Process Explorer: Private Bytes vs Working Set Explained
The ticket said the Citrix session host was sluggish around 4 PM every weekday. Twenty minutes with Process Explorer running and a baseline export from the day before…
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Tracing Windows Boot and Service Init with Sysinternals
After the third “slow login” ticket in a week from one of our managed customers, I went back to Sysinternals boot logging because nothing else was going to give me wha…
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Using Autoruns to Audit Every Windows Autostart Location
During a quarterly security review for a client running a 200-seat Windows environment, we found a DLL registered under HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersi…
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AdExplorer: Browsing and Snapshotting Active Directory Offline
Three service accounts disabled in production. No change ticket. No record of who did it or when. The helpdesk was fielding calls for forty minutes before we traced th…
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