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Support for user providers on Windows 7 #10

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@Donpedro13

While support for user providers was completed in #8, this implementation doesn't work on Windows 7.

The reason for this is technical and simple: on Win 8 and later, a kernel session can also act as a user session. That is:

  • multiple instances can exist at once
  • they can have custom names
  • user providers can be enabled

On Windows 7, extra effort would be required to support user providers. Namely:

  • creating an extra (user) session
  • creating a separate thread and TraceRelogger object
  • an extra merge step at the end (merging the kernel and user ETL files)

As this would add a separate code path, I decided the extra complexity is not worth it. While Windows 7's general market share is still significant, its support will end really soon (2020).

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