professional: a way to analyze crash files from unresponsive PCs through the Crash Analysis Wizard, and a way to create a startup disc with the necessary tools in fixing an unresponsive PC that is unable to boot into Windows called ERD Commander.

I first took a look at the Crash Analysis Wizard.

The Crash Analysis Wizard allows an IT Professional to take a crash dump file (*.dmp files associated with a system crash) and analyze it and get important bits of information that could help figure out why a PC is crashing. I have an old .dmp file from a crash a long time ago I dug up to run through the Crash Analysis Wizard. The Crash Analysis Wizard requires the Microsoft Debugging Tools for Windows as a prerequisite so before proceeding in

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Today, Nick told you about some updates to the tools in the Microsoft Desktop Optimization Pack (MDOP) from Barcelona, Spain at TechEd IT Forum. I recently had a chance to give one of the components of MDOP - the Microsoft Diagnostic and Recovery Toolset Read More......(read more)

I recently received the following via email. I responded, but never heard back. Hopefully the information will be of use to others...

Hi, Found your name on the web when I was looking at some stuff on slashdot and I thought maybe you might have a moment to point me in the right direction.
I have a custom app which I have zero access to in terms of the developer. When the app was run on new hardware, a few users would periodically get a bizarre error, but never on their old hardware. Main difference seems to be core 2 duo on the new laptops.
Anyway, this error causes a total reset of the internal windows database system used by the app and then there's an error in msvcr80.dll. Is there a way I can tell from the data below what routine went bad in that module? I could at least then tell the guy who guards the gates to tell the developer a little bit more. At this point the "guard" is convinced it is just because the dll is not the latest version. I think it is probably not that simple.

[app].exe signature
Appname [app].exe App. Ver. 0.0.0.0
Mod Name: msvcr80.dll
Mod Ver: 8.0.50215.44
Offsett: 000161fd

Error report contents
Exception info:
Code 0x0000005
Flag 0x00000000
Record 0x000000000000000
Address: 0x000000007C3861fd

I responded with the following:

It does appear that the problem may lie in the version of MSVCR80.DLL you referenced. At least, getting this to an appropriate version

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(TROUBLESHOOTING) It has been reported that Dreamweaver 8.0 might crash or freeze on some Windows Vista systems while browsing for files. This is caused by Office Groove that bundled with Office 2007 Ultimiate. To resolve this, you simply need to uninstall MS Office Groove. According to Adobe’s website, this issue will be resolved in the next Dreamweaver release (Spring, 2007) since Dreamweaver 8 was released long before the debut of Windows Vista and Office 2007.
Here’s a complete instruction on how to uninstall Office Groove 2007 component within Windows Vista:

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Previously (here and here), I've written about isolating shared services so that they run in their own process, with a specific focus on the Windows Update Automatic Updates Service (wuauserv) that typically runs in the NETSVCS SVCHOST.EXE instance. One thing that can be done once this is accomplished is to lower the priority of the process so that when the service winds up consuming 100% of the CPU, the system doesn't become unresponsive.

Since we're dealing with a service, setting the priority of such a SVCHOST.EXE process can become problematic - the service may already be running, or, because it is a service, it is not started as non-service processes are, so one is not able to use START / [LOW NORMAL HIGH REALTIME ABOVENORMAL BELOWNORMAL] to impose a priority when the process starts. One can use a utility like Task Manager or Process Explorer to set the priority of a process on an ad hoc basis, but when the service restarts or the system reboots one has to remember to set the priority again.

Though not an ideal solution the following scripts (VBS using WMI, and PowerShell) can be used to set the priority of the SVCHOST.EXE instance hosting the isolated Windows Update Automatic Updates Service service to "below normal". Note that no check is done to ensure that the SVCHOST.EXE instance is only hosting one service - if wuauserv is found to be a service inside of the process, the priority is

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