A friend of mine, Roberto Farah, has started blogging ! I'm thrilled because he's super hard-core and his blog focuses on really cool tricks and scripts with the Debugging Tools for Windows (AKA WinDBG). If you want to see how a master builds reusable Read More...

Vista is quite nice in keeping you from running too many things at elevated rights so you don't get into trouble. Where things breakdown are when you want to start a particular process with elevated rights from a command line. The RUNAS program does not Read More...

Why is it that computer manufacturers totally insist on slapping thousand of memory sucking craplets on their computers? I bought a Lenovo ThinkPad X60 Tablet , and was agog at the amount of stuff in the default install. There were nearly more entries Read More...

As much as anyone, I really appreciate the effort that Microsoft put help end users to find resolutions to their crashes. However, after debugging a crashing application today, I got a little tired of looking at the spinning bar and itching for the Debug Read More...

When you run MSVSMON.EXE on Vista, do you get the dreaded message indicating that you need to set the firewall, but when you do, MSVSMON.EXE errors out with an Incorrect Function message? After much struggle, I finally found the trick to remote debugging Read More...