logging

Describes an issue in a Hyper-V guest operating system of Windows Server 2008 R2 or of Windows 7 in which the VDS Basic Provider event ID 1 is logged. More...

Event Tracing for LDAP in Windows Vista/2008 Link Removed

This article talks about how to enable firewall logging on a standalone machine. Link Removed

Consider the following scenario: You have a computer running Windows 7 or Windows Server 2008 R2. An application is installed that uses the Microsoft Windows Installer 4.0 or 5.0 for installation and servicing on Windows. You uninstall the application.... Link Removed

Fixes an issue in which the same WHEA error is logged again even though no uncorrectable error has occurred on a WHEA-enabled computer. This issue occurs when the computer is running Windows 7 or Windows Server 2008 R2. More...

Describes a behavior in which event ID 1530 is logged in the Application log on a Windows 7 or Windows Vista-based computer. More...

Read here, how to correctly log on and off USB storage devices and activate the write cache under Windows 7. More...

Improves the logging capabilities of the Storport.sys driver to troubleshoot poor disk I/O performance due to faulty or underperforming drivers in Windows Server 2008 R2. More...

Join Wade and Steve each week as they cover the Windows Azure Platform. You can follow and interact with the show at Link Removed. In this episode, Steve and Wade discuss logging and tracing on Windows Azure using both blobs and tables. Steve explains his Printf("HERE") in the Cloud approach for...

Microsoft tech troubleshooter extraordinaire Gov Maharaj and I help walk you through troubleshooting solutions to your tech support problems. If you have a problem you want to send us, you can use the Problem Step Recorder in Windows 7 (see the show for details on how) and send us the zip file...

Sorry for the less but optimal title for this, but I can't describe it any better. The root of the issue is that i am running Pisg. a stats generator for mIRC on my windows 7 machine. At the beginning I ran the program that parses the files manually and uploaded the files manually. But in the...

Windows Explorer on my wife's computer (running W7 Home Premium and completely up to date with Windows Updates) takes 4 or 5 minutes to finish running right after a power-up boot. The hourglass icon seems to sit there forever, but the folders and files finally appear. Later, when running an...

I am having an issue with colors in my applications changing. Every time I log off and back on or reboot certain parts of application windows have changed colors. For example, the background of the Firefox Bookmarks sidebar. Sometimes the background is light grayish and other times it has a...

Hi all, So to make a long story short, I've gone over my 60GB internet usage limit quite a lot over the past year or so. Uploads and downloads both count towards usage. When I looked at the monthly usage history, I was surprised to find that there are several months, including the current one...

Hi all... Is there any utility that can log a wireless network for dropped connections over a period of a few days? I need something that can show me the history of connections that I can compare against the windows application log - my friend thinks the network is dropping out sometimes which...

I have two DLLs named ws2_32.dll and wsock32.dll. I also have an application that i want to utalize these two dlls rather then the ones in system32 but it apears that it doesn't. I ran a dependency scanner and found that in fact the application does load these two DLLs rather then the ones in...

Hi folks, Question here, First I have System Restore disabled so that can't be the source of the issue. It seems that my drive space (the partition Win 7 is on) keeps getting smaller even though I haven't added any programs or large amounts of data. I'm not talking a great deal of space just 200...

Just took an update to "JAVA" today. Now every move I make on the Internet I get a warning "Java wants to run this program ALLOW, NOT ALLOW. If I hit the Don't Allow everything works same as usual. Anybody know what this is about? I've got a new console in tools: Home User Directory. I don't...