


We examine the features of the Android Operating System, and highlight exactly what it inherits from its Linux core, as well as how it diverges with its idiosyncrasies and "Android-isms". Options Menu - Symbols, History Depth, Profiling and Network Addresses - Command Line - Refer to the book, help file and the dialog - Columns - in particular, the Relative Time and Duration columns - Next episode, examples.This course, modeled after Jonathan's Levin's seminal works of the same name, discusses the architecture of Android - covering both its design and its implementation. Timeline: - Episode Overview - Launching & EULA - Events traced - Sysinternals Administrator's Reference - File Menu - Open, Save, Backing Files/Pagefile, Capture Events and Configuration - Edit Menu - Copy, Find, Highlight, Bookmarks, Auto Scroll and Clear Display - Events Menu - Jump To, Search Online, (Quick) Filtering, Filemon/Regmon heritage, Highlight &Filter dialogs - Filter Menu - Advanced Output, Load/Save/Organize Filters, Drop Filtered Events - Tools Menu - Next episode. Part 2 (next week) goes though a wide variety of examples showing how different techniques are required for different investigations. Part 1 (this week) covers the tool itself. As coined by David Solomon - "When in doubt, run Process Monitor". Process Monitor can be used to troubleshoot nearly all types of issues. The logging allows you to go from a holistic view all the way down to the function in the stack that initiated an event. Process Monitor allows you to view the File, Registy, Network, Process and Profiling details of the processes running on the computer. In this 2 part episode of Defrag Tools, Andrew and I walk you through Sysinternals Process Monitor.
