Archive for December, 2007
VIDEO_TDR_FAILURE BSODs on my Vista laptop
The other day, I was rudely interrupted by a VIDEO_TDR_FAILURE BSOD on my 32-bit Vista laptop and with all the other things I needed to get done, I did not get a chance to investigate the failure until Santa gave us all, a much needed break. One of the most impressive things to note about the new [...]
More HighPid fun
Recently I blogged about HighPid, a tool to generate high PID (process id) and TID (thread id). Although this tool considers IDs high if they are more than 2^16, I wondered if I can get the IDs to be real high. Well after recompiling and running the tool I could not generate IDs beyond around 300,000. [...]
HighPid – A Tool To Generate High Process And Thread IDs
When a process is created in Windows (or Unix for that matter) it has a system wide unique identifier called Process ID (PID). The same thing happens for each and every thread in the system. Each thread ends up with a system wide unique identifier referred to as Thread ID (TID). PID/TIDs come from the same [...]
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