Archive for January, 2010

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FltEnlistInTransaction behaviour

Posted by Satya Das
January 13, 2010

FltEnlistInTransaction is a filter manager function that file system mini-filters can use in Vista+ platforms to subscribe to relevant transaction notifications. It is declared in fltkernel.h as follows The idea is when a transaction is committed for example, mini-filter transaction callback is called

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Memory dumping on Windows 7

Posted by Satya Das
January 1, 2010

It seems collecting memory dumps on Windows 7 has its own challenges. First things first – engineers always get the best information from a full memory dump but Windows 7 defaults dump type to Kernel Memory Dump. One of the first things to prepare machines for testing or development is changing the dump type to [...]