i don't know if it is related or what meant by strace log. but i couln't find an exact equivalent of strace to win, so maybe this helps "Frame","Module","Location","Address","Path" "0","ntoskrnl.exe","NtSetInformationProcess + 0x1c72","0xfffff80002f8ff42","C:\Windows\system32\ntoskrnl.exe" "1","ntoskrnl.exe","NtTraceControl + 0x2173","0xfffff80002f71277","C:\Windows\system32\ntoskrnl.exe" "2","ntoskrnl.exe","KeSynchronizeExecution + 0x3a43","0xfffff80002cc4993","C:\Windows\system32\ntoskrnl.exe" "3","ntdll.dll","NtCreateUserProcess + 0xa","0x771f082a","C:\Windows\System32\ntdll.dll" "4","kernel32.dll","CreateProcessInternalW + 0x87d","0x7709ae7d","C:\Windows\System32\kernel32.dll" "5","kernel32.dll","CreateProcessW + 0x6c","0x7709e81c","C:\Windows\System32\kernel32.dll" "6","shell32.dll","PathResolve + 0x175d","0x7fefda6df4d","C:\Windows\System32\shell32.dll" "7","shell32.dll","PathResolve + 0x14cb","0x7fefda6dcbb","C:\Windows\System32\shell32.dll" "8","shell32.dll","PathResolve + 0x136b","0x7fefda6db5b","C:\Windows\System32\shell32.dll" "9","shell32.dll","PathResolve + 0x1287","0x7fefda6da77","C:\Windows\System32\shell32.dll" "10","shell32.dll","PathResolve + 0x46e","0x7fefda6cc5e","C:\Windows\System32\shell32.dll" "11","shell32.dll","SHCreateShellItemArrayFromShellItem + 0xdac","0x7fefda82180","C:\Windows\System32\shell32.dll" "12","shell32.dll","SHCreateShellItemArrayFromShellItem + 0xc7f","0x7fefda82053","C:\Windows\System32\shell32.dll" "13","shell32.dll","OpenRegStream + 0xea8","0x7fefda83f28","C:\Windows\System32\shell32.dll" "14","shell32.dll","OpenRegStream + 0x10af","0x7fefda8412f","C:\Windows\System32\shell32.dll" "15","shell32.dll","OpenRegStream + 0xfe7","0x7fefda84067","C:\Windows\System32\shell32.dll" "16","shell32.dll","OpenRegStream + 0x7be","0x7fefda8383e","C:\Windows\System32\shell32.dll" "17","shell32.dll","OpenRegStream + 0x656","0x7fefda836d6","C:\Windows\System32\shell32.dll" "18","shell32.dll","Ordinal813 + 0x6ee8","0x7fefde5570c","C:\Windows\System32\shell32.dll" "19","shell32.dll","Ordinal813 + 0x7343","0x7fefde55b67","C:\Windows\System32\shell32.dll" "20","shlwapi.dll","SHRegGetUSValueW + 0x306","0x7feff43c8ea","C:\Windows\System32\shlwapi.dll" "21","kernel32.dll","BaseThreadInitThunk + 0xd","0x7709f56d","C:\Windows\System32\kernel32.dll" "22","ntdll.dll","RtlUserThreadStart + 0x21","0x771d3021","C:\Windows\System32\ntdll.dll"