Windows 10 Task Manager ‘% CPU’ skew – A Tale of Two Metrics
Task Manager numbers are inaccurate and display different values between the details and performance tabs
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How to collect a boot trace on Windows 10 using xbootmgr
Sometimes in support you’ll be asked to collect a boot trace to help troubleshoot slow boot or slow logon scenarios. The symptoms are a long […]
Windows 10 20H2 boot trace – dropped events
TLDR: At time of writing, Windows 10 20H2 has a bug where the default buffer allocations in boot tracing are inadequate to capture the data […]
What’s using your video RAM? Xbox Game Services naturally…
Applies to: Windows 10, Gamers One of my routines when installing Windows 10 fresh (or updating builds when it wipes my preferences) is to […]
Microsft Edge – “This site is trying to open” dialog box hell – Fix
Applies to: Edge I was downloading mods to start up a game of Witcher 3 and every time I tried to download a mod to […]
Why does HyperX NGenuity need 1.16 GB for my headset?!
I was looking at space used on my C drive in Windows 10 (just upgraded to 2004 build, yay!) and found something that seemed off to me.Now, it’s not unusual to …
How to get a user dump and immediate kernel dump in Windows on application crash.
Scenario – Application crashes randomly. Dump attempts have been spotty and point to a potential kernel issue. You want a dump of the process + a dump of the Windows kernel to examine.
[Guest blog] What I Learnt While Not Remembering: Technology and its use in Traumatic Brain Injury
I wrote a post for Microsoft’s Humans of IT tech community on my experiences with traumatic brain injury and working in technology. https://web.archive.org/web/20200509160740/https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/humans-of-it-blog/guest-blog-what-i-learnt-while-not-remembering-technology-and/ba-p/1343228 Hope […]
Solution: Origin keeps ‘alt-tab’ing in front of my game!
Problem: You are gaming/typing/using your computer and your foreground window in Windows loses focus. Origin game client may appear briefly in front of your window, […]
Let me tell you about John
John needs your thoughts as he fights cancer.