Re: My old CCC GUI refuses to show up. :(

In alt.windows7.general Paul <[email protected]> wrote:
> Ant wrote:

> > 
> > Do you mean tracking ccc.exe process only? If so, then 2.4 MB 
> > http://zimage.com/~ant/temp/ProcMon3.61cccEXE.7z (too much information 
> > for me -- yikes).

> Impressively complicated for such a small trace file.

> It's to be expected, that it looks like a slow motion train wreck.

> I can see a "presentation" file from .NET, reading the
> font registry entry. There is no sign of anything "wobbling"
> at that instant. The framework at that moment, hasn't
> started to evaluate the path info or for that matter
> the font file types. If it parses the path and barfs
> part way through (without attempting to open any files),
> procmon won't have a record of that. This is not GDB, it
> doesn't record instruction execution.

> One thing that's weird, is CCC.exe itself goes looking for
> fonts on its own, like segoe ui font and some other stuff.
> It doesn't look like WPF does all the fonts for the control
> panel.

> So far, I haven't managed to find a "smoking gun" trace entry
> where something fails. There's quite a lot of threading.
> Right up until the end, CCC is reading registry entries,
> there is DLL after DLL being loaded, and so on. You
> don't really see anything "stumble" over a period
> of 15 or 20 seconds or so.

> The only real puzzler (a comprehension problem on my part),
> is I spotted an entry on the stack that has no metadata.
> I *hate* when Windows does this. I've seen a few weird ones
> like this before. Like, I've had processes in Task Manager,
> missing metadata and still running. The operating system
> should *shoot dead* shit like this! No metadata - no cycles.
> That should be the policy.

> Why is excrement like this allowed to run ?

> Is it malware ?

> What is it ?

> https://i.postimg.cc/wMvbQrz3/weird-stack-entry.gif

> It's unlikely the stack will unwind enough to hit that,
> but it still lacks precision and should be put out of
> its misery. This is a computer, it's not a slumber party.

> Well, now I don't know what to do next. Some code is
> failing, but I'm not seeing a splatter. It looks like the
> eventvwr this time, provides more info than tracing does.

Oh well. I am going to live without CCC for now. I rarely used it. I 
only used it to look at its statistics like fans, change 3D settings, 
etc. https://www.msi.com/Landing/afterburner works decently like CCC 
since my video card is MSI. Too bad it doesn't let me change 3D 
settings. I forget what other stuff CCC had.

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