Tag Archive for 'windows'

How to check if your computer is connecting to INTERNET without your acknowledge?

Digital inspiration published a useful tip to check if your computer is connecting to the INTERNET without your knowledge.  Of course in most case a firewall properly configured should notify any unexpected connection to the INTERNET. But in some special case, the method proposed by Digital inspiration is useful to track what’s going on in [...]

Ubuntu Linux- Windows comparison

APC published a very good article that compares Ubuntu to Windows when executing various tasks (mp3 encoding, Web browsing, Media playback, etc). Ubuntu is very good for most of the task sbut remains behing windows for some of them like mp3 encoding and Webcam management. The complete Ubuntu rating is list below: First impressions: Pass [...]

Dr Watson debugger round up

Today, I wanted to deactivate Dr Watson on my PC (Windows XP-SP2) and it tooks me some time to find the relevant information to do that. The interesting thing is that, I found some very useful information about the debugger: Description of the Dr. Watson for Windows (Drwtsn32.exe) Tool: This article describes the Dr. Watson [...]

SVCHOST.EXE Demystified

On windows XP, the process SVCHOST.EXE is a mystery for most people. If you check your task manager, you may have several instances of this process running. On my XP home edition I have actually 7 of this processes. Microsoft describes SVCHOST.EXE on this document by the following sentences: “At startup, Svchost.exe checks the services part of [...]

Resources to help create a crash dump with ADPlus

How to use ADPlus to troubleshoot “hangs” and “crashes” : Microsoft Technet document describing how to use ADPlus Application debugging in a production environment : Pdf book downloadable from Microsoft Production Debugging for .NET Framework Applications:  Pdf book  more dedicated to .Net  debuggging