LWE10301 : Installing dheapmon for looking at your desktop heap

Symptom:

You need to install the dheapmon tool to view the desktop heap size on the system.

Cause:

none

Solution:

You need to download the tool from the microsoft website. The tool has to be entpacked and needs to be installed in a special way. (it need the debugging symbols for the installation)


The installation from the commandline:

Microsoft Windows XP [Version 5.1.2600]
(C) Copyright 1985-2001 Microsoft Corp.

F:\>"C:\Software\Desktop Heap Monitor\kktools\dheapmon8.1\x86\dheapmon.exe"
  Dheapmon - Software is not installed or Driver is not running (1012)

F:\>"C:\Software\Desktop Heap Monitor\kktools\dheapmon8.1\x86\dheapinst.exe"
  dheapinst - Win32k.sys symbol load error, Correct symbol required

F:\>"C:\Software\Desktop Heap Monitor\kktools\dheapmon8.1\x86\dheapinst.exe" -y
c:\Symbols
  dheapinst - Win32k.sys symbol load error, Correct symbol required

F:\>"C:\Software\Desktop Heap Monitor\kktools\dheapmon8.1\x86\dheapinst.exe" -y
srv*http://msdl.microsoft.com/download/symbols
  dheapinst - Desktop Heap Monitor installed successfully

F:\>"C:\Software\Desktop Heap Monitor\kktools\dheapmon8.1\x86\dheapmon.exe"
Desktop Heap Information Monitor Tool (Version 8.1.2925.0)
Copyright (c) Microsoft Corporation.  All rights reserved.
  Dheapmon - Software is not installed or Driver is not running (2)


To load the driver you need to do it -l

Dheapmon -l

now you loaded the driver and can use the tool:

C:\WINDOWS\system32\kktools>dheapmon.exe
Desktop Heap Information Monitor Tool (Version 8.1.2925.0)
Copyright (c) Microsoft Corporation.  All rights reserved.
-------------------------------------------------------------
  Session ID:    0 Total Desktop: (  5824 KB -    8 desktops)

  WinStation\Desktop            Heap Size(KB)    Used Rate(%)
-------------------------------------------------------------
  WinSta0\Default                    3072             15.3
  WinSta0\Disconnect                   64              4.5
  WinSta0\Winlogon                    128              9.2
  Service-0x0-3e7$\Default            512             27.5
  Service-0x0-3e4$\Default            512              6.8
  Service-0x0-3e5$\Default            512              6.8
  SAWinSta\SADesktop                  512              0.5
  Service-0x0-fea2$\Default           512              1.1
-------------------------------------------------------------

C:\WINDOWS\system32\kktools>

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