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Hi,

I posted this question on an article just now but I don't know how many people would see it there:
Process Information and Notifications using WMI[^]

So anyway. Many of the concepts I am using are explained in the article but here is my problem:

It just so happens that I have implemented almost identical code in a testing process monitor I have written. I use the code to keep an eye on any child (and [great]*grand kids) of a test process I have started. I do this because I need to know when the entire process completes and so I can kill any child processes if the test times out.

This code works fine 99.9% of the time but I am getting some rare errors specifically on Windows 7 computers and servers.
testing the code on my own windows 7 machine often gives me most common error which is "Exception from HRESULT: 0xFFFFFFFF" but LastWin32Error is 1008:
0x000003F0
ERROR_NO_TOKEN
An attempt was made to reference a token that does not exist.

Here is the code that triggers the error:
C#
    const string queryString = "SELECT *" +
                               "  FROM __InstanceOperationEvent " +
                               "WITHIN  " + pol +
                               " WHERE TargetInstance ISA 'Win32_Process' ";

    MachineName = ".";
    // You could replace the dot by a machine name to watch to that machine
    const string scope = @"\\.\root\CIMV2";

    // create the watcher and start to listen

    _watcher = new ManagementEventWatcher(scope, queryString);
_watcher.EventArrived += WatcherOnEventArrived;
    _watcher.Start(); // ERROR
    _watcher.WaitForNextEvent();


Is would appear that once this error occurs once then it is almost certain to happen the next several times I try, so try-catch-retry code doesn't help.

Any ideas what I can do to get by this or look into it further?

Thanks
A
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Updated 5-Mar-13 0:02am
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Jegan Thiyagesan 5-Mar-13 7:06am    
Hi,
I tried your source code in my x64 W7 machine, I did not see any exceptions yet. I even enabled all the exceptions but could not reproduce.

Regards
Jegan
Andy Lanng 19-Mar-13 12:35pm    
I usually have to run the code several times before I get the error myself but when this is in use it could be called many times over and over again (not from the same instance)

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