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Lately I have started having problems with the entire Windows Explorer shell becoming unresponsive.   I have a new Dell Latitude D810 laptop with the factory install of Windows XP with SP-2, so I am surprised that I could have such a problem.

I highly recommend this article by Rick Strahl of West Wind if you are trying to debug IIS 5/6 with ASP.NET or simply wanting to learn more about how web requests are processed. 

Based upon the number of comments It seems that my last post on this topic struck a nerve with some of the weblogs.asp.net bloggers as well as Telligent.   I read the many comments and other posts on this topic, and even had a little more to say in my post's comments.     I don't want to give ScottW and Telligent too much grief over this, they have worked hard on the implementation over the years and I applaud them for it.  However, when discussing this site, you really have to break the discussion into 2 parts; the Engine/Codebase, and the Blog Site.

Shortly after the end of PDC, Microsoft briefly posted a huge list of all the Hands-On Labs that were available during PDC.  Unfortunately, while I was downloading them they removed the files and links from the CommNet site, and later I had a HD crash and even lost those.

Back in the days when this blog site was "dotnetweblogs.com" it was exciting and fun because it was new and ever-changing.   Like watching your niece or nephew growing up, it was fun to see the improvements and changes that Scott introduced to the site each month (sometimes each week or day).  Not that blogs were new, but I was new to blogs, this was a new blog engine, and it was written in .NET and dedicated to .NET which made it uber-cool. 

I keep finding myself forwarding links from Rico Mariani's blog whenever I am involved in troubleshooting .NET bugs or assessing performance in managed code.

I recently was referred to this tool by a MS rep while troubleshooting some IIS Hangs and Crashes.  It is still in Beta, but you can grab it via the Guest ID "DebugDiag" at http://beta.microsoft.com :

When running into this problem, I have had some success working-around it by increasing the value on the fileMappingSize attribute on the performanceCounters element within the config file.