Monthly Archives: September 2015

Case of the Win10 Windows Performance Recorder Trace That Wouldn’t Stop

Posted on September 8, 2015 by chentiangemalc

Disk space kept rapidly disappearing on my C: drive… Using WinDirStat (https://windirstat.info/) it was evident majority was taken up by 40GB+ ETL files in my TEMP folder. Running wpr –status showed no traces running Searching registry with RegScanner ( http://www.nirsoft.net/utils/regscanner.html … Continue reading →

Posted in Debugging, Windows 10, Windows Performance Recorder | Tagged | 1 Comment

Debugging / Viewing Windows Update Log on Windows 10 Insider Builds

Posted on September 3, 2015 by chentiangemalc

Having confirmed with WinDbg team currently insider builds don’t get public symbols unless it is a major release (They are looking into a solution….) How are we going to debug anything on bleeding edge systems “Fast Track Updates” in the … Continue reading →

Posted in Fiddler, ProcMon, WinDbg, Windows 10 | Tagged | 5 Comments

Case of the Object Is Not Set To An Instance of an Object–.NET Patching

Posted on September 3, 2015 by chentiangemalc

Continuing our series on patching .NET code without source ( https://chentiangemalc.wordpress.com/2015/07/31/case-of-the-black-background-window-net-patching/ ) A .NET application which worked fine on Windows 7, started throwing an exception when opening an image in Windows 10’s default editor. However the images still opened OK. … Continue reading →

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