A bootable Windows 7 install that consumes a mere 69MB of disk space has been shared online. However, it isn't a very ...

The Windows system consists of thousands of files. Many of them have strange names, others have extensions that most users have never seen before. Normally you do not need to worry about these files.

Windows Update uses Event Tracing for Windows (ETW) to generate diagnostic logs in Windows 11/10, and save them in the .etl file format. The reason why this has been done is that it reduces disk space ...

Does anyone have any tool(s) to do this? I've got any number of AIX, Linux, and Windows machines that I need to tail logs files from. I often have to correlate them at the same time, from different ...

TL;DR Introduction When responding to an incident, logs provide a vital record of events within a system and serve as a critical source of evidence during an incident investigation. They help identify ...

If a Windows upgrade has ever gone sideways on you, you know how vague and unhelpful the error messages can be. Here are my go-to troubleshooting tricks when that happens.

I'm trying to trouble shoot a crazy installation issue installing a published app on WTS. For the life of me I cannot figure out why the Microsoft Installer keeps rolling back and the only thing I can ...

Junk files are files that remain on your computer after a task has been performed. Sometimes, Windows or some program needs to create temporary files while doing some task and then forgets to delete ...

Starting today, Windows 10 users are finding that the /sfc scannow feature is no longer working and that it states it found, but could not fix, corrupted Windows Defender PowerShell files. The Windows ...

We recently experienced an installation of Windows 10 with system files that were corrupt to the point that certain sections of the Settings app would automatically close when being opened, among ...

If you're having driver problems, you can use this guide to log the loaded and unloaded drivers during boot, which you can use in your troubleshooting process. When you purchase through links on our ...