Comments on: Mysterious Windows Vista hang explained http://www.itwriting.com/blog/62-mysterious-windows-vista-hang-explained.html Tech writing blog Fri, 19 Mar 2010 05:25:17 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Yuhong Bao http://www.itwriting.com/blog/62-mysterious-windows-vista-hang-explained.html/comment-page-1#comment-119414 Yuhong Bao Tue, 20 Jan 2009 01:56:20 +0000 http://www.itwriting.com/blog/?p=62#comment-119414 "“prettification” or “pettification”?" prettification "Attempting to take control of my own experience is nigh on impossible. I suppose I will have to face the fact that Microsoft is intent on dumbing down the system to bolster their ability to control everything the user has access to." That is a separate matter not discussed here. "If you are really tech-savvy, you do what Russinovich did, but it’s not trivial to do so." But you don't actually have to use WinDbg to do what Russinovich did. You can use Process Explorer to do the same thing. You setup symbols correctly (I recommend using the MS symbol server), then look in the threads tab of the properties of a process. You will get a list of threads, select a thread and click Stack to get a stack just like the one you get when you use WinDbg. ““prettification” or “pettification”?”
prettification
“Attempting to take control of my own experience is nigh on impossible. I suppose I will have to face the fact that Microsoft is intent on dumbing down the system to bolster their ability to control everything the user has access to.”
That is a separate matter not discussed here.
“If you are really tech-savvy, you do what Russinovich did, but it’s not trivial to do so.”
But you don’t actually have to use WinDbg to do what Russinovich did. You can use Process Explorer to do the same thing. You setup symbols correctly (I recommend using the MS symbol server), then look in the threads tab of the properties of a process. You will get a list of threads, select a thread and click Stack to get a stack just like the one you get when you use WinDbg.

]]> By: Carolyn http://www.itwriting.com/blog/62-mysterious-windows-vista-hang-explained.html/comment-page-1#comment-34872 Carolyn Mon, 17 Sep 2007 17:34:57 +0000 http://www.itwriting.com/blog/?p=62#comment-34872 "prettification" or <i>"pettification"? I've had Vista in a brand new beefy system for a week, and while there are some nice features, overall the experience has been an exercise in forbearance. Attempting to take control of my own experience is nigh on impossible. I suppose I will have to face the fact that Microsoft is intent on dumbing down the system to bolster their ability to control everything the user has access to. “prettification” or “pettification”?

I’ve had Vista in a brand new beefy system for a week, and while there are some nice features, overall the experience has been an exercise in forbearance.

Attempting to take control of my own experience is nigh on impossible. I suppose I will have to face the fact that Microsoft is intent on dumbing down the system to bolster their ability to control everything the user has access to.

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