How to reset peak memory size etc. in PROCESS_MEMORY_COUNTERS in Windows

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Published on 2010-04-13T08:34:56Z Indexed on 2010/04/13 9:23 UTC
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In PROCESS_MEMORY_COUNTERS_EX, there are some Peak metrics. Is there a way to reset those metrics?

What I really need is to reset PeakPagefileUsage, i.e., to make it reflect the peak starting from now rather than from the moment of launching the process.

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