Exclude an exe from superfetch/prefetch

Anonymous
2020-09-02T19:08:46+00:00

Hi!

As I know it prefetch/superfetch creates .pf files for all executables that were previously runned.

As such I don't want windows to make a specific executable's .pf file through prefetch because I don't want to disable  prefetch entirely for this.

Any help would be gratefull.Including registry edits if an entry could be successfully made that excludes the exe.

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  1. Anonymous
    2020-09-05T21:57:22+00:00

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  2. Anonymous
    2020-09-05T22:31:44+00:00

    Ugh, heap corruption. This is can be difficult to analyze. Would need to enable heap verification and do a complete dump of the process, not a minidump. Before we get into that, can you update your nvidia drivers? It looks like you are using the May build from this year. That may be quick fix.

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  3. Anonymous
    2020-09-05T22:37:23+00:00

    I don't think it would be necessary cuz the game is already old(last update for this game came in 2017 I think)also I can't update my Drivers for now cuz it will take time plus I have a very important schedule going on.

    Also this crash was happening everytime in 2018 got frustrated and deleted the game,then I tried in 2019 but still no luck and finally in 2020 still same so I thought I could ask u cuz I am just lost.I cant bear this crash any longer.If u want the big dump i can send u now.But please be a little quick cuz after now I may not be able to discuss this problem with u(which I desperately want!)due to tight upcoming schedule.

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  4. Anonymous
    2020-09-05T22:52:14+00:00

    Grab gflags.exe from here: https://1drv.ms/u/s!ApX1j7el8hb3hB5m6tFQ59eZIpr...

    Drop it in the same folder as procdump.

    Start the game and get to point before it crashes.

    From elevated command line go to the procdump folder and run c:\gflags.exe /p /enable DarkSoulsIII.exe /full

    When that command completes, run c:\gflags.exe /p

    Then start procdump with procdump -ma DarkSoulsIII.exe

    Go back to game and crash it.

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  5. Anonymous
    2020-09-05T23:08:12+00:00

    Ok so  it first said Image file execution option heap page is enabled

    Then page heap enabled with flags enabled 

    Then as soon as I ran procdump -ma command

    The game instantly crashed and dumped file got created not letting me to reproduce the original crash when closing the game

    Also Will the Image file execution heap would run always in the background or was it just one time process like procdump is?

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