What is the difference between FIQ and IRQ interrupt system?

ARM calls FIQ the fast interrupt, with the implication that IRQ is normal priority. In any real system, there will be many more sources of interrupts than just two devices and there will therefore be some external hardware interrupt controller which allows masking, prioritization etc. of these multiple sources and which drives the interrupt request … Read more

Windows Server 2008 R2 – RDSH – Registry bloat with Samsung Universal Print Driver

I had the exact same issue and can confirm it is fixed in the new version of Samsung Universal Print Driver 2 (2.50.5) . I was also running 2.50.2 and the key in question was using 275MB. Simply uninstalling the old version and installing the new version on the server (I did not update any … Read more

What is the reason for choosing a different print processor?

Way back at the beginning of Windows, Windows printing was not considered reliable. The standard to which it was being compared was NetWare (this was the 1990’s after all), which at the time had a good reputation for reliability. Because of this printer manufacturers created their own Print Processors under the impression that: They could … Read more

Virtual Sound Card for Windows Server? [closed]

You have a lot of variants. https://github.com/duncanthrax/scream Scream – Virtual network sound card for Microsoft Windows http://virtualsoundcarddriver.com/ Virtual Sound Card Driver https://www.e2esoft.com/vsc/ e2eSoft VSC is a Sound Card Emulator https://www.vb-audio.com/Cable/ VB-CABLE is a virtual audio device working as virtual audio cable. It creates Virtual Sound Card https://vac.muzychenko.net/en/ Virtual Audio Cable (VAC) is an audio bridge … Read more

Is there a quick way to see what filesystem filter drivers are loaded on Windows 2008?

It doesn’t provide much, but here it is: C:\Windows\system32>fltmc filters Filter Name Num Instances Altitude Frame —————————— ————- ———— —– MpFilter 12 328000 0 luafv 1 135000 0 FileInfo 12 45000 0 C:\Windows\system32>fltmc volumes Dos Name Volume Name FileSystem Status —————————— ————————————— ———- ——– \Device\Mup Remote C: \Device\HarddiskVolume2 NTFS D: \Device\HarddiskVolume3 NTFS \Device\HarddiskVolume1 NTFS \Device\HarddiskVolumeShadowCopy12 … Read more