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Example 11: Enabling Page Heap Verification

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The following commands enable full and standard page heap verification for myapp.exe, a fictitious program.

The first command enables standard page heap verification for myapp.exe. It uses the /p parameter to enable page heap for a process. By default, /p enables standard page heap.

gflags /p /enable myapp.exe

The following commands enable full page heap verification for the myapp.exe program. Although these commands create different settings in the registry, they are all functionally equivalent to selecting the Enable page heap check box for the myapp.exe image file in the Global Flags dialog box. These methods can be used interchangeably.

gflags /p /enable myapp.exe /full
gflags /i myapp.exe +hpa
gflags /i myapp.exe +02000000

The following commands disable full or standard page heap verification for the myapp.exe program, regardless of the command or dialog box method used to enable page heap verification.

gflags /p /disable myapp.exe
gflags /i myapp.exe -hpa
gflags /i myapp.exe -02000000

Note   When using the /debug or /kdebug parameters, use the /p /disable parameters to turn off the page heap verification (not the /i -hpa parameters). The /p /disable parameters disable page heap verification and delete registry entries that the debugger reads.