Performance Analysis Tool (PAL) PerfMon Templates Don’t Load in Win10

Using Performance Analysis Tool (http://pal.codeplex.com) on Windows 10 build 10130 I had exported a PerfMon template for Calculated Disk IOPS:

 

However when attempting to import into PerfMon on Windows 10 the Next and Finish buttons are disabled.

 

If we hit “Back” arrow, then forward again, the Finish button is enabled, but clicking it results in error:

When attempting to create the Data Collector Set the following system error occurred:
Not enough storage is available to complete this operation.

Using Rohitab API Monitor http://www.rohitab.com/apimonitor with Windows Application UI Development monitoring on, I attached ApiMonitor to mmc.exe process hosting PerfMon.msc just before I imported the template.

We find this function call:

#    Time of Day    Thread    Module    API    Return Value    Error    Duration
636128    2:00:46.910 PM    3    PLA.dll    LoadStringW ( 0x00007ffeb0bf0000, 10027, 0x000000000904b200, 1024 )    0    0 = The operation completed successfully.     0.0000226

 

Looking at MSDN documentation for LoadString we can see it returns 0 if the resource does not exist.

https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/ms647486(v=vs.85).aspx

Using a simple test script  based on the one here http://powershell.com/cs/media/p/11070.aspx

We can on Server 2008 R2 the values are there:

However on Windows 10 :

Dumping all resource strings in the DLL, we find in Windows 10, these strings are no longer present at all.

Sample script here:  https://onedrive.live.com/redir?resid=E1A3C870740A073D!28213&authkey=!AGecn7l_8oE95uU&ithint=file%2czip

So we changed the XML file to have a blank description.

From

to

Now it imports fine…