The Mystery of the HeapLeakDetection Registry Key

I was working on a case the other day, when I first came across a rather interesting registry key, HKLM\Software\Microsoft\RADAR\HeapLeakDetection\DiagnosedApplications. It caught my eye, because it has sub-keys for (what appears to be) applications executed on the system. This is what it looks like on my own system: It has quite a few sub-keys, and each one has a LastDetectionTime QWORD value, containing what appears to be a Windows FILETIME timestamp:...

July 20, 2022 · 6 min · 1070 words · Harel Segev