procmon

Writing to a FileStream behaves strangely, as observed by process monitor

I'm using FileStream to write to a file, and watching the underlying system calls using Process Monitor. I'm having trouble with some file locking issues in a production deployment, so I'm looking at the details closely. This sample code: using (FileStream fs = new FileStream("c:\\temp\\test.txt", FileMode.Create, FileAccess.W...

Prefetching information in windows XP fails and abort the launching of my application

I compile my application on a windows XP SP3 machine. When it compiles, I try to lauch it, and windows replies me back with : Unable to start program 'xx'. This application has failed to start because the application configuration is incorrect. Reviex the manifest file for possible errors. Reinstalling the application may f...

7z file manager deletes temporary file for external editor

Hello! I am using a lot applications from portableapps.com for work, and more particularly 7-zip portable and gVim portable. I have set 7zip's external editor to gVimPortable.exe. It works perfectly when editing a file that is not inside an archive or compressed file… but it miserably fails when editing a file inside an archive or comp...

How do I make ProcMon show activity by the ASP.NET impersonated account?

I'm trying to debug a file permission problem. I'm running ASP.NET 2.0 on Windows 2003 32-bit standard edition. ASP.NET 2.0 is configured to impersonate my web sites anonymous accounts. In my machine.config file (in C:\WINDOWS\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v2.0.50727\CONFIG) I have: <identity impersonate="true" /> I know that ASP.NET reque...

Procmon notifying "PATH NOT FOUND" for web.config, that too at wrong location in a WCF Service

The environment is windows 2008 R2, X64, .Net 3.5 framework, vmware virtual machine While watching a worker process in ProcMon, I noticed the following error: Date & Time: 10/20/2010 3:21:26 PM Event Class: File System Operation: QueryOpen Result: PATH NOT FOUND Path: D:\Rxxxxxx\Wxx\Pxxx\xxxx.xxxxxx...