Application startup duration is an essential component of user experience. If you want to make sure that UX on your Windows machines is acceptable you need to monitor the time it takes for applications to start up. That, however, is not exactly easy – without uberAgent for Splunk. (more…)
uberAgent has been pretty good at monitoring applications for some time. It is capable of auto-grouping processes to applications and showing IOPS and other stats per application in addition to per process. All this gets even better today: beta 2, available now, adds application usage metering to the feature list. (more…)
Shadow keys have been around forever, since way before Terminal Services were renamed to Remote Desktop Services (does anybody use that name?). It seemed they would stay in the OS forever, too. Yet, when installing applications on Server 2008 R2 many people notice that the shadow key area does not get populated. Let us find […]
This article describes how to list all installed MSI packages. A more comprehensive listing of all applications displayed in Programs and Features can be obtained through our monitoring and analytics product uberAgent. How to easily create a list of all programs and (MSI) packages installed on a system for later processing? That sounds like a […]
In the previous article of this mini-series I described how to install Windows 7 x64 beta 1 into a virtual hard disk (VHD) file. In this post I will share some thoughts on what using Windows 7 x64 actually feels like. (more…)
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