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2,722

LUA Buglight tips: opening a report file

Aaron Margosis on Jun 18 2019 02:55 PM
First published on MSDN on Oct 01, 2010 I wish I had the time to write up proper documentation for LUA Buglight, the uti...
2,434

The Case of the Mysterious Law Manager Startup Error

Aaron Margosis on Jun 18 2019 02:55 PM
First published on MSDN on Apr 14, 2011 Getting Law Manager v2.
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FAQ: Where Do I Save Files, and How Exactly Do I Do That?

Aaron Margosis on Jun 18 2019 02:52 PM
First published on MSDN on Sep 25, 2011 The correct ways to identify folder paths to store files depends on the programm...
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TSSessions utility

Aaron Margosis on Jun 18 2019 02:52 PM
First published on MSDN on Jul 17, 2012 Part of my Sysinternals Primer: Gems presentation at TechEd last month covered t...
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Using NTFS Junctions to Fix Application Compatibility Issues on 64-bit Editions of Windows

Aaron Margosis on Jun 18 2019 02:52 PM
First published on MSDN on Dec 09, 2012 Executive SummaryThis paper describes a simple way to mitigate some types of app...
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VirtMemTest: a utility to exercise memory and other operations

Aaron Margosis on Jun 18 2019 02:52 PM
First published on MSDN on Jun 14, 2013 I wrote the first versions of VirtMemTest while working on the Windows Sysintern...
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Knowledge Base updates about UAC

Aaron Margosis on Jun 18 2019 02:51 PM
First published on MSDN on Jan 14, 2014 I should be working on the Sysinternals book, but there were a couple of KB arti...
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My Ian MacKaye / Dischord Records interview on WTJU.net

Aaron Margosis on Jun 18 2019 02:51 PM
First published on MSDN on Apr 01, 2014 A long time ago, before the introduction of the IBM Personal Computer, I was a D...
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The Case of the App Install Recorder

Aaron Margosis on Jun 18 2019 02:51 PM
First published on MSDN on Sep 04, 2014 Adapted from the forthcoming book, Troubleshooting with the Windows® Sysinternal...
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It rather involved being on the other side of this airtight hatchway: Unquoted service paths

Aaron Margosis on Jun 18 2019 02:51 PM
First published on MSDN on Nov 14, 2014 Or, Why most "Unquoted Service Paths" findings are unnecessarily alarmistIn late...
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LUA Buglight 2.3, with support for Windows 8.1 and Windows 10

Aaron Margosis on Jun 18 2019 02:51 PM
First published on MSDN on Jun 30, 2015 LUA Buglight is a utility for identifying admin-permissions issues (a.
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Troubleshooting with the Windows Sysinternals Tools - now available!

Aaron Margosis on Jun 18 2019 02:51 PM
First published on MSDN on Oct 24, 2016 Over three years ago, I announced that Mark Russinovich and I had signed a contr...
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The Case of the Reverting Office Theme (resolved with a long-running Procmon trace)

Aaron Margosis on Jun 18 2019 02:51 PM
First published on MSDN on Aug 14, 2017 Several times a day, all my Office apps kept reverting to the default “Colorful”...
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Implementing the Right Inertia in your Windows 10 Deployment Process: Defaulting to Progress vs. Stasis

Chris Jackson on Aug 14 2018 04:21 PM
One of the things I have noticed in my conversation with customers on deploying updates to Windows (whether quality or f...
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Defining App Tranches to Drive Your App Compat Testing

Chris Jackson on Aug 14 2018 04:21 PM
Way back in 2013 (wow, was it really that long ago?) I introduced a key taxonomy for testing apps:https://blogs.
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Defining Your Device Taxonomy

Chris Jackson on Aug 14 2018 04:21 PM
One of the most impactful blog posts I’ve seen is Aaron Margosis’ brilliant Sticking With Well Known and Proven Solution...
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Mitigating Shims as a Persistence Mechanism

Chris Jackson on Aug 14 2018 04:21 PM
App compat shims are a terrific tool for enabling you to modernize your operating system.
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My First Windows 10 Shim - Quicken 2017 on Build 15002

Chris Jackson on Aug 14 2018 04:21 PM
My luck finally ran out today - so far, I have had zero apps broken by Windows 10 build upgrades, but my streak ended to...
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Windows 10 App Compat Strategy

Chris Jackson on Aug 14 2018 04:21 PM
Learn how to take a pragmatic app compat approach, and keep your Windows devices up to date.
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The Windows 10 Browser Conundrum

Chris Jackson on Aug 14 2018 04:21 PM
One of the most common questions I’ve been seeing from folks who are migrating to Windows 10 is: “How do I go about hidi...
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Windows 10 App Compat Risk: Are You Behaving Commensurately?

Chris Jackson on Aug 14 2018 04:20 PM
The App Compat Army has had a bit of a break (well, at least I have), but there’s just no holding back the progress of t...
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Should I Enable Enterprise Mode Through the Tools Menu or an XML File?

Chris Jackson on Aug 14 2018 04:20 PM
We are in the final stretch for support for older versions of IE on Windows – January is now right around the corner! We...
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Data Science Suggests You Upgrade Your Browser to Be More Secure

Chris Jackson on Aug 14 2018 04:20 PM
There’s a lot of activity going on now that we are in the home stretch of trying to get everyone upgraded to the latest ...
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Updated Version of the Enterprise Mode Site List Manager Released

Chris Jackson on Aug 14 2018 04:20 PM
You may have noticed by now that Enterprise Mode continues to evolve – and as such, the tooling continues to evolve as w...
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Leveraging Internet Explorer Enterprise Tools to More Quickly Upgrade to IE11

Chris Jackson on Aug 14 2018 04:20 PM
As a reminder, to anyone who hasn’t noticed yet, we will be ending support for anything but the latest version of Intern...
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The Case of the Version Check Masquerading as a Feature Check

Chris Jackson on Aug 14 2018 04:20 PM
Got an email asking me to check out a forum application that was “behaving weird” on IE11, while behaving correctly on C...
1,729

Windows Compatibility Center Supports Windows 7, Windows 8, and Windows RT

Chris Jackson on Aug 14 2018 04:20 PM
While Microsoft isn’t the final arbiter on whether an application is “compatible” with any given version of Windows (see...
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Update on the Weight Watchers Mobile Site on IE10

Chris Jackson on Aug 14 2018 04:20 PM
Back in December, I blogged about the failure of Weight Watchers Mobile on IE10, which affects peoples’ fancy new Window...
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Finally a Great Weight Watchers Online Experience on Windows Phone and Windows RT!

Chris Jackson on Aug 14 2018 04:20 PM
The flurry of “hurrah!” emails was my cue that the fix removing m.
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Taxonomies for Categorizing Apps to Drive Your App Compat Project

Chris Jackson on Aug 14 2018 04:19 PM
One of the most important decisions you can make when it comes to running an app compat project is to determine how much...

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