Video freezes after a few frames in both Chrome and Firefox: a troubleshooting post-mortem
Intermittently, video playback would hang on my Dell XPS 16 9640 laptop. Videos didn’t play at all, or …
Windows Internals
Outlook hangs at startup: debugging it together with AI
On my laptop Outlook (Classic) started to hang. The window would freeze and I couldn’t even click the …
Get registry key name from a handle
Sometimes it can be useful to determine what registry key belongs to a registry key handle. And exampling is …
Invalid file handle when trying to delete a file
When I was trying to delete a folder from my local harddrive (cygwin64 in my case) I got the following error …
Replacing WFP Protected files
On Windows 2000, XP and Server 2003 a mechanism called Windows File Protection (WFP) is used to protect system …
My Network Places Internals
I am using a PowerShell script to copy some elements of from the users old profile location to a new location. …
DefaultPassword Dumper
Just a small post today: a small commandline utility that reads the “DefaultPassword” LSA secret. …
Installing Dell Wireless 5530 HSPA Mini PCI
EDIT: See my followup article to learn how to reverse driver_auth.exe, decrypt and encrypt …
Programmatically determine if we run server core
If you want to check if you are running on a Server Core edition of Windows you can use the GetProductInfo …
Windows 2003 Server Standard memory patch
So a few days ago I got new memory for a development box - an upgrade from 4 to 6 GiB (later on even 8 GiB). …