Comments on: WTF is my @#$% machine doing!? How to figure this out. http://blog.mikefullerton.com/2007/02/24/wtf-is-my-machine-doing-how-to-figure-this-out/ photography. wisecracks. life. Tue, 09 Feb 2010 05:41:01 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: u http://blog.mikefullerton.com/2007/02/24/wtf-is-my-machine-doing-how-to-figure-this-out/comment-page-1/#comment-3206 u Wed, 13 May 2009 00:06:00 +0000 http://www.mikefullerton.com/blog/2007/02/24/WTFIsMyMachineDoingHowToFigureThisOut.aspx#comment-3206 Easiest and quickest and cheapest solution first: try and see if Xubuntu floats your boat. Hardest solution is to fight Vista. The problem is that it's soo fat that not even Microsoft have a complete overview of all the things it does. (They built it too fast for them to keep track) Easiest and quickest and cheapest solution first: try and see if Xubuntu floats your boat.

Hardest solution is to fight Vista. The problem is that it’s soo fat that not even
Microsoft have a complete overview of all the things it does. (They built it too
fast for them to keep track)

]]> By: Presson http://blog.mikefullerton.com/2007/02/24/wtf-is-my-machine-doing-how-to-figure-this-out/comment-page-1/#comment-468 Presson Thu, 01 Mar 2007 20:50:44 +0000 http://www.mikefullerton.com/blog/2007/02/24/WTFIsMyMachineDoingHowToFigureThisOut.aspx#comment-468 the clue is the 2nd directory location. Prefetch is an area windows keeps tidy to make apps launch faster. C:\Windows\Prefetch\SEARCHPROTOCOLHOST.EXE-AFAD3EF9.pf SUCCESS Offset: 0, Length: 47,060, Priority: Normal 276139 2:04:15.4285546 PM svchost.exe 1116 WriteFile This entry is part of the WBEM services. The repository stores states of all things in your system. look up WBEM or WMI for more info. 278337 2:04:24.6788616 PM svchost.exe 1136 ReadFile C:\Windows\System32\wbem\Repository\INDEX.BTR SUCCESS Offset: 2,023,424, Length: 8,192 the clue is the 2nd directory location. Prefetch is an area windows keeps tidy to make apps launch faster.
C:\Windows\Prefetch\SEARCHPROTOCOLHOST.EXE-AFAD3EF9.pf SUCCESS Offset: 0, Length: 47,060, Priority: Normal
276139 2:04:15.4285546 PM svchost.exe 1116 WriteFile

This entry is part of the WBEM services. The repository stores states of all things in your system. look up WBEM or WMI for more info.

278337 2:04:24.6788616 PM svchost.exe 1136 ReadFile C:\Windows\System32\wbem\Repository\INDEX.BTR SUCCESS Offset: 2,023,424, Length: 8,192

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