Monthly Archive for September, 2009

Creating Your Very Own Office 2007 Ribbon – No Programming Necessary!

The famous German IT magazine c’t has recently published an article about creating your own and modifying existing ribbons in Office 2007. Not again, you may be thinking. But the article shows how a simple DLL helps without any knowledge of programming.

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Performance Monitoring Part 4 – Memory Management

In the last posts of this series I gave an overview why performance monitoring is important and that it is not a trivial subject, that terminal servers are an entirely different matter and they require special attention and, in the last post, how to monitor the processor and related corners of the operating system.

Continuing my way through the operating system, I’d like to take an extensive look at the memory subsystem in this post.

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