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Friday, March 21, 2008 1:47 AM

Wanted: Windows Internals subject matter experts

Microsoft is looking for five Windows Internals subject matter experts to come work on a very special five to eight day project on the Redmond campus during the month of May 2008. Candidates must have good communications skills, be non Microsoft employees,
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Tuesday, March 18, 2008 2:09 PM

How to find the owner of a Named Pipe

This is a follow-up on the LPC hang blog . The same hang troubleshooting techniques apply to this, but when a named pipe is involved you’ll have to use a slightly different method to following the chain from a client application to the server application.
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Friday, September 14, 2007 8:38 PM

LPC CASE2 – When things are not rosy

Hello, this is Roy again. In this case we will discuss a scenario where tracing a hung client thread is not possible through LPC data structures and extensions. We would rather use hints from the LPC message sent about the operation that was taking place
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Thursday, July 26, 2007 12:56 PM

LPC (Local procedure calls) Part 1 architecture

Hello, my name is Roy. I’m an Escalation Engineer in the CPR platforms team. I’ll be doing a four part series on LPC over the coming month. You’re sure to find this interesting. That being said let’s get started. What is LPC? LPC (Local Inter-Process
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Thursday, July 05, 2007 4:04 PM

Desktop Heap, part 2

Matthew here again – I want to provide some follow-up information on desktop heap . In the first post I didn’t discuss the size of desktop heap related memory ranges on 64-bit Windows, 3GB, or Vista. So without further ado, here are the relevant sizes
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Friday, June 15, 2007 2:57 PM

This button doesn’t do anything!

Hello - Matthew here again. Today I'll be discussing in detail hang scenario #1 that Tate first mentioned a few blogs posts ago . From a debugging perspective, in an ideal world an application would always provide some kind of feedback when a failure
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Friday, June 15, 2007 12:30 PM

Hung Window?, No Source?, No problem!! Part 2

Written by Jeff Dailey Hello, my name is Jeff, I’m a escalation engineer on the Microsoft CPR (critical problem resolution) platforms team. This blog entry is part 2 of my Hung Window?, No source?, No problem!! Part 1 blog . In this lab we will be debugging
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Wednesday, June 13, 2007 6:20 PM

Hung Window?, No source?, No problem!! Part 1

Written by Jeff Dailey Hello, my name is Jeff, I’m a escalation engineer on the Microsoft CPR Platforms team. This blog entry is a follow on for how to detect a hung window . This process and training lab is right out of our CPR Training curriculum. In
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Tuesday, May 29, 2007 8:32 PM

Detecting and automatically dumping hung GUI based windows applications..

Written by Jeff Dailey My name is Jeff, I’m an Escalation Engineer on CPR Platforms team. Following Tate’s blog on scoping hangs I’d like discus a common category of hangs and some creative ways to track them down. I will be providing a couple of labs
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