For the past two days, our site remained inaccessible due to intermittent crash of the Apache and MySQL servers. I immediately wrote to MediaTemple support to know what’s going on with the server. They stated that this had to do with the amount of traffic, and the number of active connections to my site were high. This got me thinking as the crash occurred many times in the off-peak hours where the traffic per hour would be in few hundreds. When I explained this, MT support suggested that I tune up the Apache and MySQL servers. I did that and nothing improved. (more…)
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Wordpress Memory Usage & Website Outage Issues Resolved
Internet Explorer 8 Final Is Released to the Web
Internet Explorer 8 has gone final now. Microsoft made an announcement of the availability of Internet Explorer 8, the new web browser that offers the best solution for how people use the web today. Internet Explorer 8 runs on Windows XP SP2 and SP3, Windows Server 2003 SP2, Windows Server 2008, Windows Vista (RTM), SP1 and SP2. Some new features in Internet Explorer 8 include the following: (more…)
IconViewer: View Icons Within DLL Files via the Properties Sheet
IconViewer is a free Windows Explorer extension that lets you easily view, copy, and save icons contained within programs and libraries. IconViewer is a shell extension, a plugin for Windows Explorer. When you open the Properties box for a file containing icons, an extra Icons tab will appear. Clicking on this tab brings up the IconViewer property page, and it lists the icons that the file contains. (more…)
Ask the IE Support Team (askIE) Blog Launched
Check out the excellent askIE Blog, which will be used to discuss "all things" Internet Explorer. They talk about topics from a Core IE perspective, such as the IEAK and Group Policy all the way to programming techniques and solutions related to Internet Explorer. These blogs will come from Microsoft Support Engineers who specialize in Internet Explorer. (more…)
Easily Track Disk Space Usage Using WinDirStat
Are you receiving low disk space messages and wondering where has the free space gone? System Restore, Hibernation and Pagefile are the major occupants of disk space, but there could be several other big files and folders buried deep inside sub-directories. Try WinDirStat, a disk usage statistics viewer and cleanup tool for Windows. WinDirStat presents the files and directories in your hard disk in these three useful views. (more…)
How to Use Process Monitor to Track Events and Generate a Log File
Process Monitor is an excellent troubleshooting tool from Windows Sysinternals that displays the files and registry keys that applications access in real-time. The results can be saved to a log file, which you can send it to an expert for analyzing a problem and troubleshooting it. Here is a guide on how to capture registry and file system accesses by applications, and generate a log file using Process Monitor for further analysis. (more…)
WhoCrashed: Free Crash Dump Analyzer for Windows
Frequently experience application crashes, blue screen errors or sudden reboot problems? For every crash, a memory dump file will be generated by Windows, which can be analyzed using a debugger in order to determine the root cause for the crash. For those who don’t know how to use a debugger, download WhoCrashed Home Edition, a free Crash Dump Analyzer program from Resplendence Software. This program checks for drivers which have been crashing your computer by performing post-mortem Crash Dump analysis, and presents all gathered information in a comprehensible way. (more…)
How to Remove Scan Using Spybot-Search&Destroy Option From the Right-Click Menu
SpyBot Search & Destroy (v1.6.0 and higher) adds the entry Scan using Spybot-Search&Destroy to the right-click menu for files and folders. If you don’t plan to use the context menu option, you can remove it by editing the registry. (more…)
Image Resizer PowerToy Clone for Windows Vista
Soon after writing about Prish Image Resizer, I stumbled upon another excellent tool to resize images via the right-click menu in Windows. The utility is called Image Resizer PowerToy Clone, and is identical to the Image Resizer PowerToy for Windows XP. It works also on non-XP versions of Windows including Windows Vista. (more…)
How to Delete Old User Profile Folders Automatically in Windows Vista
You used the Windows 2000 Resource Kit Utility DelProf to delete old profile folders in Windows 2000/XP/Server 2003. You may not need it in Windows Vista, as Windows Vista includes a new Group Policy setting to automatically delete user profile folders that are older than a specified number of days. (more…)
