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How to open and search extremely large text log files

February 12, 2021 by Wayne Small Leave a Comment

I had a situation today when working with our team, where our ConnectWise server had something go wrong overnight following an upgrade.  Long story short, it filled up the disk space on the C: drive and caused things to come to a screaming halt before we woke up this morning!  We cleared out some disk space by removing other files first up (note always leave SOMETHING … [Read more...]

Meet Process Explorer–Task Manager on Steroids

October 31, 2017 by Wayne Small Leave a Comment

I often use task manager and resource manager to get a better understanding of what is going on with the CPU and memory usage of a given EXE.  However there is something better and that is Process Explorer.  Process Explorer gives you far more detailed information around what is going on with a computer than either of those aforementioned tools. Below you can see a … [Read more...]

How can I see what a specific program is doing to my computer?

October 30, 2017 by Wayne Small Leave a Comment

Often when investigating a problem, we need to see what a specific program is doing to the machine, or the registry, or accessing files etc.  Process Monitor (also known as Procmon) is an awesome tool to be used for this. Procmon is a small exe file that you can download and run on a machine and it will show you as below, what every single exe is doing, it’s registry … [Read more...]

What is using all my RAM?

October 28, 2017 by Wayne Small 1 Comment

Have you ever had the situation where memory is disappearing and you don’t know where it is being used?  Which program is using the memory, and is it paged out to disk or in RAM?  That’s where RAMMAP comes in.  It’s a great utility from the Sysinternals Team at Microsoft.  Here’s an example of how I’ve used RAMMAP to diagnose things. Below you see a system … [Read more...]

How can I figure out those error codes?

October 27, 2017 by Wayne Small 1 Comment

You see it all over the place, in text based logs, windows event logs, everywhere.  I’m talking about error codes such as 0x8007005.  But what do they really mean and how can I find out more about them? You could try Google of course, but that might give you a heap or misdirected answers that don’t apply to your situation.  Instead, let’s find out more about what the error … [Read more...]

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