[Bug 5322] Both MSVC6 and MSVB6 installers die very early

[Wine Bugs]

http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5322





------- Additional Comments From dank at kegel.com  2006-24-06 08:55 -------
Performance stuff seems to be a big hairy mess, so maybe we should
just find out exactly what counters the installer is accessing
and fake them.  (It might be checking for RAM, or it might be checking
for whether something fancy is installed.)

For future reference, here are some random links that might or might
not be helpful.  They're probably massive overkill.
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en-us/perfmon/base/how_the_dll_interfaces_with_a_performance_monitor_application.asp
has some info about HKEY_PERFORMANCE_DATA
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/Q179456
has some info about "extensible counters" (apparantly that's what
the Perflib\009 is).
http://www.tencorp.com/salestip.nsf/d5510884f791efbd8525681e0000d544/ab3fdff3d990cd6185256efa0053bff1!OpenDocument
mentions that the 009 is a language code (!); German is 007.

Three pages describe how to rebuild the performance counters on corruption: 
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;267831
http://www.jsifaq.com/SUBI/tip4000/rh4095.htm 
http://chi.dynodns.net:8080/downloads/Performace%20counters%20Tool/Performace%20counters%20Tool/Performance%20Counter%20Rebuild%20Wizard.doc

http://www.jkrb.de/jmk/docs/Perl5/PerfLib/PerfLib.html
is a perl module to access some of this stuff.
http://python.cofman.dk/windows/win32/win32pdhquery_tutorial.html
is a python program to access some of this stuff (via pdh.dll).
http://msdn.microsoft.com/archive/en-us/dnarperfmo/html/msdn_pdhlib.asp
describes how to use pdh.dll and has a sample program.
http://www.codeproject.com/system/ntenumthreads.asp is another sample program.
http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Cookbook/Python/Recipe/303339 ditto.

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