Desktop Heap Monitor Version 8.1

Brief Description

Microsoft Support Professionals Toolkit for Windows
The Desktop Heap Monitor is a tool that examines usage of desktop heap.

Overview

The Desktop Heap Monitor is a tool that examines usage of desktop heap.

WIN32 subsystem has internal heap area known as "desktop heap." When you run a large number of Windows-based programs, "Out Of Memory" error messages appear when you attempt to start new programs or try to use programs that are already running, even though you still have plenty of physical and pagefile memory available.

This behavior can occur if the desktop heap in the WIN32 subsystem is depleted (see KB#126962).

By using the Desktop Heap Monitor, you can examine how much desktop heap is consumed without interrupting the running system.

Change from the Version 8.0

Added support for x64 and Itanium version of Windows

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System Requirements

Supported Operating Systems: Windows 2000 Service Pack 3; Windows 2000 Service Pack 4; Windows Server 2003; Windows Server 2003 Itanium-based editions; Windows Server 2003 Service Pack 1; Windows Server 2003 x64 editions; Windows XP Service Pack 1; Windows XP Service Pack 2

You need the correct version of the Win32k.sys symbol file via Microsoft symbol server, or at local disk for installation.

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Instructions

Click the Download button on this page to start the download. Do one of the following:

To start the installation immediately, click Open or Run this program from its current location

To copy the download to your computer for installation at a later time, click Save or Save this program to disk.

To install the Desktop Heap Monitor, run the DesktopHeapMonitor8_1_2925_0.exe package. After you accept the Software License Terms, all necessary files are copied to the C:\kktools\dheapmon8.1 folder.

Go to C:\kktools\dheapmon8.1\Architecture folder or the folder you specified in the previous step, and run dheapinst.exe. You need to give dheapinst.exe correct symbol file location. Please refer dheapmon.chm for detailed installation step.

Prior to starting and using the Desktop Heap Monitor, please be sure to read the readme.htm file, which is located in the C:\kktools\dheapmon8.1 folder.

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Additional Information

Microsoft and partners are jointly developing tools to improve Windows supportability. This joint-development project started from 1998 and has counted 8th phase already. At phase 8 project, the following partners are participating in the project.

Fujitsu Limited.

Hitachi, Ltd.

Nihon Unisys, Ltd.

NTT Data Corporation

Toshiba Corporation

Tools are owned and released by Microsoft Corporation under the name of "Microsoft Support Professionals Toolkit for Windows".

Related KB:#914216
"Error message that is similar to the following when you try to install the Desktop Heap Monitor tool: "dheapinst - Win32k.sys symbol load error, correct symbol required"

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