Reading Notebook: 22-October-09
Comments in italics are mine and express my own views, thoughts and opinions
Windows Internals by M. Russinovich, D. Solomon and A. Ionescu:
REG_NONE and REG_QWORD (p. 251) - the former should have a purpose as a name switch
REG_LINK (pp. 251 - 252)
HKU\.DEFAULT as a local system profile (p. 253)
\Users location can be changed in HKLM\So\M\WNT\CV\ProfileList\ProfilesDirectory (p. 254)
BCDEdit is for HKLM\BCD, how to enable /DEBUG (pp. 255 - 257) - I also had to add more permissions to Administrators for Elements key to be able to add modifications. Before editing:
C:\Users\Administrator>bcdedit
Windows Boot Manager
--------------------
identifier {bootmgr}
device partition=C:
description Windows Boot Manager
locale en-US
inherit {globalsettings}
default {current}
displayorder {current}
toolsdisplayorder {memdiag}
timeout 30
resume No
Windows Boot Loader
-------------------
identifier {current}
After editing:
C:\Users\Administrator>bcdedit
Windows Boot Manager
--------------------
identifier {bootmgr}
device partition=C:
description Windows Boot Manager
locale en-US
inherit {globalsettings}
default {current}
displayorder {current}
toolsdisplayorder {memdiag}
timeout 30
resume No
Windows Boot Loader
-------------------
identifier {current}
device partition=C:
path \Windows\system32\winload.exe
description Microsoft Windows Server 2008
locale en-US
inherit {bootloadersettings}
osdevice partition=C:
systemroot \Windows
resumeobject {cc03280e-0762-11de-b63a-af7e963a0201}
nx OptOut
debug Yes
Pdh.dll (p. 260) - Typical stack trace in TS environments:
[...]
winsta!WinStationQueryInformationW+0x2a
perfts!CollectTSObjectData+0x12f
advapi32!QueryExtensibleData+0x617
advapi32!PerfRegQueryValue+0x536
advapi32!LocalBaseRegQueryValue+0x306
advapi32!RegQueryValueExW+0x96
pdh!GetSystemPerfData+0x83
pdh!GetQueryPerfData+0x7f
pdh!PdhiCollectQueryData+0x40
pdh!PdhCollectQueryData+0x42
[...]
- Dmitry Vostokov @ SoftwareGeneralist.com -
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