SysInternals PortMon - "Error 6" Workaround
I was trying to use the SysInternals Portmon utility at work today, but it kept failing with the highly useful "Error 6" message. The error appeared when I tried to select a Windows XP PC for monitoring.
Searching around various forums, I noticed that some other people encountered this error, but I found no solution.
My own Workaround is this:
Run Portmon under an Administrator Account. Once.
I think that this tool needs to install some kind of 'hook' in the system so it can monitor the serial port. User accounts would not have the permissions to install this hook. After I ran this tool under the Administrator account one time, it ran under a less privileged account quite happily.
Hopefully this post will find its way through search engines to help some other techies. Please drop me a line if this helped you!
Labels: portmon, sysinternals, troubleshooting
posted by Curtis Mohan @ 7:41 p.m.
20 Comments:
Thank you for the advice, which perfectly healed the problem. I had the same problem, but Google hit your helping hint.
Also most grateful, saved me some head scratching!
Thanx, this fixed things for me also!
Helped me, too.
thanks soo much google found you and you answered my question
Me too, dank joe vely much!!
Well, no luck for me, now it says "error 0"
Thanks for the workaround. :)
Srini
Thank you for the useful post. :(
Awesome workaround.
Worked for me on W2K3 server. Thank you!
google brought me here:
Also works for Win7 Pro 32bit for local connection
thx
Tried this, but instead error 6 got error 2.:) W7 home prem.-64bit
Works on Windows Vista. Strange fix, but glad you found it. I never would have.
thx
thanks, solved the problem for me too!
Thank you. Your post was helpful.
Worked for me Vista 32bit. Thanks
If you are getting Error 2, then you are working a 64bit Window operating system. PortMon does not work on 64bit!
@Wolfgang, thanks for the good information on SysInternals Portmon Error 2!
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